Marlboro College courses

Marlboro’s unusual structure means I’ve taken multiple tutorials—small, largely student-designed classes the content of which is often determined by the focus of the student’s Plan of Concentration. More about tutorials here.

Spring 2014

• Contemporary French Philosophy and the Animal II (tutorial)
• Advanced Plan Writing: Animal Poets (tutorial)
• Teaching “Philosophy of Poetry” (tutorial)
• Philosophy of Poetry (as instructor)
• Contact Improvisation

Fall 2013

• Forms of Poetry
• Animal Poetry (tutorial)
• Contemporary French Philosophy and the Animal (tutorial)
• Montaigne and Animals (tutorial)
• Intermediate Contact Improvisation (group tutorial)

Spring 2013

• Philosophy of Poetry (tutorial)
• Further Readings in Animal Studies (tutorial)
• Contemplative Learning and the Study of Mysticism
• Form and Substance: Workshop in Poetry
• Contact Improvisation

Fall 2012

• Interdisciplinary Frameworks of Animal Studies (tutorial)
• Advanced Critical Theory: Biopower and the Management of Gender (tutorial)
• Animal Behavior
• “. . . outliving a time by telling its story”: Conflict and Memory in the Contemporary British Novel
• The Poetry of Witness

Spring 2012

• Reading Gender and Sexuality Theory (tutorial)
• Contemporary Continental Philosophy
• Seminar in Religion, Literature and Philosophy II
• The Language of Literature

Fall 2011

• Semantics
• Three Modernists: W. B. Yeats, T. S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf
• Seminar in Religion, Literature and Philosophy I
• Theories of Race and Ethnicity

Spring 2011

• Syntactic Theory
• Fluidity of Gender in the Early and Medieval Church
• Writing and the Teaching of Writing
• Lovecraft and His Legacy (group tutorial)

Fall 2010

• Grammar as Science
• Introduction to Anthropology
• Writing Seminar: Beyond the Grave

Some of the papers

that I liked best:

• “An Uncanny Face”
  (Beyond the Grave, September 2010)
  On werewolves. This was a runner-up for the Freshman/Sophomore Essay Contest.
• “Investigating and Reinvestigating ‘Masochism’: Finding Words for Christian Martyrs’ Attitudes Toward Pain”
  (Fluidity of Gender, May 2011)
• “Conversion and (the Lack of) Pilgrimage in Ash-Wednesday”
  (Three Modernists, November 2011)
• “Thinking, Not Feeling: Epictetus’ Approach to the Problem of Injustice”
  (Religion, Literature and Philosophy, December 2011)
• “(Un)natural Conundrums, (Un)natural Concerns: Representations of Trans Children in 2000s U.S. News Media”
  (Reading Gender and Sexuality Theory, May 2012)

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