Teaching

Fields

English and German Romanticism; English Composition; Humanities Research Writing; German Language; Opera; Poetics and Versification; Contemporary Poetry; Literary Theory; Musicology; Idealist Philosophy; Modernism; Autobiography; Aesthetics; Science Fiction; Legal Writing; Victorian Novel, Epic Poetry

Experience

Department of English , The University of California, Santa Barbara

British Romantic Writers, 2008
The Younger Romantics: Shelley, Keats, and Byron, 2006
British Literature from 1789 to 1900, 2002
Science Fiction , Lecturer and Supervisor, 2000-2007
Darwin and the Nineteenth-Century Novel, Lecturer, 2000

Department of Comparative Literature, The University of California, Santa Barbara

Major Works of European Literature, Classical and Medieval, 2003-2005
Major Works of European Literature, Renaissance to Neoclassical, 2004
Major Works of European Literature, Romantic and Modern, 2003
Romantic Revolutions : Philosophy, History, and the Arts in Europe, 2002-2005

Writing Program, The University of California, Santa Barbara

Writing for the Humanities: Romanticism, Lecturer, 1997-2007
Writing for the Humanities: Modernism, Lecturer, 2006-2007
Writing for the Humanities: The European Enlightenment, Lecturer, 1999-2004
Writing for the Social Sciences: Globalization, Lecturer, 2005-2006
Writing for the Social Sciences: Haitian Culture and Society , Lecturer, 2002-2004
Writing for the Legal Profession , Lecturer, 2000-2004
Writing and the Research Process , Lecturer, 1997-2003
Academic Writing: The Modern World, Lecturer, 2005
Academic Writing, Classical Civilization, Lecturer, 2005
Academic Writing: Environmental Studies , Lecturer, 2003
Academic Writing: Art History , Lecturer, 2001
Academic Writing: Political Science, Lecturer, 1999-2001
Academic Writing, Lecturer and Supervisor, 1997-1998
Approaches to University Writing, Lecturer, 1997

Department of Rhetoric , The University of California, Berkeley

The Rhetoric of Sound: Poetry and Music, Lecturer, 1997
The Rhetoric of Autobiography, Lecturer, 1997

Department of English , Yale University

Modern Prose: Advanced Writing, Instructor, 1996
Reading and Writing Prose, Instructor, 1995
Introduction to Literary Study, Instructor, 1994-1996
The Modern British Novel, Teaching Fellow, 1988-1989

Bass Writing Program, Yale University

Daily Themes, Tutor, 1995, 1996
Writing Tutor, Calhoun College, 1995, 1996

Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures , Yale University

Opera in Germany: Mozart to Kurt Weill, Lecturer; 1993, 1996
Introductory German, Instructor, 1993, 1996
German for Reading, Course Chair and Instructor, 1989-1990, 1992-1995
Intermediate German, Instructor, 1992, 1994
The German Tradition: Goethe to Nietzsche, Teaching Fellow, 1988

The Literature Major and the Department of Classics, Yale University

Myth, Science, and Philosophy in Classical Antiquity, Teaching Fellow, 1987, 1989