Teaching
Statement of Teaching Philosophy Approaching education and knowledge production as civic responsibilities, I invite my students to engage the same critical issues in the classroom that I explore in my research. Consequently, my courses turn on themes of Indigeneity, settler colonialism, race, and decolonization; culture, identity, and belonging; the ethics of representation and power; and the multiple ways Indigenous and ethnic American writers have variously revised, contested, and imagined alternatives to dominant narratives across history. By authorizing a wide range of voices and experiences in the classroom, I challenge students to critically embrace the unfamiliar and uncomfortable, to productively unsettle their own relationships to the status quo, to consider how positionality facilitates or restricts access to the structures of social power and privilege, and to collectively imagine decolonized and liberationist futures. Doing so exposes us to that unstable yet enormously creative space where knowledge is built rather than possessed; where self, community, and relationality are always in the process of being formed, contested, and remade; and where genuine social transformation becomes possible. Ultimately, I'm invested in how literature and cultural production shows us how to be responsible descendants to those who have come before and productive future ancestors for those who come after. Courses
- ENG 244: Introduction to Native American Literatures
- ENG 245: Introduction to Ethnic American Literatures
- ENG 365: Race, Nation, and Modernist Form in the Ethnic American Bildungsroman
- ENG 361: Native American Writers (Novel)
- ENG 361: Native American Writers (Nationhood, Sovereignty, Story, and Place)
- ENG 361: Native American Writers (Contemporary Indigenous Women's Writing)
- ENG 488/588: Native American Literature and Film (Race and Film)
- ENG 488/588: Contemporary Indigenous Cinema
- ENG 660: Race, Nation, and the Politics of Belonging in the Ethnic American Bildungsroman
- ENG 660: Native American Writing from Allotment to the Renaissance, 1887-1968
- ENG 660: Native American Modernisms
- ENG 600: Contemporary Indigenous Literature and Theory