Courses Taught

Digital Humanities

  • Digital Storytelling: Beyond the Page
  • Introduction to Digital Literary Studies
  • Talk Show: The Art of Conversation from Plato to Facebook to Fallon
  • The American Tradition of the Interview—Celebrity and the Media
  • Honors Explore Chicago: Telling Chicago Stories
  • Explore Chicago: Telling Chicago Stories

Literature & Liberal Studies

  • Reading Prose
  • Multicultural Voices in U.S. Literature and Film
  • Social Justice in Contemporary Nonfiction and Documentary Film
  • Ethnic American Literature
  • American Literature and Social Justice
  • Discover Chicago: Writing Chicago Neighborhoods
  • American Lives: The American Tradition of the Literary Interview—Craft and Celebrity in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Literature
  • Interpretation of Literature
    • Race, Ethnicity, and the American Dream in U.S. Literature
    • Body Trouble: Women, Gender, and Sexuality in U.S. Literature
    • Images of Women in U.S. Literature
    • Being Human: Identity in U.S. Literature
    • Writing from the American Margins
    • Beyond Montaigne: The Essay in World Literature
    • Multicultural U.S. Literature
    • Speculative Fiction

Creative Writing

Nonfiction

  • Reading and Writing Creative Nonfiction
  • Advanced Creative Nonfiction
  • The Art of the Review and the Interview
  • Advanced Creative Nonfiction
  • Intermediate Creative Nonfiction
  • The Art of the Interview
  • Beyond Writer’s Block
  • The Craft of Creative Nonfiction

Fiction

  • Engaged Storytelling (narrative that engages with social justice issues) 
  • Advanced Fiction Writing
  • Intermediate Fiction Workshop
  • Beginning Fiction Writing
  • Reading and Writing Fiction
  • Fiction Writing Workshop

Multigenre & Poetry

  • Conflict, Tension, Risk
  • The Art of Writing for TV and the Internet
  • The Writer at Work: Deep Revision
  • Introduction to Creative Writing
  • Advanced Poetry
  • Beginning Poetry