Teaching

At Washington University, I designed and taught an interdisciplinary writing course, “Dreams and Nightmares,” as a cultural and literary genealogy of dreams from the early twentieth-century through the present. Course materials included foundational works of psychoanalysis, short stories by Kafka and Borges, Charlotte Beradt’s journalism about dreams under the Third Reich, and Ottessa Moshfegh’s novel My Year of Rest and Relaxation alongside non-text materials like surrealist painting and film.

In my current role at the Sorbonne Nouvelle, I teach Anglophone literature to a majority English language learner student population in introductory courses in “Writing Poetry and Theater,” “Writing Nature,” and “Writing History.” Informed by my research background, I approach English-language texts from a comparative perspective.