I have taught a broad range of literature, culture, 
language and linguistics, writing, women’s and gender studies, and other liberal arts/ humanities subjects at the college and high-school level over the past twenty years. Below is a summary of my teaching experience. Course descriptions are included for the first listing of all university-level courses taught.
Courses Taught
At Lindenwood University
Course Offerings, Summer 2023
The Medieval World (4-week online course)
Course Offerings, Spring 2023
Composition II
The Medieval World (200-level general education literature survey)
The “Middle Ages”—the historical period spanning from the fall of the Roman Empire through the fifteenth century—easily captivates our imaginations. In this course, you will examine various aspects of the medieval world by exploring topics such as education, politics, religion, medicine, food and foodways, forms of travel, scientific and magical practices, literacy, memory, folk traditions, courtly traditions, and philosophical beliefs by reading representative texts from around the medieval world.
Chaucer
History of the English Language
English Directed Internship
This independent study will provide you with opportunities to apply writing and communication skills in a practical, hands-on environment. You can also network and gain professional connections to give you an advantage on the job market. This course is repeatable for a maximum of nine credit hours.
Course Offerings, Fall 2022
Introduction to Global Gender Studies
This interdisciplinary course provides an introduction to the key topics and debates that have shaped the field of gender studies, including masculinity studies and the study of sexuality, history of women’s movements and women’s studies in America, cross cultural constructions of gender, and a thematic emphasis on the diversity of women’s experience across class, race, and cultural lines. Through lecture and class discussion of texts from history, literature, film, psychology, and sociology, we will examine the pervasive influence of gender on the structure of society and our everyday experiences. What role does gender play in our understanding of love, friendship, sexuality, and even violence? Topics will include biological arguments about gender and sexuality; the social construction of gender and identity; intersections of gender, race, class, and sexuality; masculinity and femininity; and theories of sexual difference and the construction of sexuality.
Mythology and Folklore
World Literature to 1500: Faith/War/Travel/Memory/Love
Senior Capstone in English Studies
Course Offerings, Spring 2022
History of the English Language (400-level linguistics instruction)
Senior Capstone in English Studies (independent study tutorial)
Medieval Literature:Violence & Trauma from Beowulf to the Morte Darthur (300-level literature seminar)
Viking Literature (200-level gen ed literature seminar and 300-level English major tutorial)
Who were the Vikings, what were they really like, and why do modern audiences still find them so endlessly fascinating? This course will introduce you to the early literatures of Scandinavia—Norway, Denmark, and Iceland, with occasional side-glances at Sweden and Finland. You will be reading in the major genres of these cultures—the eddas, or mythological texts; the sagas, which tell the histories and adventures of the people of Iceland or of the knights of popular imagination; and the various shorter poetic forms. You will gain a broad introductory knowledge of the diverse cultures that produced these “Viking” literatures, while enjoying some wonderful stories and poems and even trying your hand at writing in some of the most important poetic forms!
Course offerings, Fall 2021
World Literature to 1500 (200-level literature survey)
Medieval Celtic Literature (200-level gen ed literature seminar)
Senior Capstone in English Studies
Course Offerings, Summer 2021
British Literature to 1700 online (200-level gen ed literature survey)
Course Offerings, Spring 2021
Composition II (100-level writing instruction)
The Arthurian Legend (200-level gen ed literature seminar)
In this course you will explore the legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. Our course themes may include the Arthurian legend from a global perspective, examining how it appears in literatures from around the world, or it may focus specifically on the English, or European, traditions; it may focus specifically on the earliest Arthurian legends of the Middle Ages, or on modern representations of the Arthurian legend in literature and on television and film. As we read and discuss a variety of representations of the legend, you will consider major themes—chivalry, courtesy, honor, loyalty, treason, betrayal, friendship, adventure, quest, gender and masculinity, violence—and major characters, including King Arthur, Queen Guinevere, Sir Lancelot, and Sir Gawain, that have made these stories legendary and contribute to their continued popularity today.
