Northwestern State University of Louisiana
Undergraduate Courses
Composition and Rhetoric I
Ethnographic and Documentary Filmmaking
Experimental Video Production
Film Directors: The Coen Brothers
Film, Gender, and Sexuality
Film Genre: Melodrama
Film Theory
History of Film
Introduction to Digital Culture
Introduction to Film
Introduction to Literature
Major Writers in World Literature
Reading Blackness
The University Experience
The Southern Renaissance
Graduate Courses
Contemporary Southern Literature
Literature and Food: Southern Foodways
Major Authors: David Foster Wallace
Southern Literature before 1920
Southern Women Writers
The Southern Renaissance
Reading Literature and/as Film: Screening the South
University of Florida (Undergraduate Courses Only)
Film Analysis
History of Film II: 1930-1965
Introduction to Film Theory and Criticism
Bucknell University (TA)
Gender and Film
Early American Mythologies
Irish Literature
Literature and Composition
Other Relevant Experience
Presidential Fellowship as Multimedia and Web Designer, French and Francophone Studies Program, Bucknell University, August 2003 – May 2007.
Created web-based learning modules; edited and formatted video for use in learning modules; created websites for these modules using HTML, CSS and Flash; designed other graphics to serve as learning aides.
Teaching Interests
Film studies (analysis; theory and criticism; history; world; transnational; French and francophone; Latin American; contemporary; documentary; experimental; video art; video production; film and philosophy, literature, trauma, history, gender, race, and ideology), television studies, new media, digital humanities, narrative structure, 20th century and contemporary American literature, autobiography, memoir, biography.