In my work as a teacher and mentor, I am committed to students feeling that we are working collaboratively as thinkers and learners. I am particularly invested in illuminating the importance of understanding our individual learning habits to develop a sustainable practice for intellectual growth. This means that I prioritize scaffolded assignments, revision, and ongoing reflection about the process of knowledge production as much as its products.

At UCI and the University of Michigan, I have taught a broad range of courses from smaller senior seminars and introductory writing courses to larger general education lectures and surveys. I have worked with undergraduate, masters, and doctoral students on a range of topics within my areas of expertise. I regularly teach classes that explore Latinx feminism in literature and media, literature and the mind, multiethnic women’s literature, feminist narrative theory, and critical race and archive theory.

Although my primary teaching  is in the English department at UCI, I have affiliate status in the department of Chicano and Latino studies and I sometimes cross list my courses with the department of Gender and Sexuality Studies, so you can find some of my courses listed in those departments as well.

To find out more about my current courses, please head to the UCI English Department website UCI webpage.