Teaching
I try to encourage students to feel comfortable with complexity, to inspire them to follow their intellectual curiosity, to offer strategies for improving and revising their writing, and to help them remember they are humans as well as students.
For the longer version, you can read the following documents:
To see how these ideas influence the courses I teach and the way I approach them, you may want to view the class websites.
Current Courses
- ENG 401: Graphic Representations of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflicts
- WRD 111: Composition and Communication II
- A&S 300: Rhetoric Between Athens and Jerusalem
- English 771: Chasing Zion: Black and Jewish Narratives of Identity, Exile, and Home
- A & S 100: Section 017: Composition and Communication
Undergraduate Courses Taught at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- Writing in the Digital Age Spring 2010
- Representing Israel and Its Conflicts Fall 2009
- Writing in the Digital Age Fall 2009
- Writing in the Digital Age Spring 2009
- Writing in the Digital Age Spring 2008
- Writing to the World Wide Web Spring 2007
- Writing to the World Wide Web Fall 2006
Graduate Courses Taught at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- Rhetoric, Technology, and Culture Spring 2010
- Teaching Communication in Technologically-Mediated Contexts Fall 2007
Courses Taught at the University of Texas
- The Writing Process: Food for Thought and Writing About Food
- Women’s Popular Genres: Romance and Sentimentality
- Rhetoric and Composition
- Unfulfilled Promises in the Promised Land: The Rhetoric of Peace in the Middle East