Teaching experience

Sessional Lecturer |
Dept. of English Language & Literature, University of Waterloo (2021-present)

ARTS 190: Communication for the Engineering Profession
ENGL 109: Introduction to Academic Writing
ENGL 191: Communication for the Engineering Profession
ENGL 192: Communication for the Engineering Profession
ENGL 193: Communication in the Sciences
ENGL 200B: Survey of British Literature II, 1780–present

Teaching Assistant (Doctoral) |
University of Waterloo (2018-2023)

ENGL 109: Introduction to Academic Writing
ENGL 119: Communications for Computer Science and Math
ENGL 210F: Genres of Business Communication
ENGL 306B: Introduction to Grammar
ENGL 378: Professional Communications in Statistics & Actuarial Science
GENE 191/199: Engineering Communications

Instructor |
School of Interdisciplinary Studies, Conestoga College (2021)

COMM 1085: College Reading & Writing
ENGL 71200: Scientific and Technical Communications

Teachable courses (by subject area)

Literature/Literary Studies
  • Introduction to Literary Studies
  • Poetry and poetics (broadly construed)
  • Modern and Contemporary Literature (esp. 20th century British/Irish/transnational)
  • Literary Criticism (esp. modern/contemporary)
  • Literary Theory
  • Literary Modernisms
  • Literature of the Modernist period in the UK and Ireland
  • Postwar Literature of the UK and Ireland
  • Poetry and Interdisciplinarity
  • Poetry as Riddle
  • Mimesis, Representation, and the Aesthetics of Referentiality in Contemporary Poetry
  • The Poetics of Epistemology
  • Selected readings courses (Heaney, Hopkins, Eliot, Zwicky, Muldoon, Hill, etc.)
  • Theories of the Lyric

Rhetoric/Rhetorical Studies

  • Introduction to Rhetorical Studies
  • History/Theory/Survey of Rhetoric (Ancient/Medieval/Modern/Contemporary)
  • Academic Writing
  • Genres of Technical Communication
  • Genres of Business Communication
  • Communication for the Engineering Profession
  • Communication in the Sciences (Physical/Life)
  • Introduction to Digital Methodologies
  • The Rhetoric of Digital Media & Digital Methods
  • The Rhetoric of Popular Culture
  • Introduction to Narratology
  • Semiotics
  • Visual Rhetoric
  • Literature, Rhetoric, and the Visual Arts
  • Argumentation in the Arts and Social Sciences
  • The Rhetoric of Film, Visual, Digital Media
  • Rhetoric and Interdisciplinarity
  • The Rhetoric of Epistemology
  • Interdisciplinarity in the 20th Century