Current Teaching
Teaching in Spring 2022 at the University of St. Gallen:
“All Men Are Created Equal:” Histories of Inequality in the United States
Contemporary Cinema: The Twenty-First Century on Screen
Public Lectures Fall 2022
In Fall 2022, I will be giving a six-part public lecture series in English for the larger community around St. Gallen/ East Switzerland as part of HSG’s Offentliche Vorlesungen initiative. The subject will be “Histories of Inequality in the United States.” More details forthcoming.
Teaching Fields
My teaching fields are transnational American Studies, media studies, film studies, gender and sexuality studies, and race and race-making in the United States. I have taught at institutions with richly diverse student bodies, from private to public universities, and from Anglophone to ESL settings. My pedagogy is feminist and anti-racist. I design all my classes—from the citational politics of the syllabus to lesson plan—with the goal of making sure that all students can thrive and feel welcomed while at the same time actively working to decenter the western, male, white texts that too often dominate syllabi and the academy at large.
Some of my recent courses at the American University of Beirut include:
- Screening Crises
- Media History
- Intro to American Studies
In 2016, I received the university-wide Reginald D. Archambault Award in Teaching Excellence at Brown University for a course I designed and taught, “Remixing Racial Codes: Interraciality in Post-45 Film and Literature.” I was also the 2019 departmental nominee for a Presidential Teaching Award, nominated by faculty and students.
Sample syllabi, evaluations, and a full portfolio are available upon request.