Early Modern Literature (300-level literature and culture seminar)
The Early Modern period spans from the end of the Middle Ages through the 17th century, and many people call it “the Renaissance.” We often think that the Renaissance only occurred in Italy, but we’ll find that it’s better to think of a series of “renaissances” throughout Europe. There are many different cultural, ethnic, and regional literatures to explore, a variety of themes, genres, and critical lenses, and—of course—no end of authors for us to investigate. This course will challenge you to read these texts in their socio-historical and political contexts, with attention to what they can reveal to us about the civilizations that produced them, and also, what they can reveal to us about ourselves in our own time.
Chaucer (300-level literature tutorial)
History of the English Language (400-level linguistics instruction)
Course Offerings, Fall 2020
Composition II
World Literature to 1500 (2 sections)
Senior Capstone in English Studies
Writing for Game Design (cancelled for low enrollment)
Course Offerings, Summer 2020
English 205 online, British Literature I
Course Offerings, Spring 2020
English 404, History of the English Language
English 332, Chaucer
English 241 online, Celtic Literature
English 170, Composition II
Course Offerings, Fall 2019
English 454, Senior Thesis
English 254, Mythology and Folklore (2 sections)
English 170, Composition II
Course Offerings, Summer 2019
English 201 (online): World Literature to 1500
Course Offerings, Spring 2019
English 454, Senior Thesis
IS 410: Interdisciplinary Studies Internship
English 386 Online, Advanced Medieval Celtic Literature
Advanced version of Celtic Literature for English majors (see description below)
English 281 Online, Medieval Celtic Literature and Culture
In the modern world, “Celtic” has nearly become synonymous with shamrocks, St. Patrick’s Day, leprechauns and fairies, knotwork designs on everything from blankets to journal covers to t-shirts, and of course, the color green. But where did the idea of “Celtic” originate, and were original “Celtic” things the same as they are today? This course is an introductory survey of the early literatures of Ireland, Wales, Brittany, and Scotland. Emphasis will be placed on understanding the texts in terms of genre, narrative structure, literary elements, cultural and historical significance and context, and continuing influence on contemporary understandings of “Celtic” –-which is not at all the same as the historical reality! You will gain a broad introductory knowledge of the diverse cultures that produced these literatures, as well as enjoying some wonderful stories and poems. You will also have the opportunity to engage with an online community to explore topics relating to Celtic history and culture beyond the course curriculum. All texts will be read in English translation, and we will also look at the original languages whenever possible.
English 201, World Literature to 1500
English 201 Tutorial, World Literature to 1500
Course Offerings, Fall 2018
English 454, Senior Thesis Independent Study
English 404, History of the English Language
English 380 Online, Medieval Afterlives: Modern Receptions of the Medieval–Women in medieval literature and medievalism
This course is designed to give you the chance to read representative medieval texts by and about or featuring women figures in their historical and cultural contexts, and to explore some of the ways in which those texts have been adapted and used in post-medieval popular culture. In addition, you will be making use of various Internet resources and applications to bring the course content into “real life” and frame it within the ongoing cultural context it both inspires and is informed by. Course texts include offerings from the Church fathers/ theology and philosophy, as theoretical underpinning; Old Norse/Icelandic sagas; Celtic narratives; poetry by women writers from Japan, China, India, and the Byzantine Empire; Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman, and Middle English texts; and hagiography and women’s medical texts from the medieval period.
English 205, British Literature I
Course Offerings, Summer 2018
English 205, British Literature 1 (online)
Course Offerings, Spring 2018
English 338, Medieval Literature: Violence & Trauma from Beowulf to the Morte Darthur
This course considers the presence and function of violence and the depiction of trauma in medieval British texts. We will examine select narratives for the ways in which violence is used as a force of destruction and of construction, and consider the distinct cultural anxieties which scenes of violence can reveal to us. As we do so, we will consider the ways medieval writers engage (or do not) the theme of trauma linked to violence, both individual and cultural in nature. By deconstructing the violence in medieval narratives and thinking through its various critical functions and meanings for both author and audience, we might better understand the violence in medieval literature as a critical tool, and shed light on our reception of medieval violence and how it both supports and undermines modern constructions of the medieval. Assignments include the comparison of a medieval narrative to a film counterpart, a 10-minute oral presentation of research into an aspect of medieval violence, and a 10-12 page critical essay examining the presence and function of violence and/or trauma in the student’s choice of texts.
