Courses Taught

Masters of Poetry. Gris Literatura, 2019–Present.
Ongoing lecture & discussion series, currently being offered online on the 1st Wednesday of the month, exploring the craft techniques of great poets from the 20th and 21st centuries.

Witches! University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, 2021. 
Interdisciplinary Honors Program colloquium on witches and witchcraft as represented in the cultural imagination, from fairytales and folklore to films and literature.

Poetry as Protest in 21^st-Century America. University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, 2017 & 2019.
Honors Program colloquium exploring intersections of art and activism, and the efficacy of poetry as a tool for social change.

Intermediate Poetry Writing. University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, 2017.
Upper-division course for creative writing majors and minors interested in learning how to craft and critically evaluate poems.

In Brief: Writing the Short Poem. The Loft Literary Center, 2016.
Six-week workshop for adults interested in writing in short forms (haiku, tanka, sonnets, triolets).

Introduction to Creative Writing. University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, 2014–2017.
Multi-genre course geared toward introducing students to the fundamentals of creative writing through workshops, in-class writing exercises, and discussions. Genres taught: poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, playwriting.

Writing Personal Narrative. St. Paul’s School, 2015.
Summer workshop for rising high school seniors enrolled in the Advanced Studies Program. Students study the craft of creative nonfiction, composing a series of brief essays and participating in discussions of published work.

Writing With the Net Up: Formal Poetry. Newberry Library, 2012.
Weekly workshop for poets of all ages and experience, offered through the Newberry Library’s continuing education program.

Form in Poetry. Cambridge Center for Adult Education, 2012.
Weekly workshop exploring poetic forms including sonnets, sestinas, pantoums, and villanelles.

The Blugold Seminar in Critical Reading & Writing. University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, 2013–2017.
UW-Eau Claire’s one-semester intensive rhetoric and composition course required to fulfill the university writing requirement. The curriculum is designed to improve students’ abilities in four keys areas: rhetorical knowledge, writing craft, research & inquiry, and digital literacy. Sections are theme-based at the instructor’s discretion – past themes include gender, mental health, and subcultures.

Introduction to Composition. Roosevelt University, 2012.
Genre-based composition course which gives students experience writing in a variety of styles and experimenting with different research methods. The course is divided into four units, each culminating in a major writing assignment – a personal essay, a thesis-driven argument paper, an ethnographic research project, and an advocacy campaign.

Introduction to College Writing. Emerson College, 2010–2012.
The first course in Emerson College’s first-year writing sequence, as designed by John Trimbur. Using Kenneth Bruffee’s A Short Course in Writing and Joseph Harris’s Rewriting, students produce a series of short argument essays modeling different rhetorical strategies, one longer form paper drawing from two primary sources, and a final multimodal project.

Research Writing. Emerson College, 2010–2012.
Thematic genre-based course that follows WR 101, in which students explore different ways of incorporating research and thinking about audience and purpose in their writing. Genres range from personal narratives and reviews to annotated bibliographies and research essays.