Teaching Portfolio

Courses taught in literature, literary theory, and film.

General Literature and Literary Theory

  • Introduction to Literary Study
  • Introduction to Literature: Fiction | Drama | Poetry
  • Major Theories of Literary Criticism
  • Apocalypse Then: Literature and Culture of the 1990s
  • Twentieth-Century Asian-American Literature
  • The Literature of Terrorism
  • Disaster Narratives
  • Pirates and Princesses
  • Contemporary Realism(s)
  • Topics in Theory: Postcolonialism | Postmodernism | Sociohistoricism
  • Material Culture Studies and Cultural Materialism

English and Irish Literature

  • British Literature: Origins to 1600 | 1600–1832 | 1832–Present
  • Literary Romanticism
  • Modernism to Postmodernism
  • British Postmodern Fiction
  • Writing the Celtic Tiger: New Irish Literature & Culture
  • Irish Modernism
  • Contemporary Irish Literature
  • Major Authors: James Joyce
  • Major Authors: W.B. Yeats
  • The Irish Nobels: Shaw, Yeats, Beckett, Heaney

Film Studies

  • Form and Meaning in Film
  • Film History and Technique
  • Italian Neorealism and Beyond
  • Continuity & Discontinuity from Weine to Tarantino

A complete course list appears in my curriculum vitae (PDF).