English 280 Honors, The British Arthurian Legend (study abroad)
English 280 special topics, Mythology, Folklore, and Fairy Tale
This course is an introductory comparative survey of essential mythological and folkloric motifs found in selected cultures from around the world. Emphasis is on companionative reading of texts in association with one another, remarking upon the structure, format, nature, and topical resonances, as well as the cultural interests reflected in each text. Selected texts are representative, rather than exhaustive—we only have 16 weeks! The course format is a blend of lecture, student group work, and individual student research and presentation. Assignments include a weekly wrap-up paper, an essay comparing a modern version of a myth with one or more of its source texts, the development of an original set of myths and of an original folkloric tale, a research project focusing on one major mythological and one major folkloric topic, two examinations during the term, and a final examination at the end of the term.
English 170, Research and Argumentation
Course Offerings, Fall 2017
English 170, Research and Argumentation
English 201, World Literature I
English 380, Medieval Afterlives: Modern Representations of the Medieval (online)
English 404, History of the English Language
Lindenwood Learning Community, The Global Arthurian Legend (freshman seminar)
Course Offerings, Summer 2017
English 205, British Literature I (online)
Course Offerings, Spring 2017
English 170, Research and Argumentation
English 201, World Literature I
English 332, Chaucer
Course Description
This course focuses on the reading of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, with primary emphasis on questions of authorship, readership and audience, genre, language, and interpretation and analysis.A secondary focus on relationships, including close reading of the texts in the Marriage Group and of how men and women interact with one another in the Tales, enables students to develop critical approaches to reading Chaucer that are grounded in gender studies, including feminist, masculinity, and queer interpretations. Students read the Canterbury Tales in Middle English.
Course Offerings, Fall 2016
English 170, Research and Argumentation (College Writing)
English 201, World Literature I
Course Description
This course is a survey of World Literature from earliest recorded texts through the 16th century, with an emphasis on companionative and comparative reading practices. I have organized the course thematically, rather than chronologically, and we consider five major human-centered ideas: faith, war, death, journeying, and love, organized in three-week units. Each unit includes texts from at least five different world cultures and from multiple time periods, permitting students to explore each theme’s development across time and place as well as within different societies. Each text is contextualized in brief lectures that feature cultural facts, images of artworks, architectural structures, and important figures, and whenever possible, recitations in the text’s language of origin. At the end of each unit, students are tasked with locating, reading, and writing about a text written in any culture and after 1500 that feaures the unit theme, but that we have not read in class, with the goal of showing first, that they can identify the theme’s presence in unfamiliar texts, and second, of observing and recording how a given theme has been developed in a time and place we have not studied yet, thus furthering their knowledge and allowing them to read and write about texts of personal interest to them.
English 205, British Literature I
Course Description
This course is a survey of British Literature from the Anglo-Saxon period through the 18th century, considering questions of authorship, readership and audience, genre, language, and interpretation, and reading literary texts in companionative fashion alongside contextual materials like maps, primary source documents including letters and inventories, manuscript evidence, and artworks and architecture.
English 404, History of the English Language
Course Description
This course is an introduction to the study of the English language. The phonology, history, and grammar of English are examined in the context of cultural, social, and political history with attention also to current linguistic theory. Students learn to describe in summary fashion the history and development of the English language. identify and understand the phonological, morphological, and syntactic characteristics of Old English, Middle English, and Modern English, recognize and articulate the major patterns and causes of linguistic change, use appropriate scholarly resources to research and discuss language acquisition, dialect, and semantic change in English, understand and analyze the subject of language acquisition and development, and examine and interpret historical, cultural, and political aspects of language use from an informed linguistic perspective.
