CLASSES TAUGHT
Instructor of Record
Asian American Literature and Culture
Fall 2019
Cross-listed: Department of English and Department of Asian American Studies, The University of Texas at Austin
Description: Through the lens of 20th and 21st century Asian American novels and short stories, this class explores issues of nationhood, ethnicity, race, and gender in the project of constructing “Asian-American” identity.
Banned Books and Novel Ideas
Spring-Fall 2020
Department of English, The University of Texas at Austin
Description: This course explores the qualities that made children’s and YA books appear threatening to those who argued that they be banned, examining the contexts of each book’s suppression, asking what the work has to teach us about the societies in which it is banned. The goal is to provoke wide-ranging discussions on both nostalgic and new texts that will intrigue and excite students on many levels.
Rhetoric of Bicultural Identity
2017-2018
Department of Rhetoric, The University of Texas at Austin
Description: The class examines the way our society talks about multiculturalism, and in turn, how the way we talk about it shape the way that it exists.
Rhetoric & Writing
2016-2017
Department of Rhetoric, The University of Texas at Austin
Description: The class serves as an introduction to the ethics of argumentation, with the goal of advancing critical writing and reading skills.
CLASSES ASSISTED
Teaching Assistant
Language in the Media
Spring 2018
Department of Undergraduate Studies, The University of Texas at Austin
Description: The course covers the use of language in media contexts, ranging from speeches to films, and how the use of language indexes specific identities, alignments, or intentions.
Survey of American Literature
Multiple
Summer 2017, 2019 (MOOC)
Fall 2014, Spring 2016
Department of English, The University of Texas at Austin
Description: This course in the American literary tradition explores historical and thematic connections between writers and works from the 17th to the 21st centuries.
Survey of World Literature
Multiple
Summer 2015, Fall 2016
Department of English, The University of Texas at Austin
Description: This course is an introduction to the systematic study of literature. The selections focus on masterworks of literature from the 19th and early 20th centuries.
American English
Spring 2016
Department of English, The University of Texas at Austin
Description: The course covers the development of American English since colonial times, devoting time to different varieties of English in the U.S. and Canada, considering linguistic variation according to factors such as region, social status, ethnicity, age, and gender.
English Grammar
Spring 2016
Department of English, The University of Texas at Austin
Description: The course covers the practice of traditional, structuralist ways of analyzing sentences, both formal and functional ways of describing and discussing selected grammatical problems and work with digital language corpora.
Survey of British Literature
Multiple
Spring 2015, Fall 2015
Department of English, The University of Texas at Austin
Description: This course provides an overview of British literature from the Middle Ages to the present, surveying a wide range of genres and literary forms.
Language and Diversity
Spring 2015
Department of Undergraduate Studies, The University of Texas at Austin
Description: The course delves into inquiry around regional and sociocultural dialect differences across North America.
Linguistics for Readers
Spring 2014
Department of English, The University of Texas at Austin
Description: This course offers an introduction to language-based approaches to literature to enhance close reading through skills in the responsible analysis of the material side of literary language.
English as a World Language
Spring 2014
Department of English, The University of Texas at Austin
Description: This course is designed to provide students with an understanding of the different ‘Englishes’ that are spoken around the world.