Current Courses
ENG 339: Science, Symbols, and Strangers in Early Shakespeare
Department of English
UNC Greensboro, Fall 2017
Dark ladies, potions, cannibals, hermaphrodites: Shakespeare’s poems and plays abound with queries into the natural and medical sciences and the question of how to read markers of difference. In this course, we will read Shakespeare’s early poems and plays with an eye toward exploring the interplay between science, symbols, and strangers in Shakespeare’s construction of meaning.
Upcoming Courses
ENG 340: Late Shakespeare
Department of English
UNC Greensboro, Spring 2018
Recent Courses
Bio/Techno/Magical Thresholds from Shakespeare to Stranger Things: Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Utopia
Department of English and Comparative Literature
UNC Chapel Hill, Spring 2017
This course explores the imaginative permutations of the threshold, specifically through how writers of speculative fiction experiment with various thresholds in and of our imaginations, through science, through technology, through magic, or otherwise. How might we imagine and re-imagine possibilities outside of our present reality, and how do those acts of imagination enable us to return to our reality with an expanded sense of what, indeed, is possible? Our journey to explore thresholds and their corresponding transitions, entrances, and exits—between worlds, between moments, and between states of being—thus spans science fiction, fantasy fiction, and utopian/dystopian literature, from Renaissance magic and travel fiction to 21st-century digital games and film, and the experimental possibilities they afford.
English Rhetoric and Composition: Afterlives of Humanity
Department of English and Comparative Literature
UNC Chapel Hill, Fall 2016
ENG 339: Science, Symbols, and Strangers in Early Shakespeare
Department of English
UNC Greensboro, Fall 2017
Dark ladies, potions, cannibals, hermaphrodites: Shakespeare’s poems and plays abound with queries into the natural and medical sciences and the question of how to read markers of difference. In this course, we will read Shakespeare’s early poems and plays with an eye toward exploring the interplay between science, symbols, and strangers in Shakespeare’s construction of meaning.
Upcoming Courses
ENG 340: Late Shakespeare
Department of English
UNC Greensboro, Spring 2018
Recent Courses
Bio/Techno/Magical Thresholds from Shakespeare to Stranger Things: Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Utopia
Department of English and Comparative Literature
UNC Chapel Hill, Spring 2017
This course explores the imaginative permutations of the threshold, specifically through how writers of speculative fiction experiment with various thresholds in and of our imaginations, through science, through technology, through magic, or otherwise. How might we imagine and re-imagine possibilities outside of our present reality, and how do those acts of imagination enable us to return to our reality with an expanded sense of what, indeed, is possible? Our journey to explore thresholds and their corresponding transitions, entrances, and exits—between worlds, between moments, and between states of being—thus spans science fiction, fantasy fiction, and utopian/dystopian literature, from Renaissance magic and travel fiction to 21st-century digital games and film, and the experimental possibilities they afford.
English Rhetoric and Composition: Afterlives of Humanity
Department of English and Comparative Literature
UNC Chapel Hill, Fall 2016
Microthemes: Intellectual and Social Futures, Advancing Life, and Imagining Afterlives. Students work towards conference paper submission for interdisciplinary conferences:
Feminisms Here and Now conference: Communicating Alongside | Across | Against.
Console-ing Passions: International Conference on Television, Video, Audio, New Media, and Feminism
English Rhetoric and Composition: Strange Eating
Department of English and Comparative Literature
UNC Chapel Hill, Spring 2016
Truths, Experiments, and Fiction: The Stories of Humanity
Department of English and Comparative Literature
UNC Chapel Hill, Fall 2015
Feminisms Here and Now conference: Communicating Alongside | Across | Against.
Console-ing Passions: International Conference on Television, Video, Audio, New Media, and Feminism
English Rhetoric and Composition: Strange Eating
Department of English and Comparative Literature
UNC Chapel Hill, Spring 2016
Truths, Experiments, and Fiction: The Stories of Humanity
Department of English and Comparative Literature
UNC Chapel Hill, Fall 2015