At UNC Greensboro
Course Offerings, Spring 2016
English 105, Introduction to Narrative: Heroes and Monsters
English 101, College Writing I (Rhetoric and Composition)
Course Offerings, Fall 2015
English 101, College Writing I (Rhetoric and Composition)
English 210 Literature and the Arts: Medieval Afterlives
Course Description:
This course will consider both the medieval origins and popular afterlives of major cultural figures including King Arthur, Lancelot, and Guinevere; Tristan and Isolde; Robin Hood, and Joan of Arc; the origins of J.R.R. Tolkien’s middle-Earth fantasy books; and how the modern world has re-imagined the medieval period through stories and poetry, graphic novels and comics, art, opera, symphonic metal, television, and film. Students in this class will compile lists of medieval references in everyday life, conduct a multimodal Internet scavenger hunt for medieval subjects resulting in an annotated bibliography, write a critical essay explaining how medieval subjects are put to contemporary use, and develop a 15-minute oral presentation on one medieval subject and its pop culture afterlife, including at least 3 multi-media components. By the end of the term, students will have foundational knowledge of the medieval literature and culture of Northern Europe and a broad understanding of the continued influence of the medieval period on modern pop culture.
Course Offerings, Summer 2015
English 105 online Introduction to Narrative: Heroes and Monsters: Narratives of Identity and Alterity
Course Offerings, Spring 2015
English 106 (2 sections) Introduction to Poetry: “Dreamers, Dreams, and Dreaming”
Course Description:
The oldest recorded poem composed in the English language—“Caedmon’s Hymn,” c. 658-680 CE—was the product of a dream, and since that first recorded dream vision, poets’ fascination with dreams and dreaming has never waned. The dream language of metaphor, symbolism, imagery, and allusion is also the poet’s toolkit, a means by which to explore and seek to describe, explain, and understand things that seem beyond our grasp intellectually and emotionally, and it is through our dreams that human beings seek to understand our realities on a subconscious level. In this course, we will explore the poetry of dreamers, dream visions, and dreaming in the English and American literary traditions through poems ranging from the 8th century through the 21st. We will study a wide variety of poetic forms, including sonnets, ballads, hymns, free and blank verse, and poetic genres, including lyric and narrative poetry. Students will create online dream journals (commonplace books of poetry), and will try their hand at writing their own, original works and creating a multimedia poem. Other course assignments include weekly Blackboard discussion participation, a poetic analysis, a 3-5 page essay, a midterm and a final examination, student led discussions, and a group project consisting of an 8-10 minute oral presentation with a visual component.
Course Offerings, Fall 2014
English 101, College Writing I (Rhetoric and Composition)
Freshman Seminar 120, Transnational and Transcultural: The Global King Arthur Tradition
Course Description:
Do you or someone you know live on Camelot Drive, drive a Toyota Avalon, or use King Arthur flour to bake cookies? The legend of King Arthur has become so finely interwoven into our everyday lives that it is difficult to imagine the world without Arthuriana in it. In this course we will trace the development of the Arthurian legend from its medieval origins through the literature of our own time, with particular emphasis on its global nature. This course is writing intensive. Written assignments include critical analysis of character and theme; performing close reading of texts; developing a compare/contrast essay on texts from two different cultures; compiling a researched dossier on a student’s knight of choice; keeping track of Arthurian references encountered outside of class and using the results to write a critical reflection on the legend’s presence in contemporary culture; and engaging creatively with the material by exploring how students might fit into the Arthurian tradition through reflection on their own strengths and weaknesses and the development of their own knightly identity. By the end of the term, students in this course will have a broad understanding of the complexity and richness of the global Arthurian tradition. They will also have engaged in and successfully negotiated many of the acts required of a college student: critical reading, analysis, and reflection on texts; research; theoretical application; and synthesis.
Course Offerings, Spring 2014
English 101, College Writing I (Rhetoric and Composition)
English 104, Literary Alchemy: Texts of Transformations and Becoming (Introduction to Literature)
Course Description:
C.S. Lewis famously said: “we read to know we are not alone.” Each new text we engage with as readers presents us with an opportunity for transformation. When we read — every time we read, and whether we are aware of it or not — we also experience a personal change that can be either profound or infinitesimal, but always results in a shift in our thinking so that over time, our reading becomes an integral aspect of our identity. As readers, we are always becoming – becoming better readers, becoming better thinkers, becoming more informed, and finally, becoming part of the literary tradition we are studying, as its audience. In seeking to understand literature not only on its own merits, but also through consideration of the historical, cultural, and literary traditions that produce it, we are also in no small part seeking to understand ourselves and the world around us. In this course, we will consider a variety of texts written from the medieval era to the present day, including plays, short stories, poems, and novels, that deal on many levels with this idea of transformation and becoming as a road to understanding, through a lens of “literary alchemy” – a theory of physical and metaphysical change and transformation that includes the examination of such themes as birth, life, death, and regeneration; nature, science, and the supernatural; nurture and becoming; the Self and the Other; the individual and the collective; and isolation and relationships. By the end of the course, we will have acquired a basic vocabulary of literary terms and conventions… and we will also have undergone our own transformation as readers of literature. You may find that you never again look at reading, or yourself as a reader, in quite the same way.
