Classes Taught:
Lamar Community College - Lamar, CO (Fall 2022-)
Composition I (4 sections)
Composition II (4 section)
Film Art (2 sections)
Intro to Literature (4 sections)
Intro to Theatre (3 sections)
Ancient Civilizations (2 sections)
Music Appreciation (1 section)
Northwest State Community College - Archbold, OH (Fall 2018-Spring 2020)
Composition I (3 sections, 1 online)
Composition II (9 sections)
Lourdes University - Sylvania, OH (Spring 2017)
Charlie Chaplin: Art, Comedy and Politics (1 section, fully prepped but canceled due to low enrollment)
The Post-War Boom: 1950s American Cinema (1 section)
Bowling Green State University - Bowling Green, OH (Fall 2012-Spring 2016)
THFM 1610 - Introduction to Film (8 sections)
THFM 2620 - History of Film (7 sections)
THFM 4850 - Topics in Film: American Film Comedy (1 section, ONLINE)
College of Micronesia, National Campus - Palikir, Pohnpei, FSM (Fall 2011-Spring 2012)
EN 120a - Expository Writing I (4 sections)
EN 120b - Expository Writing II (2 sections)
EN 110 - Advanced Reading (2 sections)
Grand Rapids Community College - Grand Rapids, MI (Spring 2011)
EN 101 - English Composition 1 (1 section)
EN 102 - English Composition 2 (1 section)
Educational Advising Center - Chisinau, Moldova (Fall 2009-Spring 2010)
Conversational English Workshop (2 sections)
Northern Illinois University - DeKalb, IL (Fall 2007-Spring 2009)
EN 103 - Composition and Rhetoric I (6 sections)
EN 203 - Composition and Rhetoric II (2 sections)
Grand Rapids Community Media Center - Grand Rapids, MI (Fall 2006-Spring 2007)
Beginning Screenwriting (2 sections)
Advanced Screenwriting (1 section)
Columbia College (teaching assistant) - Chicago, IL (Fall 2001-Spring 2002)
Moving Image Production I (1 section)
Image Design for Cinema - (1 section)
Graduate-Level Courses Taken:
Bowling Green State University (earned PhD in May 2017 with 3.923 GPA*):
Teaching American Culture Studies
Theories of Cultural Studies
Media and Cultural Studies
Genealogy of American Culture Studies
Critical Approaches to Film Studies
Seminar in American Culture Studies: Post-Humanism
Performance Studies: Stand-Up and Solo Performance
Topics in American Culture Studies: History of Drugs in America
Publication and Professional Development
Digital Research Methods
Independent Study: Comedy, Culture and Cinema
Post-World War II American Public Policy
Social and Cultural Foundations of Education
Topics in American Culture: Dissertation Workshop
Northern Illinois University (earned MA in May 2009 with 3.818 GPA*):
Teaching College English
Film as Text
Creative Writing: Poetry
Creative Nonfiction
Seminar: The Uncanny in Literature and Film
Research and Bibliographic Methods
Literature and Film
Independent Study: Screenwriting
Psychology in Film and Literature
Postwar American Literature
The Documentary Tradition
Topics in Literature and Film: The Vietnam and Iraq Wars
* grade point averages on a four point scale
