Teaching and Supervision Interests
Backgrounds and current Issues in critical
theory•psychoanalytic approaches to culture and society•the literary institution•
representing the Holocaust (in history, literature, film, and philosophy)•memory
politics in conjunction with theories of violence, trauma, and affect•time, narrative,
and memory•animals in philosophy and literature•interdisciplinary discourse
analysis and hermeneutics•theories of modernity•critical aesthetics•totalitarianism
and literature
Courses Taught
Undergraduate: English 101: Critical Reading
and Writing; EFS 111: Language, Literature, and Culture; EFS 122: Texts and
Contexts; English 206: The Short Story; English 283: Introduction to the Literature
of Popular Culture in English; English 216: Introduction to Literary Theory;
EFS 218: Textualities (Reading); EFS 224:
The Literary Institution; EFS 208:
Reading History, Making Books; EFS 302: Literary and Cultural Theories; EFS
367: Contemporary Literature and Culture;
EFS 408/403: Becoming Animal
Graduate seminars: English 695: Time, Narrative, and Memory; English 695:
Desiring Machines and Mechanized Desires; EFS 695: Literature, Fascism, and
Totalitarianism; EFS 695: The Holocaust (in History, Theory, Film, and
Literature); EFS 695: Global Affects; EFS 695:
On Violence; EFS 695: Affect:
From the Traumatic to the Virtual