Course Offerings, Fall 2013
English 101, College Writing I (Rhetoric and Composition)
English 105, Heroes and Monsters: Narratives of Identity and Alterity (Introduction to Narrative)
Course Description:
This course will provide a variety of critical lenses for considering the relationships between culture and narrative, focusing on the themes of heroism and monstrosity. Drawing on a selection of narratives ranging from epic poetry, medieval romance, and the gothic novel to middle-grade fantasy, YA paranormal romance, and the graphic novel, we will consider the relevance of stories and storytelling to our daily lives, how our narratives shape the roles we play in society, and the various conventions of identity and otherness that they reinforce or undermine. We’ll look closely at what constitutes a narrative, how narrative forms change and develop over time and between cultures, how narratives codify and subvert cultural beliefs, and how writers and readers use narrative to articulate their own ideologies. We will develop a vocabulary for discussing, analyzing, and writing about narrative documents. As we read the texts for this class, we will also be asking and constructing answers for the following questions: What is a hero? What is a monster? Can a hero be monstrous? Can a monster be heroic? What is the role of heroes and monsters in a culture? And finally, (why) do we need heroes and monsters?
Course Offerings, Spring 2013
English 101, College Writing I (Rhetoric and Composition)
Course Offerings, Fall 2012
English 101, College Writing I (Rhetoric and Composition)
Course Description:
The purpose of English 101 is to help you become a better writer and critical thinker through the study, analysis and application of foundational rhetorical principles to the common scholarly (one might even say simply, “human”) activities of reading, writing, listening, and response. By the end of the course, students will have extensively studied the rhetorical process and applied it to their writing. Course readings are chosen to help you understand the writing process and use structural tools more confidently, while class instruction and activities focus on reading rhetorically, choosing and developing an idea, paper organization, editing and peer editing, and the summarizing, quotation and paraphrasing, and proper documentation of source materials.
Previous Teaching Experience (Carlbrook School, 2002-2012)
Carlbrook was a year-round private boarding school with a teaching load of 6 courses per term, 5 terms per academic year (30 courses per year). Below is a list of the courses I taught there, many with links to their corresponding syllabus. Right-clicking on syllabus links will give you the option to open them in separate tabs as Word documents. If there is a course for which you do not see a syllabus link but would like a copy of the syllabus, please let me know.
Course Offerings, Term 3, 2012
The Literature of Genocide
AP Art History: 17-19th Century Art
Shakespeare’s Comedies
Tolkien and the Epic Tradition
Medieval British Literature
Women in Medieval Literature
Course Offerings, Term 2, 2012
AP Art History: Medieval/Renaissance Art
The “Other” in Shakespeare
Monsters in British Literature
Wicked Women in Literature
Mythology and Folklore
Arthuriana
Course Offerings, Term 1, 2012
Pilgrimage to Paradise (Chaucer, Malory, Spenser, Milton)
AP Art History: Greek & Roman Art & Architecture
Harry Potter & The Art Of The Allusion
The Bible and Literature
Epic Literature
Shakespeare’s Women
Course Offerings, Term 5, 2011
British Literature: The Victorians and the Moderns
Race and Ethnicity in Medieval Literature
Bad Boys in British Literature
Wicked Women in Literature (Witches and Bitches)
Arthuriana
AP Art History: 16th-19th Century Art
Course Offerings, Term 4, 2011
Lewis and Tolkien
Literature of Genocide
Creative Writing
AP Art History: Medieval & Renaissance Art
Shakespeare’s Comedies
British Romanticism
Course Offerings, Term 3 2011
English Renaissance Excluding Shakespeare
Research Methods
Greek and Roman Art & Architecture
19th and 20th century women’s writing
Monsters in British Literature
