Teaching

Courses

Introduction to Women’s and Gender Studies

Stony Brook University - Fall 2020, Winter 2020, Spring 2021, Summer 2023, Summer 2024, and Fall 2024.

Through the disciplines of literature, art, philosophy, and history and the critical analyses of texts, objects, historical accounts, social media, and current events, the course explores how cultural ideas of gender are expressed in different genres in the humanities. This critical thinking and writing course will introduce students to a range of concepts fundamental to Women’s and Gender Studies. Grounding our work in social construction theory to understand the ways in which sex, gender, race, sexuality, and other markers of bodily difference are managed by hierarchical systems of power, we will evaluate the ways marginalized people’s resistance to state-sanctioned violence has shaped our contemporary social world. Through an intersectional feminist lens, we will discuss themes of body and embodiment, gender identity and performance, women of color activism and intersectionality, the policing of gender and sexual expression, and more.

View my students’ class zine on intersectional feminism.

Introduction to Queer Studies

Stony Brook University - Summer 2021, Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Summer 2022, Fall 2022, and Spring 2023.

This survey course introduces students to a range of concepts fundamental to Queer Studies in the Humanities in the United States. We ground our work in social construction theory to understand the ways in which sex, gender, race, and sexuality function under hierarchical systems of power. Using an intersectional feminist lens, we work together to understand the ways state-sanctioned violence and marginalized people’s resistance have shaped our contemporary social world. Throughout the course we discuss themes of body and embodiment, race, sexuality and desire, gender identity and performance, the policing of gender and sexual expression, and queer and trans care. This helps to situate our inquiries LGBTQIA+ practices of care, wellbeing, and survival in and outside of institutions.

Find my comments on topics related to this course in the Stony Brook Press.