Teaching

Currently teaching (Fall 2024)

In spring 2025, I am on sabbatical and therefore not teaching. In fall 2024, I taught a reduced load as I was on FMLA.

ENGL 425: Shakespeare (and performance, and race)

This class introduces William Shakespeare’s works through the lenses of performance studies and race. In addition to reading each of the major Shakespearean genres—poetry, tragedy, history, comedy, and romance—we hope to attend two performances at the Cincinnati Shakespeare Company and a staged reading on campus. Throughout the class, we will consider not only the historical context of the works and their critical heritage, but also what it means to encounter them in theatrical productions today, and how we can enhance our appreciation of the texts through critical race theory and scholarship. In addition to spirited participation in class discussion and a presentation, students will write in a variety of forms, including an online discussion forum, wikis, performance reviews, creative work, and research-driven essays. All the coursework is designed to strengthen students’ critical reading, writing, and thinking skills.

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Courses Taught Previously at Xavier

• CORE 100: First-Year Seminar:
  • Villains and Anti-Heroes
  • Difficult Women
• English 115: Rhetoric
• English 205: Literature and the Moral Imagination: Literature of Diversity
• English 210: Methods Workshop
• English 375: Literature and the Arts in Ireland
• English 361: Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Women’s Literacy
• English 376: Literature and the Arts in Britain, cross-listed as English 205: Literature and the Moral Imagination: Focus on Literature and Place
• English 425: Shakespeare
• English 429: Renaissance Drama: Revenge on the Early Modern Stage
• English 430: Seventeenth-Century Literature: Renaissance Heroisms
• English 499: Senior Seminar: Adaptation and Appropriation
• English 525: Shakespeare, graduate level
• Theater 305: Shakespeare in Performance (monthly guest lecturer for 5 years)

Updated 3 February 2025