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Introduction to Women's Studies course @ University of Delaware
• Theories examined: intersections of class and gender, the “feminization of poverty,” and working women and gender issues in the workplace. • Texts analyzed: Dorothy Allison’s novel Bastard Out of Carolina (first text ever assigned in college). -
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Honors News Writing & Editing course @ University of Delaware
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Reporter’s Practicum course @ University of Delaware
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Feature & Magazine Writing course @ University of Delaware
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Jane Austen: Her Novels, Fans, and Critics course @ Arizona State University
• Theories examined: cross-class women’s relationships in Jane Austen’s literature, including specific study on cultural rules and didactic texts regulating women’s responsibilities to one another across lines of class in 18th century Britain. • Texts analyzed: Devoney Looser’s “‘The Duty of Woman by Woman’: Reforming Feminism in Emma”; Beth Fowkes Tobin’s “Superintending the Poor: Charitable Ladies and Paternal Landlords in British Fiction.” -
Approaches to Teaching Writing course @ Georgetown University
• Theories examined: The act of writing as a mode of learning that facilitates new ways of thinking; the importance guiding writers to discover and produce deeply reflective texts or “writing that matters.”• Texts analyzed: Ann Berthoff’s “The Making of Meaning”; Janet Emig’s “Writing as a Mode of Learning”; Richard Miller’s “The Nervous System”; Donald Murray’s “Teach Writing as a Process Not Product”; Walter Ong’s “Writing Is a Technology that Restructures Thought.” -
Feminist Literary/Cultural Theory course @ Georgetown University
• Theories examined: Feminist autobiography and its capacity to inform about the self and others; identity as constituted through recognition and the danger of racial misrepresentation; intersectional analysis in facilitating women’s relationships across lines of subjectivity.• Texts analyzed: Linda Anderson’s “Autobiography and the Feminist Subject”; bell hooks’ “The Oppositional Gaze”; Robyn Wiegman’s “What Ails Feminist Criticism? A Second Opinion”; Jean Wyatt’s “Toward Cross-Race Dialogue.” -
Class Fictions in the Contemporary U.S. course @ Georgetown University
• Theories examined: The erasure, cooption, and misrepresentation of poor women; the alienation of class liminality; the working class woman’s complicated relationship to home; the risks and benefits of writing working class autobiography. • Texts analyzed: Vivyan Adair’s “Class Absences”; Amber Hollibaugh’s “A Queer Girl Dreaming Her Way Home,"; bell hooks' “Bone Black”; Joanna Kadi’s “Stupidity Deconstructed"; Beverley Skeggs’ “Class, Self, Culture”; Janet Zandy’s “Hands."
