I have taught courses on many topics over the years, with titles like "Global Cinema" to "Toni Morrison: an American Storyteller." With topics I have taught multiple times, I have developed extensive teaching notes, and some of those are included below. With others (i.e., Toni Morrison, Claude McKay), I used my notes to develop public-facing web resources.
Some of these teaching notes have found quite a few readers. My explainer on Spivak's "Can the Subaltern Speak?" was written to help introduce the essay to graduate students in a "Theories of Literature and Social Justice" course in 2023. According to my tracker, it has been read more than 50,000 times as of September 2026.
If you find any of my teaching notes helpful for your own teaching or research, I would be grateful if you could let me know -- I am at amsp AT lehigh DOT edu.
Global and Postcolonial Literature and Film
"Can The Subaltern Speak?" In Plain English: An Explainer (2023)
Global Cinema: Introducing Key Terms
Claude McKay: A Diasporic Figure in the Harlem Renaissance (Slides; 2023)
Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things (taught multiple times)
On Science and Science Fiction (Slides; 2026)
E.M. Forster, Howards End (taught multiple times)
Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway (taught multiple times)
Virginia Woolf: Detailed Introduction for a Grad Seminar (2024)
Teaching Woolf in an Age of Distant Reading (Slides; 2024)
James Joyce, Ulysses (2008)
George Eliot Middlemarch (taught multiple times)
Asian American Literature and Popular Culture (2015)
Asian American Studies Explainer: What is Yellowface? (2015)
A Dream of Whiteness: Toni Morrison's Playing in the Dark and Jazz in La La Land (2018)
Miscellaneous
Generative AI and the Future of Writing: A Few Meditations (2024)
Literature and Social Justice: Teaching Notes (2018)
"What Am I Doing Here? The Value of a Liberal Arts Education" (2015)
Religion and Literature: Course Introduction (2014)
Web Resources Built on Teaching Notes
Toni Morrison: A Teaching and Learning Resource
Harlem Shadows Collaborative Project (2015). Eventually led to the creation of Claude McKay's Early Poetry.
Syuzhet Sentiment Analysis: An Explainer for Beginners and Non-Coders (2015/2025)
Text Processing With Regular Expressions (RegEx): A Digital Humanities Work-Flow For Beginners (2020/2025)