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.