Teaching

Assignments, writing, and documents to support my teaching.

This section gathers the course materials I share with students: assignments, handouts, schedules, and syllabi organized as individual pages.

Editorial Assistant Responsibilities for the graduate assistant for The Mailer Review, spring 2026.
Policies General policies applicable for all courses taught by me.
Reading Journal Assignment Weekly reflective entries responding to course texts.
Financialization and Loss of Use in Wordsworth Wordsworth’s early critique against capitalism.
Fleeing Menace in “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” Menace and voice in Wilson’s 1981 play.
Writing in the Liberal Arts A primer for writing conventions in higher education.
“Harrison Bergeron” and Wokeness Kurt Vonnegut’s warning about passive citizenship.
From Innocence to Disillusionment An example reader response essay on James Joyce’s “Araby.”
Why Mathilde Never Came Clean Pride, social slass, and the invisible chains of economic hierarchy in “The Necklace.”
How to Do Well in My Class Engage learning with enthusiasm, imagination, and focus.
Marxist Criticism How texts reflect, critique, or reinforce socio-economic conditions, class struggles, and dominant ideologies.
What Place Evolution? A note on Jack London’s “To Build a Fire.”
The Light Was Out Some notes of Joyce’s “Araby.”
Hemingway’s “Indian Camp” Some notes of Hemingway’s “Indian Camp.”
You Can’t Go Home Again Some notes of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1931 short story “Babylon Revisited.”