TEACHING

I teach undergraduate courses in literature, composition, and creative writing. Across these areas, I emphasize literature as a vital tool for fostering ecological connection. By bringing literature into conversation with science, history, and culture, I encourage students to see how stories shape our relationships with the more-than-human world and how those stories can inspire care, accountability, and imagination in the face of ecological crisis.

In practice, my classes highlight the intersections between humans and animals, art and environment, and past and present. My goal is to help students recognize the structures we inherit—whether cultural narratives, ecological frameworks, or literary traditions—and to see how we can create more ethical and sustainable futures. In doing so, students develop not only critical reading and writing skills but also a deeper sense of their own agency as participants in shared ecological worlds.

Below you will find sample syllabi from courses I have taught at Florida Gulf Coast University and the University of Florida.