I have taught many different types of content to students in a wide range of settings: math to Burkinabé middle schoolers in West Africa; ESL to Congolese refugees in North Carolina and Illinois; and composition, literature, and theory courses to undergraduate and graduate students at both large R1s and small liberal arts schools, urban and rural. Since 2023, I have been a part of the English department at Virginia Commonwealth University, where I frequently teach the department’s Intro to Literary Theory course and British Literature II survey, as well as several specialized courses on the eighteenth century and Romanticism. My favorite courses to teach are a single-author study of the works of Jane Austen, and a course that traces the development of the novel in English—the class that, when I took a similar course my senior year of college, first made me want to pursue a PhD. 

At both my previous institutions and VCU, I have participated in workshops and courses to encourage student-centered pedagogy, including those offered through VCU’s Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence and the Institute for Inclusive Teaching. In 2024, I also received VCU’s Lift Grant for “Teaching the Eighteenth Century with AI,” a project that aims to encourage critical discussion of LLMs between students through AI-incorporated assignments. My pedagogical research in this area is forthcoming in both Persuasions On-Line and Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture.