I am not your traditional run-of-the mill English instructor. I was not an English major as an undergraduate and only a quasi-English major in graduate school; in fact, as an undergraduate I.T. major, I was one of those students touting my ultimate dislike and pure disdain of English courses.  I have since changed my ways, of course, to understand the true value of the English language, but my shared experiences with my students coupled with my interdisciplinary background and corporate training allows me to bring something to the table that many English instructors cannot – pure authenticity, relatability, and an unsurpassed practicality.

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• Rhetoric, Composition & Culture, 1101 First-Year Composition Course.  This course focuses on ideology and culture and how they work to inform one another, including discussions of gender, sexuality, race, creativity and remix, and the role of government across various cultural artifacts.
• Rhetoric, Composition & Sports Media (Conceptual), 1101 First-Year Composition Special Topics Course currently in early conceptual stages. This course focuses on sports media and culture and how they work to inform one another, including representations of gender, sexuality, class, and race across various cultural artifacts.
• Film As Literature, 1102 Multicultural American Literature Special Topics Course. The course was proposed and accepted at UGA for Spring 2012 and focuses on the intersections between film and literature such as shared literary aspects and discussions of film as art.
• Game Narratives (Proposed for Fall 2012), 1102 Special Topics Course currently in development. The course explores how narrative theory informs the design and play of games as a form of interactive fiction through the analysis of 1) player narratives, 2) game narratives, and 3) cultural narratives, focusing on community aspects, social issues such as violence, and player representations such as gender and race.
• Sounds of Poetry (Conceptual), 1102 Multicultural American Literature Special Topics Course currently in early conceptual stages. The course will focus on the intersections between poetry and music – its modern day contemporary – such as the importance of sound and other shared literary elements predicated on the intentionality of  “hearing” rather than “reading” the text.