TEACHING

I teach a wide range of courses at Clemson University, from Shakespeare and early modern literature to storytelling, world literature, and social change. Through the Global Start program, I take students to Rome, turning the city itself into a living classroom. I also lead innovative projects like AI Shakespeare, guiding students in using cutting-edge tools to uncover new insights into Shakespeare’s language and characters. My commitment to teaching excellence was recently recognized with the Dean’s Outstanding Senior Lecturer Award.

CAH awards 14 faculty and staff for excellence in teaching and service

As a comparatist and Shakespeare scholar, I am fascinated by how the past can feel both impenetrable and oddly familiar. In my classes, Shakespeare’s plays enter into dialogue with other Renaissance and modern texts, revealing the cultural and political complexities of early modern subjectivities and power. Over the past seven years, I have designed and taught a range of English and world literature courses. At Yale, I taught Cultures of Excess, a course exploring practices and discourses of excess across history and disciplines—from sacrificial rituals and baroque art to contemporary reality shows. The course was featured in a New York Times piece on innovative teaching in art galleries.

Awards
The Dean’s Outstanding Senior Lecturer Award, May 2025.

Clemson English Major’s Club award, September 2023.

Holman Teaching Award, Outstanding achievement in teaching by a lecturer, Department of English, March 2019.

John B. and Thelma A. Gentry Award for Teaching Excellence in the Humanities, CAAH. May 2016.