Courses Taught (2006-2021)

Lecturer, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Liberal Arts
SocSci 2208 – De-Humanics: Don’t Call Us Animals

Lecturer, Chico State University Philosophy & Religious Studies
PHIL 209 – The Meaning of Life (40, 40, 40)
PHIL 323 – Moral Issues in Parenting (30, 30, 30)
PHIL 327 – Health Ethics (23)
PHIL 337 – Philosophy of Race (30)
PHIL/RELS339 – Confronting the Animal: Theory, Culture & Practice (30, 30, 30, 30)
PHIL 341 – Justice & Global Issues (23)

Lecturer, UC Davis American Studies, English & Comparative Literature
AMS 55 – Food in American Culture (40, 40, 265, 40, 250, 40, 250, 275)
AMS 155 – Eating in America (80, 80)
AMS 157 – Animals in American Culture (40, 80, 80)
AMS 25 – The United States as a Business Culture (40, 40)
ENL 149 – Eco Disney (35)
ENL 160 – Film as Narrative: Eco-Disaster Capitalism (80)
ENL 3 – Introduction to Literature (25, 25)
COM 3 – Introduction to Literature: The Modern Crisis (25)

Assistant Professor/Associate Faculty, Ashford University (U Arizona Global)
ENG 225 – Introduction to Film (35 students, 20+ sections)
ENG 125 – Introduction to Literature (35 students, 20+ sections)
ENG 202 – American Literature After 1865 (10, 10)
ENG 346 – British Literature, Romantic-Modernism (10)

Postdoctoral Fellow, Rice University
HURC 310 – Cinematics: The Ecological Paradigm (30)
FWIS 131 – First-Year Writing: Texts Against Humanity (15)

Associate Instructor, UC Davis Comparative Literature
COM 4 – Nonhuman Forms “after” 1945: The Age(s) of M.A.D. (25, 25, 25)
COM 4 – What is a Text? Nonhuman Genres Since Dracula (25, 25, 25)
COM 4 – Contemporary Literature: Global Environments (25, 25, 25, 25)
COM 3 – Nonhuman objects of the long 19th century (25)
COM 1 – Ecological Sense in the Ancient World (25, 25, 25)

Teaching Associate, San Francisco State University Humanities
HUM 225 – Values in American Life (50, 50)

Instructor, UC Davis Extension International English Programs
Intercultural Research Project
Research Paper
Advanced Composition
US Society & Culture
Intermediate Composition
Expressions & Idioms
Academic Preparation Skills
Reading & Vocabulary