Teaching

RHET105: ​“Writing and Research” (In person: Fall 2016, one section | Spring 2017, one section | Fall 2017, two sections | Spring 2018, one section | Fall 2018, one section | Spring 2019, one section | Fall 2023, one section, Spring 2024, one section) Enrollment: 19 

Instructor of Record. Focused on best practices for research and writing processes. Blackboard and technology 

elements, employed online and library research. Designed course to emphasize a range of writers from Virginia Woolf to 

Kiki Petrosino to Martin Luther King and multimodal projects.

RHET101: "Principles of Writing" (In person: Fall 2023, one section |Fall 2024, one section) Enrollment: 16

Instructor of Record. Focused on best practices for approaching writing. Canvas and technology elements. Designed course to emphasize student identity in relation to writing and capturing their voice, inspired by voices like Amy Tan, Joan Didion, and more.

RHET 102: “Principles of Research” (In person: Spring 2024, one section | Spring 2025, one section) Enrollment: 16 Instructor of Record. Focused on best practices for research and writing processes. Blackboard and technology elements, employed online and library research. Designed course to emphasize a range of writers from Virginia Woolf to Kiki Petrosino to Martin Luther King and multimodal projects.

RHET233: “Advanced Composition" (In person: Fall 2024, one section | Spring 2025, one section) Enrollment: 24

Instructor of Record. Focused on developing genre-rooted arguments of moderate complexity with a special topics format, including development of multimodal composition skills. Canvas and technology elements. Designed course to emphasize archiving the body in relation to themes of disability, race, and gender, inspired by voices like Ellen Samuels, Audre Lorde, and more.

CW 208: “Creative Nonfiction,” (In person: Fall 2025, one section) Enrollment: 16

Instructor of Record. Focused on students producing a series of creative nonfiction pieces, particularly the Ekphrastic Essay, Personal Essay, and Lyric Essay, as they sharpen their personal style. Course housed on Canvas with campus field trip elements. Designed to include a range of voices from James Baldwin to Joann Beard to Viet Thanh Nguyen.

ESE/ENGL 360 “Environmental Writing,” (In person: Spring 2026, one section) Enrollment: 20

Instructor of Record. Focused on developing students’ abilities to translate research, facts, concepts, and problems about/with the environment to various audiences. Course supports students’ efforts in topic definition, information gathering and linguistic craft. Research includes visits to campus sites and on-site interviewing. 

CW106: “​Introductory Poetry Writing,” (In person: Spring 2018, one section) Enrollment: 12

Instructor of Record. Focused on free verse and form in a workshop setting where students work to develop their personal style. Blackboard and technology elements. Designed course to include a range of voices from Rickey Laurentiis to Ada Limón to Mary Ruefle.

CW202: “​Advanced Topics in Creative Writing,” (In person: Fall 2018, one section) Enrollment: 12

Instructor of Record. Focused on an introduction to screenwriting. Blackboard and technology elements. Films studied included Get Out by Jordan Peele and The Lobster by Yorgos Lanthimos.

Resume & Cover Letter Workshop via USM’s Office of Compliance and Ethics, (September 2022) 

This one-hour workshop covers best practices for crafting a strong cover letter and resume, including but not limited to design elements, required and optional sections for each genre, and brief analysis of sample documents. Enrollment: varied

Business Communications Workshop  via USM’s Office of Compliance and Ethics, (November 2022) 

This one-hour workshop covers genres in business practices and technical writing processes that can make these genres more accessible including but not limited to design elements and direct, succinct diction and syntax. Enrollment: varied

Compression in Nonfiction, University of Southern Mississippi (March 2023) 

This generative nonfiction workshop invites attendees to investigate the effect of compression on the genre. Using Ross Gay’s “Tomato on Board” as a model, students began to write the kernels of flash nonfiction pieces and workshopped their ideas in small groups. Enrollment: 10

Get Lit! Literary Festival Docupoetics Workshop, (April 2023)

In this hybrid craft-talk workshop, attendees will investigate and generate ideas for exploring artifact, archive, and document as a means to explore a past, current, and future centered on a common theme, conflict, or concern relevant to the poet's interests. While general, this broad nature intends for this talk to apply to a variety of archives and subjects poets could seek to explore after attending and participating in this craft talk/workshop; however, I will root these generalities in the project I am currently developing. Enrollment: varied

