Teaching Interests

19th- and 20th-century U.S. literature; globalization, transnationalism and culture; comics and graphic novels; travel writing and literary nonfiction; modern and postmodern narrative; American studies; cultural studies; writing.

Teaching Experience

Assistant Professor (Hampshire College):
Graphic Realities: Comics Narratives of Witness, Spring 2013
Moby-Dick and Its Afterlife, Spring 2010, Spring 2013
Literature and Culture of the Jazz Age, Fall 2009, Fall 2012
Occupy Wall Street: History, Theory, Practice (co-taught with Margaret Cerullo), Fall 2012
Reading the Graphic Novel, January Term 2012
American Studies: Theory and Practice, Spring 2011
Imperial Imaginations and Developmental Visions in the Modern Middle East (co-taught with Omar Dahi), Fall 2010
Comics Underground: Underground and Alternative Comics in the U.S., Fall 2010 Americans Abroad: U.S. Exceptionalism, Foreign Policy, and the Literary Imagination, Spring 2010

The 1950s: Cold War Culture and the Birth of the Cool (co-taught with Karen Koehler and Becky Miller), Fall 2009
Nonfiction and the Novel, Spring 2009
Atrocity and War in the Graphic Novel, Spring 2009
The Novel in the U.S., 1900-45, Fall 2008, Spring 2011
Americans Abroad: 19th- and 20th-Century Representations in Literature and Film, Fall 2008
Lecturer (Columbia University):
Literature Humanities (Core Curriculum), 2007-2008 Americans Abroad (English undergraduate seminar), 2008

Instructor (Columbia University):
University Writing, 2003-2005
Logic & Rhetoric, 2001-2002
Reading the Media, Barnard Pre-College Program, Barnard College, NY, 2001

Tutor: Teaching Assistant:
University Writing Center, Columbia University, 2003-2005
Literature of the Harlem Renaissance, Barnard College, 2006
Introduction to U.S. Latino Literature, Columbia University, 2004
American Fiction, Barnard College, 2002
James Joyce, Columbia University, 2001
Politics and American Film, Columbia University, 2000