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
- student troll stories from Spring 2014: http://blogs.ubc.ca/trolls
- 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.