Auburn University at Montgomery, Visiting Poet, (Fall 2023) 

This generative poetry workshop will help emerging poets find their voice through the use of centos. The workshop will read centos in the course of the workshop and then craft centos from provided literary journals

Get Lit! Literary Festival Inheriting Place - A Workshop - with Mary Leauna Christensen (Spring 2024)

This workshop, suitable for poets of all levels, invited attendees to consider intersections between family and place. Invoking poets such as Natasha Trethewey, Jihyun Yun, and Jake Skeets, workshoppers engaged in generative writing exercises that explore and expand definitions of home. Whether a specific house, town, or regional area, writers redefined their relationships to that place and/or excavate familial and ancestral landscapes they are still discovering. Workshop leaders, Mary and Katherine, shared their inherited places alongside brief poems with the workshop.

Punch Bucket Literary Festival with Mary Leauna Christensen and John Constantine Tobin (Fall 2024)

In this workshop, three poets discussed their approaches to writing about intergenerational trauma in poetry, nonfiction, and hybrid genres. Such approaches span Indigeneity and hybridity, war’s effects on family, and how queerness intersects with home environments. Workshop members explored sensitivities required to perform this work and the ethics of rendering personas of relatives living and dead. Using the practice of docupoetics and philosophical underpinnings of queer ecology, the workshop leaders strive to combat erasure of diverse intergenerational narratives in their work. This workshop was designed to generate new work through an offering of various prompts and writing strategies developed to explore such experiences through the lenses of mesh as poetic structure, by crafting poems from archival forms, and by excavating connections between geological features and family. Room for questions and dialogue was encouraged and allotted. Workshop facilitators shared their work from developing manuscripts connected to the workshop’s themes to encourage the workshop’s sense of community. Prompts worked across genres and called upon the work of Jake Skeets, Ilya Kaminsky, and C.A. Conrad.

Write Wilmington (Spring 2025) 

This online, generative poetry workshop focused on employing repetition in writing poetry.

University of Olivet Guest Lecture (Spring 2025) 

An online lecture and panel about the creative writing publishing industry.

    Winter Wheat Festival (Fall 2025) 

In this workshop, entitled “Writing Family in Creative Nonfiction,” attendees will explore the tension between creative nonfiction being a genre beholden to truth and the nature of that truth emerging through certain valences especially when writing about family. Participants will interrogate how one’s positions within a family, blood or found, complicates any attempt to render that family’s dynamics truthfully. This generative workshop will consider definitions of family, and briefly and collaboratively frame the unique constraints involved with writing about family. Likewise, we consider the risks and opportunities that creative nonfiction provides, and work to untangle the dialectic of writing as relationship between writer and reader v. writing as relationship between writer and family. Participants engage with brief excerpts from the likes of Naomi Shihab Nye, Richard Siken, and Mark Doty, then engage with generative prompts to write about their own family via lenses of queerness, archival research, and genre. 

ENG 333: “Technical Writing” (Online asynchronous: Summer 2022, one section | Spring 2023, two sections)

Instructor of Record. Focuses on workplace genre like resumes, cover letters, and more. Canvas elements. Most recent iterations include a focus on gender and disability in the workplace. Enrollment: 21

ENG 101: “Composition One” (Online hybrid: Fall 2021, two sections | Online asynchronous: Spring 2022, two sections)

Instructor of Record. Focuses on developing an awareness and ability to implement rhetorical strategies and consciousness of the writing practice. Enrollment: 21

ENG 102: “Composition Two” (Online asynchronous: Fall 2022, two sections)

Instructor of Record. Focuses on developing research and organization skills and incorporating them into the writing practice. Enrollment: 21

Educators: Michael Madonick, William Logan, Janice Harrington, Dr. Corey Van Landingham, Dr. Adam Clay, Dr. Angela Ball, Dr. Emily Stanback, Dr. Nicolle Jordan, Dr. Ery Shin, Michael Hofmann, Dr. Shane Wood, Dr. Kristi McDuffie

Peers: Jessica Tanck, Nick Molbert, Aumaine Smith, Mary Leauna Christensen, John Constantine Tobin, Liz Trueblood, Crystal Veronie, David Greenspan, Maddy Furlong