Elon University

Writing: Argument and Inquiry

  • First-year writing course on writing process strategies, argumentation, and research methods

  • Taught Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Fall 2024, & Spring 2025

  • Spring 2024 sections taught as community-engaged learning courses

  • ~20 students, all freshman from wide variety of majors

Literature from the Margins

  • Explores American novels and short fiction focusing on questions of gender, race and ethnicity, and economic marginalization

  • Taught Winter 2024 & 2025

  • ~30 students, mostly sophomores and juniors from a wide variety of majors

  • Cross-listed with American Studies

 

Duke University

Imagining American Health: Cultural Texts in Policy Contexts

  • Explores cultural expression, including photography, literature, and film, in the context of U.S. health policy from WIC to the Anti-Racism in Public Health Act

  • Features guest speakers on the policies related to food security, the ACA, gentrification, and racism in medicine

  • Taught in Fall 2022 & Fall 2023, & Fall 2024

  • ~15 students, all undeclared freshman enrolled in the FOCUS program

  • Cross-listed with Public Policy

Wild

  • Explores entanglements of various transatlantic conceptions of the wilderness in 19th and 20th century literature in relation to social, economic, and political forces

  • Taught in Spring 2013

  • Seminar designed as an introduction to the English major

  • Approx. 8 students, freshman through seniors in a variety of majors

Poetics of Poverty

  • Introduction to key goals and practices of academic writing through the study of voice in 19th and 20th century American literature on poverty

  • Taught in Fall 2011

  • Required writing course taught through the Thompson Writing program

  • Approx. 10 students, all freshman

 

Sacred Heart University

What Is the Common Good?

  • Introduction to college-level writing on non-fictional texts from ancient philosophy to public thought on the 21st-century U.S. economy

  • Taught in Fall 2021

  • Required seminar

  • Approx. 20 students, all freshman from a wide variety of majors

Literature of Illness and Healing

  • Primary focus on stories of illness and healing outside of institutional care in the post-Reaganomics landscape

  • Taught in Fall 2021

  • English honors course

  • Approx. 13 students, mostly juniors and seniors

Health, Poverty, and Literature

  • Examines twentieth-century American literature at the intersection of health and poverty through the lens of genre

  • Taught in Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Spring 2021

  • Required core English course designed to introduce students to literary genre, including poetry, fiction, and drama

  • Approx. 20 students, all freshman from a wide variety of majors, but primarily in the health professions

Literary Research & Writing

  • Introduction to methods of academic research and writing

  • Taught in Spring 2021

  • Required course for English majors

  • Approx. 20 students, mostly sophomores and juniors

American Migrations

  • Introduction to college-level writing, focusing on depictions in American literature and culture of internal migrations in the U.S., from the Trail of Tears in 1838 and 1839 to the Great Migration

  • Taught in Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Spring 2021

  • Required seminar

  • Approx. 20 students, all freshman from a wide variety of majors

Literature Capstone

  • Research writing workshop with a focus on “amateur criticism” and contemporary autotheory

  • Taught in Fall 2020

  • Required course for English majors

  • Approx. 10 students, mostly seniors

American Literature for Elementary Education

  • Surveys American literature from the early national period to the present

  • Taught in Fall 2019

  • Required course for Elementary Education majors

  • Approx. 25 students, sophomores and juniors

 

The University of Texas at Austin

African American Literature and Culture

  • Focus on post-WWII African American literature and film

  • Taught in Fall 2017

  • Cross-listed with African and African American Studies

  • Seminar designed to introduced students to the methods of the discipline, focusing on four primary texts; not designed as a survey.

  • Approx. 17 students, freshman through seniors in a wide variety of majors

 

Brooklyn College, CUNY

Composition II

  • Required first-year course designed to introduce students to academic writing

  • Taught in Summer 2009

  • Approx. 10 students, including several ESL students, first-generation college students, and other non-traditional students.

Composition I

  • Required first-year course designed to introduce students to expository writing

  • Taught in Fall 2008 and Spring 2009

  • Approx. 18-20 students, including several ESL students, first-generation college students, and other non-traditional students