My pedagogical goal is to cultivate a classroom community where students can interrogate and explore the world and their own experiences through creative and critical 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.
“
—This was my favorite class I have taken in all my years at Tulane! Tori taught a diverse and exciting syllabus. I think the diversity in genre made the class appealing to students from any backgrounds.
—Dr. Bush is very thoughtful and passionate about the subject. She gives feedback in our weekly journals and is easily accessed outside of class time! I thoroughly enjoyed this course.
—This courses structure and content was an awesome way to fulfill my tier 2 writing requirement. It really made me more interested in humanities.
—I have loved my time in this course. The workload is not insignificant but pretty standard for a Tier-2 Writing in SLA. The class content is meaningful and relevant, and Prof. Bush fosters a welcoming learning and creative environment.
—I love this class so much and Professor Bush is extremely knowledgeable and a fantastic teacher.
—This is my favorite class.
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