Awards and Honors for Teaching

2021, Kenan Award For Teaching Excellence

2020, Undergraduate Classroom-Based Research Award, for development of new course on Emily Dickinson, Audre Lorde, and literary arts organizing: “You Cannot Put a Fire Out: Organizing to Empower Marginalized Voices” with community partner, Alejandro Heredia of PEN America

Selected Courses Taught at Pace University

Selfies: Selfhood, Literature, and the Visual

American Literature to 1900

Early American Black Lives Matter

Young Adult Fiction

Writing Cultural Criticism

Popular Fiction