Teaching
At Arizona State University, I've taught a variety of courses in the undergraduate and graduate programs, both in-person and online. I currently spend the majority of my time teaching in-person undergraduate classes and online MA classes.
One of my favorite undergraduate classes to teach is
Love, Lust, and Desire in Early Modern England, which fulfills a major requirement in gender and sexuality studies. In this class, we trace the many forms of love and desire that animate English Renaissance literature, beginning with the Henrician love poems of Sir Thomas Wyatt and the Earl of Surrey, and ending with the erotic verse of The Earl of Rochester and Aphra Behn. Along the way, we consider poetry by the likes of Sidney, Spenser, Queen Elizabeth I, Barnfield, Wroth, Donne, and Philips, alongside Shakespeare's Twelfth Night and Othello and Cavendish's The Convent of Pleasure.
Another favorite undergraduate course is Hamlet and Its Afterlives. In this seminar, we slowly read Hamlet across the initial weeks of the class, becoming well versed in the play's many intricacies and mysteries. We then situate Hamlet in its cultural moment, by historicizing early modern concepts like revenge, madness, ghosts, suicide, and gender relations; we also consider the play alongside contemporary works like The Spanish Tragedy and The Revenger's Tragedy. Finally, we conclude the class by reading various modern adaptations of Hamlet, such as Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Updike's Gertrude and Claudius, Al-Bassam's The Al-Hamlet Summit, and Klein's Ophelia.
Beyond undergraduate teaching, I'm also very invested in helping graduate students around the world with their research on early modern emotion and/or early modern neurodiversity. If your institution allows it, I'm happy to serve as an outside member on graduate committees. If you'd like to work with me, or would like to simply chat about your research, please don't hesitate to get in touch!