Teaching

Courses Taught at St. John's University
Undergraduate Courses 

  • Native American Literature (senior seminar)
  • African-American Literature to 1900
  • Transcendentalism
  • Antebellum Reform Movements (senior seminar)
  • Literature in a Global Context
  • Introduction to Literary Theory
  • Introduction to English Studies
  • Reading the Romance 
  • Poe / Melville 
  • Antebellum Literature
  • Colonial U.S. Literature
  • U.S. Literature to 1865   
  • U.S. Literature survey

Graduate Courses

  • Rescuing Melodrama in Nineteenth Century Literature
  • High/Low in African-American Folk Literature
  • Native American Literature and Fiction
  • Transcendentalism
  • Literary Theory 
  • Dickinson / Whitman
  • U.S. Realism and Naturalism
  • American Sublime
  • Antebellum Literature 
  • Colonial U.S. Literature