My professional activities conceptualize research and teaching as connected activities that draw on literary reading and Arts-Based research perspectives. My current written work considers the role of feeling as necessary in revealing the sense of connectedness across lives that the literary arts make possible. As a writer/researcher/teacher, committed to embracing artful and emotionally evocative affective discourse, I draw on inquiry and writing-based practices adapted from narrative ethnography and A/r/tography. This work offers perspectives designed to re-imagine humanities-based approaches to learning/teaching. As an aesthetic practice of inquiry, A/r/tography conceives arts-based inquiry as drawing on aesthetic sensibilities that require an openness to curiosity while trusting uncertainty. My most recent scholarship, invites readers to explore the literary arts and the possibility they might offer imaginative routes and visceral itineraries into the hearts/minds of others.
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Arts-Based Research, A/r/tography, Humanities Education, Narrative Studies, Life History and Memoir, Literary Imagination in Public Life, Literature Pedagogy, Empathy and Literature, Performing Arts
EDUC 4135 - Story and Memoir
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Fall 2018 / Fall 2019
Explores narrative theory and the epistemological/stylistic commitments of stories as the basis for writing memoir, as well as for studying the written and spoken memoirs of others. We use the word memoir to mean a story of "how one remembers one's own life." Introduces and discusses narrative theory and selected memoirs. Students engage in reflection on their own narrative-making processes and evaluate their practical and analytic understanding of daily narrative practice. Same as EDUC 5135.
EDUC 4232 - Language and Literacy across the Curriculum
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Spring 2019 / Spring 2020
Explores the relationship between language and learning in math and science classrooms with the goal of developing teaching practices that engage students in using language as a tool for understanding and constructing meaning across the curriculum. Explores how language/literacy take on different forms and functions in different social contexts and academic disciplines. Same as EDUC 5235.
EDUC 5135 - Story and Memoir
Primary Instructor
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Fall 2018 / Fall 2019
Explores narrative theory and the epistemological/stylistic commitments of stories as the basis for writing memoir, as well as for studying the written and spoken memoirs of others. We use the word memoir to mean a story of "how one remembers one's own life." Introduces and discusses narrative theory and selected memoirs. Students engage in reflection on their own narrative-making processes and evaluate their practical and analytic understanding of daily narrative practice. Same as EDUC 4135.
EDUC 5235 - Language and Literacy Across the Curriculum
Primary Instructor
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Spring 2019 / Spring 2020
Explores the relationship between language and learning in math and science classrooms with the goal of developing teaching practices that engage students in using language as a tool for understanding and constructing meaning across the curriculum. Explores how language/literacy take on different forms and functions in different social contexts and academic disciplines. Same as EDUC 4232.
EDUC 5325 - Queering Literacy in Secondary Classrooms
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Fall 2018
Engages theories and practices of literacy teaching and learning that challenge multiple forms of oppression. Using the tools of queer pedagogy, students will learn, develop, and enact strategies for planning and implementing literacy instruction that moves beyond inclusion of differences in the English/language arts and social studies curriculum. Same as EDUC 4325.
EDUC 6964 - Capstone: Inquiry in the Content Areas
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Spring 2018 / Spring 2019 / Spring 2020
Supports students in using and building on the ideas and content encountered in previous coursework. Requires students to conceptualize, design and implement an original research project that will serve as exit requirement for the degree. Reads and engages in research and theory associated with Teacher Research (i.e. research conducted by teachers for professional purposes).
