This spring I am teaching a special topics course at Spelman on Caribbean Women Writers. I’m so excited to study some of my favorite authors with upper-level Spelman students. Check out our syllabus below and stay tuned for course updates! Cover image: Sybil Atteck, Bele
Month: January 2019
In the fall of 2018, I taught a first-year writing course at Spelman College. Our topic, American Selfie, explored representations of self in literature, media, and pop culture. Assignments included composition essentials like the Selfie Culture Position Piece, which asked students to write a persuasive essay arguing about the harms and benefits of selfie culture, …
In the spring of 2018 I had the opportunity to teach an Irish Studies course at Emory. It was such a pleasure to teach some of the texts and issues that kick started my own graduate studies! Scroll down for our syllabus and a glimpse inside our classroom.
In 2015, I had the opportunity to help Rose Library director Rosemary Magee and curator Kevin Young unpack a new acquisition of Flannery O’Connor materials. I was amazed at the wit, intelligence, and introspection these boxes contained. As I sorted through this wealth of materials, I uncovered a journal that would become one of my …
Emory acquired a series of letters written from Barack Obama to his then-girlfriend Alexandra McNear between 1982 and 1984. I’ve had the opportunity to study each of these nine letters and was moved by their intelligence, sensitivity, and wisdom. They reveal a man of letters engaged in formative dialogue with himself and the world around …
Check out the course website for ENG 101! In the spring of 2016, I participated in Emory’s Domain of One’s Own Initiative. This program fosters digital literacy by helping students build their own websites and curate their own multimedia portfolios. I designed a first year writing course with major digital assignments prompting students think critically about travel. …
Fall 2015 I taught a section of Writing about Literature on Haunted Ireland. This course explored the supernatural in Irish literature and culture. Highlights included holding a mock-trial about a witch burning, reading Sheridan LeFanu’s lesbian vampire novella Carmilla, and exploring Irish-language mermaid poems. For their final, student completed a research project on the supernatural …
You can read my article “Performing Hospitality in Elizabeth Bowen’s A World of Love” in New Hibernia Review vol. 24, no. 1. In this piece, I read Bowen’s lesser-known Big House novel and conclude that her version of hospitality is ultimately a mechanism for upholding colonial power structures. A version of this article is forthcoming …
In 2016, I curated an exhibition at Poets House in New York City with Kevin Young. This exhibition coincided with the centenary of Ireland’s Easter Rising and reconsidered the role of writers in the rebellion. I loved creating an exhibition in this beautiful space and spending time with Emory’s wonderful Irish literary collections. I received …
Together with my colleague Aaron Goldsman and Professor Kevin Young, I curated the exhibition “The Dream Machine: The Beat Generation & the Counterculture, 1940-1975.” This show ran from September 2017 to June 2018 at Emory University’s Schatten Gallery in the Robert W. Woodruff Library. The exhibition reconsidered postwar literature and the ways it mirrored, predicted, …