Tissues and Issues
Course Offerings, Term 2, 2011
Medieval British Literature
Epic Literature
Women’s Writing
Research Methods
Modern Art History
Shakespeare’s Latin Plays
Course Offerings, Term 1, 2011
The Bible and Literature
Viking Literature
Women in Medieval Literature
Irish Literature
From Pilgrimage to Paradise
Nonwestern Art History
Course Offerings, Term 5, 2010
Harry Potter and the Art of the Allusion
Wicked Women in Literature
Monsters in British Literature
The Victorians and the Moderns
The “Other” in Shakespeare
AP Art History: 17th-19th Century Art
Course Offerings, Term 4, 2010
Lewis and Tolkien
Literature of Genocide
Creative Writing
AP Art History: Medieval & Renaissance Art
Tissues and Issues: Female Archetypes in Literature
British Romanticism
Course Offerings, Term 3, 2010
Greek and Roman Art and Architecture
Arthuriana
Literature of the British Renaissance, excluding Shakespeare
Shakespeare’s Comedies
Women in Medieval Writing
Mythology and Folklore
Course Offerings, Term 2, 2010
Medieval and Renaissance Art
Medieval British Literature
Bad Boys in British Literature
Tolkien and the Epic Tradition
19th and 20th Century Women’s Writing
The Bible and Literature (New Course Offering)
Course Offerings, term 1, 2010
Early British Epic and Saga
Bad Boys in British Literature
Tissues and Issues (Female archetypes in literature)
Epic Literature (J.R.R. Tolkien and Nation Building in the Classical and Modern Epic Traditions)
Harry Potter and the Art of the Allusion (research methods class)
Greek and Roman Art and Architecture (Art History)
Course Offerings, Term 5, 2009
Children’s Literature (New Course Offering)
Irish Literature
Witches and Bitches in Literature
Literature of Genocide
Shakespeare’s Comedies
AP Art History: Art of the Nonwestern World
Course Offerings, Term 4, 2009
British Literature: Bad Boys in Medieval British Literature (new course offering)
Gendered Voices (New course offering)
British Romanticism
Mythology & Folklore
Creative Writing
AP Art History: Modern art
Course Offerings, Term 3 2009
British Literature: English Renaissance Excluding Shakespeare
19th & 20th Century Women Writers (New course offering)
Monsters and Violence in British Texts (New course offering)
19th Century Russian Prose
Performance Literature II: 19th and 20th Century Drama
AP Art History : 17th-19th Century Art and Architecture
Course Offerings, Term 2 2009
British Literature: Medieval (restructured course offering – new track)
Survey of Women in Medieval Literature (new course offering)
Tolkien’s Women: Female Archetypes in The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (new course offering)
French Literature: Survey Medieval – 19th Century
Performance Literature I: Theatre History, Classical – 17th-Century Drama
AP Art History: Medieval / Renaissance Art and Architecture
Course Offerings, Term I 2009
Early British Epic and Saga (Viking Literature) (New course offering)
Epic Literature
AP Art History: Greek and Roman Art and Architecture
Arthuriana
Tissues and Issues (Female Archetypes in Literature)
Course Offerings: 2008-2009
Irish Literature (new course offering)
Witches and Bitches in Literature (new course offering – Negative Female Archetypes)
Shakespearean Comedy (new course offering)
British Literature: The Renaissance Excluding Shakespeare (new course offering )
Mythology and Folklore
AP Art History: Nonwestern Art
British Literature: Arthuriana
Shakespeare’s Latin Plays
Early American Writing
Epic Literature
Women’s Writing
Greek & Roman Art & Architecture
British Literature I: Middle Ages – 17th Century
French Literature: Author Study-Alexandre Dumas
Asian-American Literature
Medieval/Renaissance Art History
Performance Literature I: Ancient Drama- 17th Century European Drama
17th-19th Century Art History
American Literature 1900-1945
British Literature II: Victorians and Moderns
Literature of Genocide
Creative Writing
Russian Prose
Lewis & Tolkien
Performance Literature II: 19th and 20th Century American and European Drama
Tissues & Issues: Female Archetypes in Literature
Mythology & Folklore
British Romanticism
Modern Art History
Courses: 2007-2008
Greek & Roman Art and Architecture
