Academic
Teaching
As an instructor, I seek to support my students in cultivating a passion for the material that will serve them as scholars, individuals, and citizens of the world. I believe that learning is not just about filling in the mental archive, as crucial as this is, but about defining one’s subjectivity, refining one’s code of ethics in reference to all that has been. All learning is learning to approach others with openness, compassion, and understanding.
I teach foreign languages and literatures out of love for and faith in humanity, and it is my aim as an educator to proliferate this love to the best of my ability. I hope that my students leave class feeling more connected to each other and to all of their neighbor’s on this planet, near or far.
I do not believe that we can learn without “getting our hands dirty,” and structure my teaching around creative projects and writing that require more than a mere demonstration of understanding. The clearest demonstration of mastery is the ability to make something with what one has learned.