courses

Writing in Digital Environments

Rhetoric of Digital Publishing

Principles of Digital Studies

Rhetoric and Writing

Designed courses

Writing With Data

Data Cultures

Teaching With Digital Media

Content Management + Strategy

Style for Tech Comm

Writing For Access

Qualitative Methods

Document Design

Teaching Philosophy

My classroom is a dynamic and supportive space where all students can find support and understanding while pursuing rigorous topics that require difficult questions. Teaching, though it is often contained in a classroom, is a complex social action. While every student is working towards her own set of goals, learning is also a collaborative endeavor. Each students is brings a unique set of knowledge and experiences to a space where we are all navigating individual struggles. I lead my classes while also remembering that students are negotiating their own relationships to technology, knowledge of texts, relationships to texts, and cultural and economic backgrounds.

In my view, grades do little to encourage student development and can especially hinder progress in underrepresented student groups. As such, I take a contract grading approach to assessment, following antiracist assessment principles and practices. This approach improves learning outcomes, challenges students who are used to succeeding under inherited dominant systems, and allows room for experimentation and creativity.

As an instructor of writing and digital media, I strive to empower my students with the tools to establish and positively affect their own knowledge networks that will inform their interactions with the wider world. These learning goals may be as simple as communicating effectively in an email, as complex as considering how to distribute data sets responsibly, or as detail oriented as making digital writing accessible for neurodiverse populations. Students should leave their undergraduate careers with skills that will carry them into wider networks within which they will have to act productively, responsibly, and ethically. I try to do this as best I can by providing students with concrete ways to distribute the work they produce and showing them why it matters.