British Literature I: Middle Ages- 17th Century
Shakespeare’s Latin Plays
Epic Literature
Early American Writing
Women’s Literature
British Literature II: Victorians and Moderns
Performance Literature I: Ancient Drama- 17th Century European Drama
Medieval/Renaissance Art
American Literature 1865-1900
Literature of Genocide
French Literature: Author Study – Alexandre Dumas
Jewish-American Literature
Russian Prose
17th-19th Century Art History
American Literature 1900-1945
Performance Literature II: 19th-20th Century European and American Drama
British Romanticism
American Literature 1945-1975
Modern Art History
Asian-American Literature
Lewis & Tolkien
Nonwestern Literature
Courses: 2006-2007
Performance Literature II: 19th & 20th Century Drama in Europe and America
Contemporary American Literature
British Literature III: Romanticism
Epic Literature
Greek & Roman Art & Architecture
Women’s Literature
African-American Literature
French Literature
Shakespeare’s Latin Plays
American Literature 1865-1900
Medieval/Renaissance Art
British Literature I: Middle Ages-17th Century
Performance Literature I: Survey Ancient Drama – 17th Century European Drama
American Literature 1900-1945
British Literature II: Victorians and Moderns
17th-19th Century Art History
Russian Prose
Literature of Genocide
Jewish-American Literature
Performance Literature II: 19th-20th Century European and American Drama
World Literature Special Topics: Vikram Seth & The Modern Indian Novel
American Literature 1945-1975
British Literature III: The Romantics
Modern Art
Art of the Nonwestern World
Contemporary American Fiction
Creative Writing
Nonwestern Literature
Lewis & Tolkien
Asian-American Literature
Courses: 2005-2006
Performance Literature II: 19th & 20th Century Drama in Europe and America
Contemporary American Literature
British Literature III: Romanticism
Epic Literature
Greek & Roman Art & Architecture
Women’s Literature
African-American Literature
French Literature
Shakespeare’s Latin Plays
American Literature 1865-1900
Medieval/Renaissance Art
British Literature I: Middle Ages-17th Century
Performance Literature I: Survey Ancient Drama – 17th Century European Drama
American Literature 1900-1945
British Literature II: Victorians and Moderns
17th-19th Century Art History
Russian Prose
Literature of Genocide
Jewish-American Literature
Courses: 2004-2005
Epic Literature
Early American Literature
Women’s Literature
Russian Literature
American Literature: 1865-1900
African-American Literature
French Literature
American Literture 1900-1945
British Literature I: Middle Ages-Renaissance
Literature of Genocide
Nonwestern Literature
American Literature 1945-1975
British Literature II: Victorians and Moderns
Performance Literature I: Survey Ancient Drama- 18th Century European Drama
AP Art History: 17th-19th century art
AP Art History: Greek and Roman Art
AP Art History: Medieval/Renaissance Art
AP Art History: Nonwestern Art
AP Art History: Modern Art
French History
Courses: 2003-2004
French I (2 sections)
French III
French IV
French IV/AP: Sample examinations
Creative Writing (2 sections)
Russian Prose (3 sections)
Nonwestern Literature (3 sections)
Courses taught prior to 2003:
French 201-D05, Intermediate Fr I, College of William and Mary. TA, responsible for creating and implementing once-weekly discussion sessions for 16 students. 1995
French 201-D07, College of William and Mary. TA, responsible for creating and implementing once-weekly discussion sessions for 4 students. 1997
English 10, 10 honors, 11 honors, 12 – Nottoway County High School, Nottoway, VA 1997-1999
French 1-IV AP – Nottoway High School, Nottoway, VA 1997-1999
French I – R.L. Hardy Middle School, Washington, D.C. 1999-2000
French I, II, III – Kennedy High School, Richmond, VA 2000-2001
Spanish I, II – Chandler Middle School, Richmond, VA 2000-2001
French I – Henderson Middle School, Richmond, VA 2001-2002
Creative Writing – Henderson Middle School, Richmond, VA 2001-2002
French I – Binford Middle School, Richmond, VA 2001-2002
French I-AP, Spanish I-III, Latin I – The Carlbrook School, Halifax County, Virginia, 2002-2003
Melissa Ridley Elmes 