Teaching

Democratizing Data? Critical Data Studies in Algorithmic Governance

Instructor of record, graduate course in the School of Social Policy and Practice, University of Pennsylvania (Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Fall 2023).

This course explores how the increasing power of computational analytics and the proliferation of data production—sometimes called the “data revolution”— has introduced new challenges to the practice of democracy. Topics such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, predictive analytics algorithms will be discussed in relation to questions pertaining to race, gender, class, sexuality, and disability.

American Gothic Literature

Instructor of record, University of Pennsylvania (Spring 2022).

This upper-level undergraduate course explores what the enduring tropes of Gothic fiction like haunted houses, doppelgangers, and sentient machines reveal about the massive social and economic changes of the nineteenth century. Our historical attention to race, labor, and gender will enable us to reconsider the literature of American horror and illuminate our continued reliance on gothic tropes for representing the uniquely disturbing experiences of modern life.

Literature of the Apocalypse

Instructor of record, University of Iowa (Fall 2016, Spring 2017, Fall 2017, Spring 2018).

A general education requirement for non-majors, this course introduces students to literary studies through representations of the apocalypse in global literature. Over the course of the semester, students question the plurality of apocalypses: their multiple histories, locations, temporalities, and afterlives.

Creative Writing Studio Workshop

Instructor of record, University of Iowa (Spring 2018).

This general education creative writing workshop introduces students to the craft of writing poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. Each week students will be asked to read, annotate, and be prepared to discuss the submissions of their peers.

Literature and Law

Teaching Assistant for Professor Nancy Bentley, University of Pennsylvania (Spring 2020).

Monsters in Film and Literature

Recitation Instructor and Teaching Assistant for Professor Chi-ming Yang, University of Pennsylvania (Fall 2020).