CENTRAL STATE UNIVERSITY
2016 – Present
British Literature I (medieval through 18th century)
British Literary History: Power and Resistance in Renaissance Drama (upper-level seminar)
Development of Drama: Tragedy
Forms and Genres: Drama (upper-level seminar; including online sections)
Great Books, Great Films
Introduction to College Writing (including online sections)
Introduction to College Reading and Writing (including online sections)
Introduction to Literary Studies (including online sections)
Literary Criticism: Theory and Practice (upper-level seminar)
Literary Publishing (upper-level seminar)
Senior Capstone Seminar (upper-level seminar)
Shakespeare and His Influence (upper-level seminar; including online sections)
Undergraduate Success Seminar I
Vocabulary Development and Applications (including online sections)
Writing and Researching the Essay (including online sections)
THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY
2011 – 2015
British Literature to 1800 (T.A.)
First-Year English Composition
Introduction to Shakespeare
Introduction to Drama
Literature in the US Experience, (second-year composition with a literature focus)
Language, Identity, and Culture in the US Experience, (second-year composition)
OHIO UNIVERSITY
2009 – 2011
English Literature before 1688 (T.A.)
Writing and Rhetoric I
As a form of popular entertainment, Renaissance drama had to appeal to diverse audiences. How were people from various backgrounds represented on stage? Did women really never perform in plays until 1660? How did English drama portray Catholics, Protestants, and Muslims? In this course, we will consider these questions and more while reading outstanding plays such as Tamburlaine, The Malcontent, and The Duchess of Malfi.
Drama represents human experience and conflict in a concise form. Like modern films, plays ask us to make sense of characters and events in a relatively short period of time. Unlike films and literature, the theater offers an ephemeral experience. Once a performance ends, certain aspects of it cannot be replicated or recovered. Thus, reading plays differs in important ways from reading novels or watching films. This class explores the unique artform of drama by examining some of the most significant dramatic works of the Western tradition. We consider the theatrical conventions of different historical periods and analyze some of the different possibilities for staging and performing certain scenes.