I currently teach media and literature at Fort Lewis College in Durango, CO. I've also taught literature and writing and the United States Military Academy at West Point and the University of Southern Mississippi.
My classes are often interdisciplinary in nature, and often (but not always) stem from my research areas of children's and young adult literature, American literature of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and journalism/media studies. I've focused a semantics class around the study of picturebooks and centered a media topics class on American democracy through lens of the 2016 presidential election. I've even themed a world literature class around the ABC series Lost.
I've built my professional and scholarly career around sharing and studying the multitude of stories that compose American and global cultures, past and present. As a journalist, my drive has always been to uncover and report others’ stories––to help weave together an intricate tapestry of many fabrics, varying in pattern and design, but united in their contributions to the human experience. And with my students, I continually work to show them that their voice is part of a larger conversation and that it matters.
My classes are often interdisciplinary in nature, and often (but not always) stem from my research areas of children's and young adult literature, American literature of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and journalism/media studies. I've focused a semantics class around the study of picturebooks and centered a media topics class on American democracy through lens of the 2016 presidential election. I've even themed a world literature class around the ABC series Lost.
I've built my professional and scholarly career around sharing and studying the multitude of stories that compose American and global cultures, past and present. As a journalist, my drive has always been to uncover and report others’ stories––to help weave together an intricate tapestry of many fabrics, varying in pattern and design, but united in their contributions to the human experience. And with my students, I continually work to show them that their voice is part of a larger conversation and that it matters.
