Current Courses  ♦  Past Courses  ♦  Student Projects

For Spring 2012, I will be on sabbatical. See you in the Fall!

Extracurricular Fun

Library Exhibit & Digital Scholarly Edition of Beardsley, Wilde/Alastair, Pater rare books (collaborative work performed by a team of students)

Graduate Seminars:

• Eat, Look, Go: Romanticism, Aestheticism, and the Sensualism of Travel (Engl. 232, Fall 2011)
• Romanticism & Madness (Engl 232, Fall 2008)*
• Independent Study for Summer Dickens Universe (Fall 2008)
• Methods and Materials of Research  (Engl 201, Fall 2007)
• Romantic Genders (Engl 232, Spring 2006)
• William Wordsworth: Questioning a Literary Lion (developed but not taught)

English Major Courses:

• Honors Seminar: Digital Literature: The Death of Print Culture? (Engl. 190) Fall 2010*
• TechnoRomanticism (Engl 149) Spring 2008 (see the conference paper abstract about this course), Fall 2009*
• British Literature, Late 18th Century to Present (Engl 56B) Fall 2007 (syllabus contributed to N. Katherine Hayles' resources for Electronic Literature: New Horizons for the Literary), Fall 2010, Spring 2011
• 19th-Century British Novel (Engl 153b) Fall 2006, Spring 2009*
• Gothic Novel & Horror Fiction (Engl 113) Fall 2006, Fall 2008, Spring 2010*, Fall 2011
• Romantic-Era Literature (Engl 149) Fall 2005
• Intro to Literary Criticism (Engl 101) Fall 2005, Fall 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Fall 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2011
• Writing Workshop for English Majors (Engl 100W) Spring 2008, Fall 2009, Fall 2011
• Brit Lit II: Enlightenment-Modernism (Queens College CUNY) Spring 2005
• Technology & Textuality: Converting “Literature” to the Digital Medium (Hunter College CUNY) Sum 2003 (see article about this course)
• Dickens' Old Curiosity Shop, Dickens Project (UC Santa Cruz) Sum 2003

General Education Courses:

• Great Works of Literature (Engl. 10) Spring 2010
• Intro to Lit (Hunter & Lehman Colleges CUNY) Spring 2000 & 2003
• Brit Lit II: Great Writers (Hunter College CUNY) Spring 2003
• Romantic-Era Survey (Queens College CUNY) Fall 2004 & Sum 2005

Composition Courses:

• Composition I (Engl 1A) Fall 2005, Fall 2006, Fall 2007
• Composition II (Engl 1B) Spring 2006, Spring 2009 (old format; new course), Fall 2010*, Spring 2011 (pdf)*, Fall 2011*

*This course uses an online learning environment, Moodle or PBWorks, to distribute course materials, write blogs and make discussion board/forum posts. To view the area, please log-in as a guest or request access (wiki).

Student Projects

• Tull Jordan, "Beauty," (Title, Scene 1, Scene 2, Scene 3) an Xtranormal video interpretation of an original play (Digital Literature: Death of Print Culture Honors, Fall 2010)*
• Alison Stephens, "Voici mon Histoire," a blog that revises Shelley's Frankenstein to include the creature's voice (in French) (British Literature, Spring 2011)*
• Hannah Becker, "Euphoria: Inspired by 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock'" video (British Literature, Spring 2011)*
• Michelle Nguyen, "Describing Library Game" using xtranormal video scripting (Digital Literature: Death of Print Culture Honors, Fall 2010)*
• Nathan Garavaglia, "Verisimilitude in Left for Dead" video essay (Quicktime or MPEG file -- BOTH LARGE FILES & TAKE SOME TIME TO DOWNLOAD) & Bibliography (Gothic Novel & Horror Fiction, Spring 2010)*
• Susie Riffel, "Winding Path" using PowerPoint (Great Works of Literature: TechnoLiterature, Spring 2010)*
• Miguel Gil, "Prometheus Smurf" video mash-up (Great Works of Literature: TechnoLiterature, Spring 2010)*
• Danielle Rice, "cybertechnology" video mash-up (Great Works of Literature: TechnoLiterature, Spring 2010)*
• Art Brandecker, "The Education of Frankenstein's Monster" (TechnoRomanticism, Fall 2009)*
• Robyn McCreight, "Terror and the Sublime" (TechnoRomanticism, Fall 2009)*
• TechnoRomantic-Era Timeline (TechnoRomantics Students, Fall 2009 - using MIT Simile Timeline, Dr. Brian Croxall's Tutorial & Google Docs spreadsheet)
• Crystle Bruno, "The Lasting Impact of the Absent Mother" (19th C. British Novel, Spring 2009)*
• See all 12 Frankenstein projects by TechnoRomanticists (Spring 2008) using Google Docs and Google Page Creator *
• Joe Garcia, "A Clockwork Orange: Novel or Film" (British Literature Survey, Fall 2007)
• Dori Coblentz, "'Grand Theft Auto' & The Monk" (Gothic Novel, Fall 2006)*
• Raphael DiDonato, "Byron and Mick Jagger" (Romantic-Era Literature, Fall 2005)
• Leslie Hooper, "A Comparison of Two Romantic Poets" (Romantic-Era Literature, Fall 2005)
• Elizabeth Kowal, "Making Romantic Poetry Accessible to Modern Audiences" (Romantic-Era Literature, Fall 2005)
• Unika Laset, "Romanticism and Imagination" (Romantic-Era Literature, Fall 2005)
• Meagan Lillich, "Gothic Doppelgangers" (Gothic Novel, Fall 2006)*
• Hunter College Student A, "KrazyKat" (Technology & Textuality, Sum 2003)
• Hunter College Student B, "Modern and Traditional FairyTales" (Technology & Textuality, Sum 2003)
   

• Steinbeck Textual History Project on The Acts of King Arthur (Fall 2007)*
• Steinbeck Textual History Project on The Pearl (Fall 2007)*
• Lisa Kim, "Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans" (Romantic Genders, Spring 2006)
• Katherine Harris, Experimental Project in Victorian Aftering (Spring 2000)

*This project presents an interesting argument about the literary text while adeptly utilizing the digital format.

 

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