Teaching

I’ve created and taught courses on literature, movies and digital storytelling; trained students, academics and university staff in podcasting and public humanities methods; and mentored undergraduates working on a broad range of (digital) humanities research projects.

Courses

  • At MIT
    • Digital Approaches to Storytelling (advanced undergraduate seminar, Spring 2024)
    • The Birth of the Global Short Story (introductory undergraduate course, Spring 2023 and Spring 2024)
    • Lit@MIT Student Projects Showcase – a digital showcase for projects from these courses, co-created with Belinda Yung
  • At Columbia University
    • Literary Texts and Critical Methods (seminar leader, Fall 2019)
    • Dance on Screen (instructor of record, Spring 2020 and Fall 2021)
    • Movies and Spectatorship (instructor of record, adult learners, Spring 2019)
    • Contemporary Essays (instructor of record, Fall 2018)
    • History of the English Language (TA, Spring 2017)
    • British Romantic Poetry (TA and section leader, Fall 2016)

Podcast training

  • Creator and facilitator, How to Make a Humanities Podcast workshop series, Johns Hopkins University, Spring 2025
  • Co-creator and facilitator (with Olivia Branscum), How to Make a Scholarly Podcast workshop series, Columbia University, Spring 2021
  • Through How To Read podcast, mentored 7 undergraduates in podcast production

Mentoring

  • Through MIT Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP), I mentored 9 students pursuing Digital Humanities research (2022-23)
  • Graduate Mentor, Laidlaw Scholars programme (2020)

Pedagogy

As 2024-25 coordinator of the Blast Courses in the Humanities (Johns Hopkins University), I developed and delivered a training and mentorship programme in digital and public-oriented teaching methods to prepare graduate instructors.

Through Columbia University’s Center for Teaching and Learning, I received the following pedagogical training:

  • Technology and Design Fellowship (2021)
  • Teaching Observation Fellowship (2019-20)
  • Innovative Teaching Summer Institute (2019)