Courses and Units Taught

  • Advanced Fiction Writing;
  • Advanced Poetry Writing;
  • African-American Literature;
  • African-American Literature in the 20th Century; American Drama;
  • American Fiction; Beginning Poetry;
  • Critical Theory;
  • Constructions of Racial and Ethnic Identity [team-taught College Symposium];
  • Creative Non-fiction;
  • Dissenting Traditions in 20th-Century American Literature;
  • Expository Writing;
  • European Literature from Homer to Cervantes;
  • European Literature from Rabelais to Kafka;
  • Fiction in the United States;
  • Introduction to Aesthetics [team-taught];
  • Introduction to the Arts of China [team-taught];
  • Introduction to English Literature;
  • Introduction to Literature: Boundaries of Sanity;
  • Introduction to Literature: The Short Story;
  • Lifestories: Introduction to Creative Non-fiction;
  • Literary and Cultural Critique;
  • The Making of Modern American Writing: Stein, Hemingway, Faulkner;
  • Medieval Epic and Romance;
  • Modern American Poetry;
  • News Watch;
  • Poetry Writing;
  • Prose Writing;
  • Race and Ethnicity in America [team-taught];
  • Storytelling: An Introduction to Cross-Cultural Reading;
  • Survey of American Literature I;
  • Survey of American Literature II;
  • Three African Women Writers;
  • Women and Narrative;
  • Women’s Culture, Women’s World [team-taught];