Teaching

Click to view an edited cluster on “Experimental Criticism” at ASAP/J that grew out of my graduate seminar on the subject.

Some other recent teaching and advising initiatives are described here, here, and here.

Courses

The Age of Anxiety” General Education course, Harvard University, Spring 2024.

English 97. Thirteen Ways of Reading Dracula (Sophomore tutorial in literary methods, Harvard Spring 2022 & Spring 2023).

Experimental Criticism. (Graduate Seminar, Harvard, Fall 2021)

Hum10b. A Humanities Colloquium (Spring 2021 and Spring 2023)

Extreme Reading: The James Joyce Challenge (Spring 2021)

The Harvard Novel (Undergraduate Seminar/Lecture, Harvard, Spring 2020; Fall 2021)

Who Cares about Modernism? Literary Studies and the Problem of Periodization (Graduate Seminar, Harvard, Fall 2019 and Fall 2020)

The Joyce Effect (Undergraduate lecture, Harvard, Spring 2018)

How to Live: When Literature Meets Self-Help (Undergraduate seminar, Harvard, Spring 2018)

Testing the American Dream, Migrations Common Ground Course, Harvard (Undergraduate Requirement, Harvard, Fall 2017)

The Joyce Effect, Harvard (Harvard, Spring 2017)

How to Live: When Literature Meets Self-Help (Harvard, Fall 2016)

Literature Gone Viral, UPenn (Spring 2016)

How to do Anything! (In Contemporary Fiction), UPenn (Fall 2015)

Modern Irish Literature, UPenn (Spring 2015)

Modernism’s Global Legacies, UPenn (Fall 2014)

Adultery in the Novel and Film, UPenn (Spring 2013)

Ulysses Reading Group, Rosenbach Museum and Library, Philadelphia PA (2010-2011)

Reading for Life Advice: From Socrates to Self-help, UPenn (Fall 2009 & Spring 2010)

Saving Face: Self-Presentation in the Modern Short Story. SUNY Buffalo (Spring 2007)

Humiliation, Transformation: Researching the Short Story. SUNY Buffalo (Fall 2006).