Teaching Philosophy

As an educator, I challenge students’ reading and analysis of scholarship, popular media, and popular culture by crafting discussions designed to diversify students’ understanding of media texts, the histories surrounding them, and their implications for and revelations about mainstream societies and cultures. I believe in teaching courses and creating spaces that are interactive, interdisciplinary, entertaining, thought-provoking, and inclusive. I prefer discussion-based pedagogy, but can and do adapt to courses which better suit a lecture-based model.