Courses Taught
I teach a variety of courses at all levels. These classes are mostly explorations of early British literature, especially that of the early modern period (or Renaissance). We read literary texts alongside broader cultural and historical evidence such as painting, portraiture and engraving, objects, historic documents, and films. We weave the history of theater with the development of drama in the period, and I always incorporate creative projects such as performances and imaginative responses to the course material through various media in my upper-division and graduate courses.
Core Courses
World Literature Since 1660; Honors World Literature Since 1660
Survey of British Literature before 1789 (regular and lecture formats; in person and online)
Composition I: “Word and Image: Observing, Thinking, Writing”
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Composition II: “Being Visual / Visual Being”
Graduate Courses
- British Literature, 1500-1660: Writing (for) Power
- British Literature and Culture: Early Modern Bodies
- Early Modern Studies:
* Shakespeare and Elizabeth I
* “Dialogue of One”: Women writing men; men writing women in the English Renaissance
* Material Culture and Visual Rhetoric
- Practicum in Teaching for First-Year Master's Students
Upper-Division Courses
- Capstone in Literature: Disguise, Revenge, Boys Playing Girls Playing Boys: Researching the Renaissance Drama (Fall 2012);
Embodiment: The Renaissance--Here and Now (Fall 2016)
- Sixteenth Century British Literature
- Shakespeare’s Contemporaries: Revenge Tragedy
- Film and Literature: Shakespeare on Screen
- Milton
- Shakespeare:
* Women and Power;
* Defining and Defying Femininity;
* Identity and Inwardness;
* Inwardness and Performance;
* Spin-offs and Retellings;
* Focus on the Fool;
* Pre-texts, Texts, and After-Texts;
* Rings and Things
* From Page to Stage to Screen
-Harry Potter in the World of Muggles
-Study in London: Shakespeare Goes to Hogwarts
Future Courses
Honors Seminar in Gendering Material Culture
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