Teaching interests include interdisciplinary courses on American literature and culture, East Asian popular culture, African American literature and culture, Ethnic Studies and special topics for undergraduate and graduate students as well as supervising student research.
Longwood University
Undergraduate Course
COMM 345 Media Globalization
Undergraduate Student Research (Faculty Mentor)
De’Siree Fairley. “The Weight of Fan Labor on Johnny’s Fans.” 2017-18.
Elon University
Undergraduate Courses
ENG 110 Writing: Argument and Inquiry (formerly College Writing)
ENG 223 American Literature I
ENG 224 American Literature II
ENG 238 African American Literature to 1945
ENG 255 Special Topics: Topics include Detective Fiction, Science Fiction, Historical Asian Fiction & Film
ENG 328 Modernism
ENG 337 Asian Literature of Social Change
ENG 355 The Harlem Renaissance
ENG 359 African American Novels: Afro-Modernism, Black Aesthetic, Post-Soul
ENG 370 The Atlantic World
AMS 210 Concepts in American Studies
GST 239 The Korean Wave
Undergraduate Student Research (Faculty Mentor)
Michelle Brew Baxter. “Transnational Masculinity in the Korean Male Idol Group SHINee.” 2011.
Dissertation Committee (Member)
Heidi R. Lewis, “’She still missed her daddy sometimes’: Black Women’s Post-Civil Rights Father-Daughter Narratives.” American Studies. Purdue University, 2011.
University of Kansas
Undergraduate Courses
AMS 101 Understanding America (Introduction to American Studies-Honors)
AMS 344 Visual Culture and the Harlem Renaissance
AMS 550 Research Seminar: Topics include Speculative Fiction and American Culture, The Transnational, Comparative Ethnic Studies
Selected Undergraduate Student Research (Faculty Mentor)
Christie Guenther. “Japanese and White Americans in the United States.” 2007.
Cynthia Henry. “Is Globalization the Answer to America’s Problems?” 2007.
Colleen Klein. “The Plight of African Americans in World War II.” 2007.
Emily Cummings. “Japanese Hybridity.” 2006.
Sean McHenry. “Social Noise: The Vilification of Heavy Metal.” 2006.
Graduate Courses
AMS 802 Theorizing America
AMS 998 Seminar: The Post Soul Aesthetic
Ohio University
Undergraduate Courses
ENG 153B Writing and Reading: Topics include African American Literature and African American Speculative Fiction
ENG 327 African American Fiction: Survey and topics including Tales of African American Migration, Satire in the African American Novel, Ellison’s Invisible Man
ENG 328 African American Poetry: Survey and topics including The Function of Black Art, Legacies in African American Poetry
ENG 329 African American Drama: Survey and topics including The Family in African American Drama
ENG 465 Major American Authors: William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom!
Graduate Courses
ENG 570 Tricksters in African American Literature
ENG 570 African American Responses to Faulkner
ENG 570 The Post Soul Aesthetic
M.A. Theses (Supervisor)
Heidi Freeman, “Father-Daughter Relationships in African American Fiction.” 2005.
Henrry Lezama, “Brer Rabbit’s Venezuelan Cousin: From Folktale Badman in Rafael Rivero Oramas’ El Mundo de Tio Conejo to Cultural Hero in Antonio Arraiz’ Tio Tigre y Tio Conejo.” 2003.
Dissertation Committees (Member)
Eric Freeze, “Ridgeview” (Creative Dissertation). 2004.
Sachi Nakachi, “Mixed-Race Identity Politics of Nella Larsen and Onoto Watanna.” 2002.
Reading Examination Committees (Member)
Eric Freeze, Short story and literary tradition of African American women writers.
Desirae Martin, 20th century American literature and literary tradition of nonfiction.
Sweet Briar College
Undergraduate Courses
HNRS 158 Panthers and Dragons: The Asian/African-American Connection in American Culture
HNRS 159 The Immigration Experience
HNRS 164 “It Takes A Nation of Millions:” U.S. Civil Rights Movements
HNRS 165 American Studies at the Millennium
Summer Undergraduate Student Research (Faculty Mentor)
Nahliah Webber. “Algerian Women and Post-colonialism.” 2001.
Allison Gross. “Postmodernism and Don Delillo’s Fiction.” 2000.
