SELECTED COURSES
English 101
Carnegie Mellon University
INTERPRETATION AND ARGUMENT
My Fall 2021 - Spring 2023 course, "Crossing Borders: Forced Migration and Transnationalism in the 21st Century," makes legible to first-year students discourses surrounding nepantla spaces (from Anzaldúa) and amplifies works by refugee and immigrant authors, in service of students learning college-level writing skills like comparative genre analyses and writing research papers. I chose the theme, selected readings, taught, and scaffolded and assessed assignments for 170 students across nine sections.
English 100
Carnegie Mellon University
READING & WRITING IN ACADEMIC CONTEXTS
In this Fall 2022 course, I taught 12 multilingual and/or international students in one section, on the theme of "Language and Identity." We engaged in metacognitive reflection and writing around the myth of "Standard Academic English" and the realities of translingualism while learning how to read and writer at the college level. I selected readings and taught this diverse, transnational class about summarizing, comparing and contrasting, and writing position papers and reflective writing assignments.
Writing 700
Naropa University
WRITING PEDAGOGY
Under my responsibilities as Head Writing Fellow I was a Graduate Assistant and co-teacher for this professional development graduate course. I co-planned and co-lead instruction for 15 graduate students in the MFA in Creative Writing and Poetics program at Naropa, covering different pedagogical theories and embodied opportunities for practice, and mentored these students as the prepared to teach their own First Year Writing sections. I also observed new FYW teachers' classes and provided growth-oriented feedback.
online workshop
POETIC CURATION AND ARCHIVE
In her poem, “Living as a Lesbian Underground: A Futuristic Fantasy,” Cheryl Clarke writes, “Leave signs of struggle. / Leave signs of triumph. / And leave signs.” This course focused on doing exactly that, considering the art of curation and ethical use of archival material, leaving our own signs -- our own marks -- by reworking existing materials with an eye for both the past (archive) and the future (curation). In this community-based month-long workshop, I taught 15 students asynchronously online during the pandemic.
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"Caminante, no hay puentes, se hace puentes al andar.
Voyager, there are no bridges, one builds them as one walks."