Pedagogy

Research and Teaching Fields

Gender and sexuality studies, disability studies, Anglophone fiction 19^th century to present, the novel, film and media, feminist and queer theory, history of sexuality, medical humanities, critical pedagogy, writing studies

Teaching Philosophy

As leading disability scholar Julie Avril Minich reminds us, critical disability studies is both a research and a teaching methodology; the labor of accessibility must be addressed on an institutional as well as an intellectual level. I maintain a fierce attachment to critical pedagogy as an inextricable dimension of my disability studies work. I undertake hands-on research in disability pedagogy in my classroom as I learn with and from my students about creating and centering accessibility. I expand and disseminate this knowledge through my work training graduate and postdoctoral teachers as a McDougal Teaching Fellow in Yale’s Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning and through my administrative and tutoring labor as Graduate Assistant Director of the Writing Center. My pedagogical values reflect the ultimate goal that motivates all my scholarship: the creation of a more just world for queer and disabled people.

For a full version of my teaching philosophy, and for materials such as syllabi and student evaluations, please contact me.

College Courses Taught

Introduction to Writing Studies and Peer Tutor Practicum (Yale Prison Education Initiative, teaching assistant)

Writing Seminar: Disability and Desire (Yale College)

Writing Seminar: One Hundred Years of Sexuality (Yale College)

Writing Seminar: Pirates (Yale College)

“We Interrupt This Program”: The Multidimensional Histories of Queer and Trans Politics (Yale College, teaching assistant)

Queer Modernisms (Yale College, teaching assistant)

Pedagogy Workshops Facilitated

Fundamentals of Teaching in the Humanities (four-part series)

Disability Justice as Pedagogy (four-part series)

Teaching First-Generation Low-Income Students

Mental Health in the Classroom

Play in the Classroom

AI Workshop for Writing Instructors

Tutoring Writers Who Struggle with Executive Function

Writing Requirement Teaching Fellows Workshop (four-part series, taught semesterly for two years)