My pedagogical goal is to cultivate a classroom community where students can interrogate and explore their experiences through writing and literature, opening up new possibilities, developing conscious inquiry, and developing their relationship to text and environment.

Classes:

Tulane University                                               

“Writing Waterways: Global Environmental Literature” Spring 2026

In this class, students read, write, analyze, and speculate on literature from various bodies of water to ask how the blue humanities can give us alternative geographies and chronologies of environmental and social justice. This was a full class (18 students). Cross listed English & Environmental Studies, Spring 2026.

“Environmental Literature of the Gulf of Mexico: U.S., Mexico & Cuba” Fall 2026

This class introduces students to the transnational environmental literature of coastal communities around the Gulf Coast. Students will read novels, nonfiction, journalism, and poetry from the networked coastlines of the Gulf South, Mexico, and the Caribbean with a focus on climate change. Cross listed English, Comp. Lit, & Environmental Studies, Spring 2026.

The New School

“Climate Humanities & Social Justice” PSCE 5036, Spring 2025.

In this graduate-level class, students read literature, theory, and analyzed visual art to consider the way culture has both contributed to the climate crisis and created a radical space for imagining sustainable and just futures.

Colorado College

“Fields of the Anthropocene: Interdisciplinary Approaches” Freshman Year Experience. CC101, Fall 2023

Freshman experience class that used humanities‑based methods to environmental texts to evaluate how disciplines shape responses to the Anthropocene.

“Introduction to Literary Theory” EN250, Fall 2023

Analyzed major literary and cultural theories to interpret texts through feminist, queer, postcolonial, Marxist, and ecocritical frameworks.

“Introduction to Postcolonial Studies” EN270, Fall 2023

Examined postcolonial literary traditions by applying multiple critical approaches to texts from Africa, South Asia, the Caribbean, and Indigenous North America.

“Introduction to Literature: Waterways” EN100, Spring 2023

Interpreted global “blue humanities” texts to examine how water‑based narratives illuminate environmental and social justice issues.

“Introduction to Literature and the Environment: Postcolonial Ecologies” EN230, Spring 2024

Engaged postcolonial and decolonial environmental literatures to examine how extractive practices shape cultural and political narratives in the climate crisis.

Louisiana State University

“Writing Ecologies/Ecologies of Writing” English 2000 Special Topics, Spring 2022.

“Introduction to Fiction: The Postcolonial Novel” English 2025, Fall 2021.

“Rhetoric and Composition: English 2000” Spring 2021.

“Writing Ecologies/Ecologies of Writing” English 2000 special topics, Fall 2020.

“Writing Louisiana” English 2000 special topics, Spring 2020.

Rhetoric and Composition: English 1001, Fall 2019.

Rhetoric and Composition: English 2000, Spring 2019.

Rhetoric and Composition: English 1001, Fall 2018.

Other Educational Spaces:

Taught creative writing in Orleans Parish Prison, 2015-2018.