I am a teacher of writing, literature, and interdisciplinary topics. As a practitioner of “the literature of ideas,” I teach writing as a form of thinking and speculation as a way of making sense of the world. My creative writing pedagogy is informed by extensive experience participating in and leading writing workshops at many levels. I aim to help students discover and refine their own tastes, interests, and voice. My other teaching interests include genre literature such as speculative fiction/sci-fi, climate fiction, and crime fiction; sustainability and futures thinking topics; and first-year composition.

I’ve taught a variety of courses in a variety of contexts, from first-year composition in one of the largest and most diverse writing programs in the country; to a PhD course on futures thinking at a technology university in Sweden; to an online solarpunk writing workshop for the Clarion West workshop series. I also have many years experience teaching physical practices like martial arts and yoga. In spring 2025, I received a teaching excellence award from ASU’s GSG.

Below you can check out samples of my syllabi, a teaching demonstration video, and my course evaluations.

Sample Syllabi

Alternate History 101: An undergraduate or graduate course (reading loads modulated) that combines alternate history literature with social science. Students will get a broad and deep understanding of this speculative genre while also thinking critically about history and politics as both structural and contingent.

Approaches to Futures: A course on futures thinking methods and disciplines, from strategic foresight to design fiction to solarpunk, originally taught spring 2023 to PhD students at Luleå University of Technology (LTU) in Sweden.

Beginner Fiction Workshop: An introductory undergraduate course on the craft of fiction, including workshopping peer work. This course uses the lessons and exercises in Ursula K. LeGuin’s Steering the Craft. Depending on class size, this course will modulate to devote more or less time to workshop.

English 101 – First Year Composition: This first semester composition course focuses on exploring the writing process as a form of thinking. Students complete three major writing/thinking assignments: a personal essay, an interview podcast, and a critical response. Each week will also include reading and discussion of a piece of recent notable non-fiction (“tabs of the week”), surveying various genres: op-eds, book reviews, culture writing, etc.

English 102 – First Year Composition: This second semester composition course has students practice valuable research, writing, and presentation skills. The three major projects include: a literature review/annotated bibliography, a research paper examining a debate of definition, and a public policy pitch deck and presentation. Along the way we will continue reading and discussing “tabs of the week.”

Teaching Demonstration

Evaluations

Below you can see my teaching evaluations