Teaching

Courses Taught @ Concordia University Irvine (2017 – Present)

• ENG 471: Literary Theory
  • From the “Hermeneutics of suspicion” to “Post-critique” & “Digital Humanities”

• HST/POL 412: U.S. Constitution
  • The U.S. Constitution from Colonial Origins to the Present

• POL 413: The History of Religion and Politics in America
  • From Puritan Origins to the Present

• ENG 451: Senior Seminar
  • The U.S. Campus Novel: 1918–2018
  • American Literature & Politics: 1960–2020
  • American Science Fiction: 1920s–2020s

• ENG 383: African-Poetry and Hip Hop
  • Phillis Wheatley to Kendrick Lamar

• ENG 341: American Literature Survey I
  • Literary Origins to the Civil War

• ENG 342: American Literature Survey II
  • The Civil War to World War II

• ENG 441: Major American Writers (individual-author studies)
  • Toni Morrison
  • Octavia E. Butler
  • Colson Whitehead
  • Junot Diaz
  • F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Marilynne Robinson
  • Ernest Hemingway
  • David Foster Wallace

• PHL / ENG 499: Existentialism & Literature
  • From Dostoevsky to Black Existentialism

• CENG 201: Core Curriculum World Literature
  • From Antiquity to the Renaissance

• CENG 301: Core Curriculum World Literature
  • From the Enlightenment to the Present

• WRT 102: Writing & Research
  • Course Theme: “Writing About Popular Culture”
  • Course Theme: “The Eloquence of Faith & Doubt”

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Summer Course Taught @ University of Notre Dame (2016 – 2025)

• ENGL 24156: Introduction to the First Amendment: Free Speech in the Digital Age
  • Course Theme: Law & Literature