In 2023, I was selected for the Killam Teaching Prize.
Courses Taught as Primary Instructor
F = Fall, S = Spring, Su = Summer
UBC = University of British Columbia, UMA = UMass Amherst, AC = Amherst College, SC = Smith College
Undergraduate
- CENS 201: Contrasts & Conflicts – Witches (UBC, S2013, S2014)
- CENS 307: Witches: Myth & Reality (UBC, S2015, S2016, F2016, F2017, F2018, F2019)
- German 110Y: Elementary German (SC, F2007, S2008)
- German 110: Elementary German I (UMA, F2002, S2005)
- German 120: Elementary German II (UMA, S2003, Su2003)
- German 126H: Intensive Elementary German (Honors) (UMA, F2008)
- German 230: Intermediate German I (UMA, F2003, F2005)
- German 240: Intermediate German II (UMA, S2004, S2006)
- German 296: Directed Reading and Research (UMA, S2012)
- German 320: Advanced German II (UMA, S2012)
- German 349: Witches: Myth and Reality (AC, F2011) (featured in the “In the Classroom” series on the Amherst College website and in the Springfield Republican [PDF file, 1MB])
- German 372: Viennese Modernism, 1880-1914 (UMA, S2010, F2010, F2011)
- German 391G: German & Scandinavian Junior Seminar (Junior Year Writing) (UMA, F2010, F2011)
- German 425: Advanced Composition and Conversation (Mysteries and Crime Stories) (UMA, S2009, S2011)
- German 499Y: Honors Research (UMA, F2011)
- Scandinavian 332A: Topics in Scandinavian Studies – Heroes in Nordic Literature and Film (UBC, S2014, F2014)
- student troll stories from Spring 2014: http://blogs.ubc.ca/trolls
- Scandinavian 411A: Scandinavian Drama and Film (UBC, F2012, F2013, F2014, F2015, S2018, S2020)
- Scandinavian 412: The Northern European Epic (UBC, F2012)
- Scandinavian 415: The World of the Sagas (UBC, F2016, S2019)
- Swedish 110: Elementary Swedish I (UMA, F2006, F2008)
- Swedish 120: Elementary Swedish II (UMA, S2007, S2009)
- Swedish 196: Accelerated Elementary Swedish (UMA, F2009)
- Swedish 230: Intermediate Swedish I (UMA, F2009)
- Swedish 396: Contemporary Swedish Culture (UMA, S2011)
- Swedish 397A: Advanced Swedish I (Swedish Fantasies, Dreams, and Nightmares) (UMA, F2006)
- Swedish 397B: Advanced Swedish II (Young Voices) (UMA, S2007)
Graduate
- German 500A: German Studies Research Methods (UBC, F2017, F2019)
- German 510: Literary History (UBC, S2013, S2015, F2018)
- German 521: Viennese Modernism – German Cultural Studies (UBC, F2013, S2016)
- German 620: Graduate Stylistics (UMA, S2009)
- German 697E: Enlightenment 2.0 (UMA, F2009)
- German 697N: Debating Contemporary Germany (UMA, S2009)
- German 698: Teaching Practicum (UMA, F2008, F2011)
- German 791B: Germanness in 18th- and 19th-Century German Literature (UMA, S2011)
As Teaching Assistant
- Communication 340: History of Film. Prof. Barton Byg. UMA F2004. (ca. 115 students)
- German 270: From Grimms to Disney: Germanic Fairy Tales and U.S. Popular Culture. Prof. Susan Cocalis. UMA S2005, S2008. (ca. 200 students) Gen. Ed. Requirements: Arts/Literature.
- German 363: Witches: Myth and Historical Reality. Prof. Susan Cocalis. UMA F2006, F2007. (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. UMA F2006. (ca. 20 students) Gen. Ed. requirement: Arts.
- Women’s Studies 1010: Foundations of Women’s Studies. Prof. Colleen S. Bell. S2001. Hamline U.