Areas of Interest

Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literature, romanticism, drama, theatre history, the gothic, women’s writing, electronic literature, digital literacy.

Positions Held

Teaching Fellow, Department of English, UCLA, 2007
Instructional Technology Consultant, Center for Digital Humanities, UCLA, 2004-05
Teaching Associate, Department of English, UCLA, 2003-04
Teaching Associate, Department of English, UCLA, 2001-02
Teaching Assistant, Department of English, UCLA, 2000-01

Courses Taught

As Instructional Technology Consultant:

Advised and trained TAs and professors on instructional tools; customized course websites, scanned documents, prepared multimedia for web-delivery; researched online services like ArtStor (image database) and Turnitin (plagiarism prevention); authored and maintained websites providing help and resources to students and faculty.

As Instructor:

Designed syllabus, assignments, and course readers; lectured and led discussion twice a week for two hours; designed course websites and moderated online discussion boards; held student conferences; graded quizzes, exams, and papers; assigned course grades.

Composition, Rhetoric, and Language (English 3, UCLA)

• “Heroism, Violence, and Culture”: introduction to university-level composition with intensive focus on developing and structuring ideas for argumentative essays. Readings and discussions explored the interrelation between heroic ideals and violence in a variety of cultures, from ancient Greek to modern Native-American and Chinese-American.
• Winter 2002, Fall 2003.

Critical Reading and Writing (English 4W, UCLA)

• “Reading the Gothic Across Genres, Across Time”: introduction to the study of literature with intensive focus on writing argumentative essays and understanding literary terminology. Coursework explored gothic tropes and themes in poetry, drama, short stories, novels, and film, asking students to probe their own anxieties along with those expressed in literature.
• Winter 2004, Summer 2004, Winter 2007.
  

As Teaching Assistant / Section Leader:

Led two weekly, one-hour discussion sections; contributed essay and exam prompts; moderated online discussion boards; held student conferences; graded quizzes, exams, and papers; assigned course grades.

British Literature to 1660 (English 10A, UCLA)

• Part one of a year-long survey course for English majors, covering Old English and writers such as Chaucer, Shakespeare, Sidney, and Milton.
• Professor Gordon Kipling (Fall 2001).

British Literature 1660-1832 (English 10B, UCLA)

• Part two of a year-long survey course for English majors, covering writers such as Dryden, Behn, Pope, Swift, Wordsworth, the Shelleys, and Austen.
• Guest lecture, “Frankenstein as Myth and as Mary Shelley’s Response to Romanticism,” May 2002.
• Professor Helen Deutsch (Spring 2002) and Professor Jayne Lewis (Winter 2001).

British Literature 1832 to Present (English 10C, UCLA)

• Part three of a year-long survey course for English majors, covering writers such as the Brontës, Tennyson, Browning, Eliot, Woolf, and Ishiguro.
• Professor Jonathan Grossman (Spring 2004) and Professor Joseph Bristow (Summer 2003).

Major American Authors (English 80, UCLA)

• Survey course for non-majors, covering writers such as Bradstreet, Hawthorne, Melville, Dickinson, and Oates.
• Dr. Luke Bresky (Spring 2001) and Dr. Emily Schiller (Fall 2000).

Sample Syllabi and Teaching Materials

Restoration and 18th-Century British Literature (PDF)
Romantic British Literature (PDF)
British Literature since 1800 (PDF)
18th Century British Novel (coming soon)
19th Century British Novel (coming soon)
Genre Studies: The Afterlife of the Gothic Novel (PDF)
Individual Author: Austen and the 18th Century Novel (PDF)
Composition, Rhetoric, and Language (Intro to Comp) (PDF)
Critical Reading and Writing (Intro to Literary Studies) (PDF)
Discussion Section Policy Sheet (PDF)
Instructions for Using Website Discussion Board (PDF)