Teaching

In 2023, I was selected for the Killam Teaching Prize.

 

Courses Taught as Primary Instructor

Undergraduate

  • CENS 201: Contrasts & Conflicts – Witches
  • CENS 307: Witches: Myth & Reality
  • German 110Y: Elementary German
  • German 110: Elementary German I
  • German 120: Elementary German II
  • German 126H: Intensive Elementary German (Honors)
  • German 230: Intermediate German I
  • German 240: Intermediate German II
  • German 296: Directed Reading and Research
  • German 320: Advanced German II
  • German 349: Witches: Myth and Reality (featured in the “In the Classroom” series on the Amherst College website and in the Springfield Republican)
  • German 372: Viennese Modernism, 1880–1914
  • German 391G: German & Scandinavian Junior Seminar (Junior Year Writing)
  • German 425: Advanced Composition and Conversation (Mysteries and Crime Stories)
  • German 499Y: Honors Research
  • Scandinavian 332A: Topics in Scandinavian Studies – Heroes in Nordic Literature and Film
  • Scandinavian 411A: Scandinavian Drama and Film
  • Scandinavian 412: The Northern European Epic
  • Scandinavian 415: The World of the Sagas
  • Swedish 110: Elementary Swedish I
  • Swedish 120: Elementary Swedish II
  • Swedish 196: Accelerated Elementary Swedish
  • Swedish 230: Intermediate Swedish I
  • Swedish 396: Contemporary Swedish Culture
  • Swedish 397A: Advanced Swedish I (Swedish Fantasies, Dreams, and Nightmares)
  • Swedish 397B: Advanced Swedish II (Young Voices)

Graduate

  • German 500A: German Studies Research Methods
  • German 510: Literary History
  • German 521: Viennese Modernism – German Cultural Studies
  • German 620: Graduate Stylistics
  • German 697E: Enlightenment 2.0
  • German 697N: Debating Contemporary Germany
  • German 698: Teaching Practicum
  • German 791B: Germanness in 18th- and 19th-Century German Literature

As Teaching Assistant

  • Communication 340: History of Film. Prof. Barton Byg. (ca. 115 students)
  • German 270: From Grimms to Disney: Germanic Fairy Tales and U.S. Popular Culture. Prof. Susan Cocalis. (ca. 200 students) Gen. Ed. Requirements: Arts/Literature.
  • German 363: Witches: Myth and Historical Reality. Prof. Susan Cocalis. (ca. 200 students) Gen. Ed. requirements: Interdisciplinary, Global Diversity.
  • German 397S: The Nordic Ideal: Romanticism, Politics, and the Arts in 19th- and 20th-Century Scandinavia. Prof. Sherrill Harbison. (ca. 20 students) Gen. Ed. requirement: Arts.
  • Women’s Studies 1010: Foundations of Women’s Studies. Prof. Colleen S. Bell.