Teaching

My teaching is interdisciplinary and my courses often include literature, film, literary theory, and readings on the history of science and technology. Here are some of the courses I have designed and taught.

American University

  • “Frankenstein and Beyond” Graduate seminar.
  • “Literature, Technology and Culture, 1870s-1920s” Graduate seminar.
  • “Readings in Genre: Cinema” Graduate seminar.
  • “Apocalyptic Cinema” Advanced interdisciplinary seminar.
  • “Robots: Imagination, Fiction and Reality” Advanced interdisciplinary seminar.
  • “Film and the Human Body” Advanced film studies seminar.
  • “Silent Cinema” Advanced film studies seminar.
  • “Melodrama” Advanced film studies seminar.
  • “Alfred Hitchcock in Context” Advanced film studies seminar.
  • “Cinema and the 20th Century” General education course/ Survey course
  • “Critical Approach to the Cinema” General Education course.

Harvard University

  • “Literary Theory: Graduate Proseminar in Comparative Literature” Designed and co-taught with Professor Barbara Johnson.
  • “Vision in Motion: Approaching Early Cinema” Graduate seminar.
  • “Film Theory/ Film Practice” Undergraduate seminar and studio practicum. Designed and co-taught with filmmaker Robb Moss.
  • “Film and the Human Body” Advanced film studies seminar.
  • “Studies in Film Genre: Melodrama” Advanced film studies seminar.
  • “Things Come To Life: Imagining Animate Objects in Literature, Philosophy and Culture” Advanced interdisciplinary seminar.
  • “Histories of Cinema I: Moving Pictures from the 1890s to the 1930s” Undergraduate lecture course in film studies.
  • “Introduction to the Study of Film” Foundational lecture course for film studies and for Core Humanities requirements. Enrollment: 200 undergraduate and graduate students.
  • “Reading Across Media: Methods of Literary Study” Sophomore tutorial.
  • “Interdisciplinary Approaches to Literary Study” Sophomore tutorial.

University of California at Berkeley

  • “Film History, II: Film, Sound and Narrative” Undergraduate lecture course in film studies.
  • “The Real, the Virtual and the Cinematic: Representing Technology in Film” Undergraduate lecture course in film studies.