Teaching Awards

Samuel H. Graf Faculty Achievement Award for demonstrating outstanding performance beyond regular duties, Linfield University, 2019

Graves Award for outstanding accomplishment in teaching in the humanities, American Council of Learned Societies, 2016

Outstanding Teaching Faculty Award, Linfield University Office of Multicultural Programs, 2015

Derek Bok Center Award for distinction in teaching, Harvard University, 2009

Derek Bok Center Award for distinction in teaching, Harvard University, 2007

Derek Bok Center Award for distinction in teaching, Harvard University, 2006

Courses Taught (at Linfield Unversity)

British Literary History

Sex, Language, and Empire: Introduction to British Literature 1660-Present, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016

Sex and Power in the Renaissance, Fall 2015, Fall 2013, Fall 2010

Restoration and 18th-Century Literature, Fall 2011

Secret Lives in Victorian Literature, Fall 2020, Fall 2017, Fall 2014, Spring 2013

Twentieth-Century British Literature, Spring 2012

Art and Politics in Modern British Literature, Fall 2010

Shakespeare

Shakespeare and His Rivals, Fall 2011

Shakespeare’s Comedies and Histories: Performing Gender and Sexuality (Gender Studies elective), Spring 2020, Spring 2015, Spring 2013, Spring 2011

Shakespeare’s Tragedies Revisited, Spring 2021, Spring 2019, Spring 2016, Spring 2014, Spring 2012

Drama

History Plays from Henry V to Hamilton, Spring 2018

Theatre in Portland: Environmental Drama, January 2018

Theatre in Portland: Novels on Stage, January 2016

Theatre in Portland: Beyond Realism, January 2015 

Theatre in Portland: Performing Masculinity, January 2014

Theatre in Portland: Problem Plays, January 2013 

First-Year Writing Seminars

Hamilton: The Musical, Fall 2020, Fall 2019

Coming of Age Stories, Fall 2018, Fall 2017, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2012, January 2011

Literary Adaptation from Austen to Zombies, Spring 2013

A Sense of Humor, Fall 2011, Spring 2011

Senior Literature Seminars

Shakespeare from the Margins, Fall 2018

Theories of the Novel, Fall 2013