At Florida State University, my Introduction to Shakespeare course (ENL 3334) immersed students in works from Shakespeare’s major dramatic and non-dramatic genres. The course focused on how Shakespeare’s works relate to the contexts of his times, including attention to race, gender, and sexuality. We also considered the ways historical and contemporary performances adapt and alter Shakespeare.
In Women in Literature: Gender and the Gothic Novel (LIT 3383), students read works by Matthew Lewis, Ann Radcliffe, Mary Shelley, and Charlotte Brontë. We discussed the works from the perspectives of feminist and queer theory and situated them in their contemporary contexts (with readings from, for example, Mary Astell, newspaper accounts of passing women, Mary Prince, and Sojourner Truth).
My most recent composition course (ENC 1101, Summer 2016), took gender and embodiment as the course theme. Students composed a personal narrative related to embodiment, analyzed the interaction of multiple media in contemporary popular culture sources (such as advertisements), and created their own multimodal final project.
I have also taught an introductory short story class on science fiction short stories about the future (LIT 2020), and I have taught courses in the interdisciplinary humanities (HUM 2020: The Art of Being Human; HUM 2235: Humanities from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment) and writing and editing in print and online (ENC 3416). I served as a teaching assistant in an online section of HUM 2020 taught by Allen Romano, whose innovative online teaching strategies won him a Florida State University Office of Distance Learning Award for the course.
At Yale, I had the opportunity to serve as a Teaching Fellow for Marijeta Bozovic and Marta Figlerowicz’s interdisciplinary course Internet Cultures (Spring 2018), which dealt with the history of the internet, network theory, and the current cultural implications of our online worlds.
In the past, I also taught introductory composition at James Madison University (2009-10), and I served as a teaching assistant in English as a Second Language summer courses at Shenandoah University (2008, 2009, 2010).
Instead of pushing for one way of thinking about our readings and lectures, Marie encouraged us to bring in ideas from our own backgrounds and studies, ultimately leading to a richer and more productive conversation. I looked forward to each section as an opportunity to have an in-depth discussion about a topic of interest within a course that could sometimes seem overwhelming in its breadth. Marie provided thoughtful and useful feedback on our weekly reading responses and major assignments, and I appreciated her taking the time to meet with us individually about our final projects.
-Internet Cultures student, 2018
I enjoyed working with a women oriented feminist lens and as a nonbinary individual I appreciated being able to bring that focus and experience into the discussion and feel welcome to explore those ideas. I was thankful for the openness to make space for non-normative ideas to be explored and discussed and enjoyed learning in Marie’s class.
-Women in Literature student, 2015
I recommend Marie as a teacher. She was patient with international students who do not understand English very well. I used to be an international student and was afraid to talk but she was patient so I never felt embarrassed to express myself in English.
-English as a Second Language student, 2010
