Courses Taught

University of British Columbia
Graduate

• Biopolitics (Fall 2021)
• What is Narrative? (Fall 2020)
• Sex Politics and German Film History (Spring 2020)

 
Undergraduate

• Putting German Studies into Action (Spring 2023)
• Gender and Nation (Spring 2021)
• German Cinema: The Sexual Politics of Weimar Cinema (Fall 2018; Spring 2020; Fall 2020; Spring 2022; Fall 2022)
• German Literature Before 1900: Rebellion, Failure, and Other Queer Ways of Being (Fall 2018)
• Great Works of Literature from Central, Eastern & Northern Europe: Empire & Mass Media (Spring 2019)
• Bad Feelings: The Literary Lives of Anger, Boredom, and Jealousy (Fall 2019; Fall 2021; Spring 2023)

Sam Houston State University

• German Media Cultures (Fall 2017)
• Co-Taught/conceptualized Honors Dialogues Seminar on Fake News (Fall 2017)
• Crime & German Film (Spring 2017)
• Co-Taught/conceptualized Honors Dialogues Seminar on #BlackLivesMatter (Spring 2017)
• Co-Taught Honors Dialogues Seminar on Cultural History of Sex (Fall 2016)
• The Cultural Legacy of the Brothers Grimm (Spring 2016, Spring 2018)
• Elementary German II (Spring 2016, Summer 2016 Online, Spring 2017, Spring 2018)
• Intermediate German II (Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018)
• Elementary German I (Fall 2015, Summer 2016 Online, Fall 2016, Fall 2017)
• Intermediate German I (Fall 2015, Fall 2016, Fall 2017)

Washington University in St. Louis

• German Literature and the Modern Era Discussion Section Instructor (Spring 2014)
• Topics in Holocaust Studies: Children in the Shadow of the Swastika, Teaching Assistant (Fall 2013)
• German Reading Knowledge for Graduate Students II (Spring 2012, Summer 2014)
• Introduction to Film Studies Discussion Section Instructor (Fall 2011)
• Basic German Core Course I (Spring 2011)
• Basic German Core Course II (Fall 2010)
• Teaching Internship: East German Literature after 1989 (Franziska Bomski, Spring 2012)
• Teaching Internship: Friedrich Schiller: Freedom/Love (Paul M. Lützeler, Spring 2012)
• Teaching Internship: International Modernisms (Anca Parvulescu, Fall 2011)

 
University of Illinois at Chicago

• Intermediate German I (Summer 2009)
• Elementary German II (Spring 2009)
• German Myth and Fairy Tales, Teaching Assistant (Fall 2008, Spring 2009)
• Intermediate German II (Summer 2008)
• Intensive Intermediate German (Spring 2008)
• Elementary German I (Fall 2007, Fall 2008) 

Teaching Interests

All Levels of Language Instruction in German (personal favorite being beginner’s German)
German Literary Cultures of the Eighteenth-Twenty-First-Centuries
German Film History (Beginnings-Contemporary Cinema); International Silent Film; Film Theory
Feminist and Queer Film Studies
German Queer Studies