Teaching

As a teacher, I strive to create a classroom space that makes room for sitting with the difficult reality of crises like climate change and for imagining new ways of relating to our planet (and each other). I work to create opportunity and space for student empowerment in three ways: emphasizing learning through dialogue and conversation, supporting student’s agency, and developing interdisciplinary thinking. 

At UL Lafayette, I teach courses in American literary cultures, ecocriticism, and the environmental humanities more broadly.

Courses

• Dirt/Dust/Soil: An Ecocritical Approach

• American Literature II (1865-Present)

• Climate Fiction

• The Short Story  in English: Writing in Place

• Sustainable Futures: Environmental Challenges and Solutions

• Introduction to Environmental and Climate Humanities 

• American Literature: Environmental Crisis and US Cultures