Teaching Philosophy

My teaching respects the indivisible character of intellectual pursuits and political existence. Through emphasis on critical methodologies like close-reading, I invite students to consider the social, cultural, political, and economic as texts to be deciphered—not only for what they mean but for what they do materially and discursively. Additionally, I encourage students to bring their own diverse and divergent experiences and knowledge to bear on the intellectual spaces they inhabit, both in the university setting and beyond, by designing theoretically rigorous yet imaginative assignments—using digital games and augmented reality, archival trips, community engagement and so forth. Students, in this way, learn to take literature and other forms of cultural production as the grounds for thinking and acting critically.

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