Fall 2025-Spring 2026: On sabbatical
Spring 2025: Introduction to Digital Humanities (grad)
Syllabus
Spring 2025: Advanced Writing: The Rhetorical Self (first-year)
Fall 2024: Toni Morrison: the Art of Storytelling
Fall 2024: Virginia Woolf (grad)
Spring 2024: Black Mirrors: Science Fiction, AI, and Ethics
Spring 2024: Global Cinema
Fall 2023: Things Fall Apart: British/Postcolonial Literature After 1900
Fall 2023: Climate Fiction and Film: Global Perspectives
Spring 2023: Theories of Literature and Social Justice
Spring 2023: Global Cinema
Fall 2022: Toni Morrison: the Art of Storytelling
Toni Morrison: A Teaching and Learning Resource
Spring 2022: Global Cinema
Spring 2022: Seminar on Writing (for first-year students)
Fall 2021: Postcolonial Ecocriticism
Spring 2021: Toni Morrison: the Art of Storytelling
Syllabus
Toni Morrison: A Teaching and Learning Resource
Spring 2021: Global Cinema
Fall 2020: Decolonizing (Digital) Humanities
Spring 2020: Working With Texts (gateway English major course)
Fall 2019: The Disappearing Center: British/Postcolonial Literature After 1900 (graduate seminar)
Spring 2019: New Brown America: Race and Identity in the 21st Century
Fall 2018: Research Leave
Spring 2018, Literature and Social Justice (co-taught with Jennna Lay)
Teaching Blog Post: A Dream of Whiteness: Toni Morrison’s ‘Playing in the Dark’ and ‘La La Land’
Spring 2018, Global Literature and Film
Fall 2017, English 90, What Am I Doing Here? The Value of a Liberal Arts
Education
Fall 2017, English 1: Composition and Rhetoric (Focus on Race in America)
Teaching Notes: Talking About Ta-Nehisi Coates and Whiteness with my Students
Teaching Resources: “Ta-Nehisi Coates’ ‘Between the World and Me’ in the First-Year Writing Classroom”
Spring 2017, English 447: Writing Empire: Texts from British India
Summer 2016, English 187: Beyond Bollywood: Indian Cinema in an Era of
Globalization
Fall 2016, English 90, What Am I Doing Here? The Value of a Liberal Arts
Education
Fall 2016, English 312, Literature and Religion
Spring 2016, English 2, Composition and Literature
Teaching Notes: Multimodal Assignment
Teaching Notes: Immigrants and Refugees
Teaching Notes: The Evolution of the Natural Born Citizen Idea
Fall 2015, English 493 (co-taught with Ed Whitley), “Introduction to Digital
Humanities”
Teaching Notes: Harlem Shadows Collaborative Project
Teaching Notes: Syuzhet For Dummies
Teaching Notes: The Archive Gap: Race, the Canon, and the Digital Humanities
Fall 2015, English 90, What Am I Doing Here? The Value of a Liberal Arts
Education
Spring 2015, Asian American Literature and Popular Culture
Teaching Notes: What is Yellowface?
Fall 2014, English 187. British Literature II
Fall 2014, English 309, Literary Criticism and Theory
Summer 2013, English 187, Steampunk: Retro-Science Fiction
Spring 2014: English 385 Transatlantic Modernism
Spring 2013: English 187, Writing for the Internet
Spring 2012: English 447, Transatlantic Modernism
Spring 2012: English 126: British Literature II
Spring 2011-Fall 2011: On Research Leave
Spring 2010, English 449
Spring 2010, Humanities 150: “The Edges of the Human”: Japanese and American Science Fiction (co-taught with Shige Suzuki)
Fall 2008: English 447: Literary Theory and Anti-Theory
Fall 2009: Converts and Rebels: Religion in British Modernism
Fall 2009: Global English
Spring 2009: From West to East: Travel Writing and Globalization
Spring 2009: Texture in the Text (Grad Seminar)
Fall 2008: James Joyce and Modern Ireland
Spring 2008: Virginia Woolf and British Modernism (Graduate Seminar)
Spring 2007: Modernism
Spring 2006: Travel Writers: India, England, and the U.S. (Introductory level)
Contemporary British Fiction (Senior English Major Seminar)
Spring 2005: 20th Century British Literature By Women (Undergraduate Seminar)
Modern India: Literature and Film (Introductory Course)
Fall 2006: Secrecy and Authorship (Introductory Undergraduate Seminar)
Fall 2006:Beyond East And West: Travel Writers and Globalization (Graduate Seminar)
Fall 2005: Literature and Freedom (Advanced First-year Writing Seminar)
Spring 2004: On Research Leave
Fall 2003
How to Read Deconstructively
Jacques Derrida, Roland Barthes, Gayatri Spivak, Oscar Wilde, Samuel Beckett, Salman Rushdie
Spring 2003
Black Atlantic Literature
Caryl Phillips, Toni Morrison, Jamaica Kincaid, Edwidge Danticat, John Edgar Wideman, Claude McKay, Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen
Spring 2003
Debate and Dialogue in Literatures of the Middle East Orhan Pamuk, A.B. Yehoshua, Hanan al-Shaykh, Amitav Ghosh, Naguib Mahfouz
English 191 – Fall 2002
South Asian Literature: Salman Rushdie, Bapsi Sidhwa, Mohsin Hamid, Amitav Ghosh, Arundhati Roy, Agha Shahid Ali…
Global English (Graduate Seminar)
Fall 2004: Graduate Seminar, Spirits of Modernity
English 449 – Fall 2002
Writing, the Body, and the Other:
Mahashweta Devi, J.M. Coetzee, Jeannette Winterson, Virginia Woolf, H.D., Octavia Butler, Franz Kafka, Jorge Luis Borges, Rudyard Kipling, H.G. Wells…
English 385 -- Fall 2001
British Modernism E.M. Forster, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Mulk Raj Anand, Gertrude Stein (yes, an American), Aime Cesaire (yes, a Martinician) Modernism Online Resources