Teaching
Courses I offer
Courses tagged LGBTQ+ certificate count toward the certificate in LGBTQ studies.
Disability, Gender, and Sexuality
Next offered
Hope and Joy in Queer and Trans Lives
Next offeredWinter 2027
Family Diversity and Power
Next offeredWinter 2027
Introduction to Women’s and Gender Studies
Next offeredSummer 2027
Sexualities, Genders, and Bodies
Next offeredFall 2027
LGBTQ Religious Experience
Next offeredFall 2027
Colonialism, Race, and Sexuality
Next offeredWinter 2028
Teaching approach
- My courses are discussion-based. Reading and participation are important. We read original scholarly and creative work by authors from many backgrounds and disciplines.
- I believe teaching can always improve. I love learning new approaches and welcome student input. Some of the best ideas for course policies and assignments have come from my students.
- I believe in welcoming students’ whole selves to the classroom. I also believe in respecting students’ privacy. In my classes, you are always welcome to share about yourself and your life but never have to.
- Dr. Gloria Jean Watkins, better known by her pen name bell hooks, made a deep and lasting impression on me as a teacher. Her book Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom is one I return to often. If you’re going to read one chapter, I recommend chapter five, “Theory as liberatory practice.”