Past courses

Mesa Verde Cliff Dweller National Park, Colorado

UNIL

  • New American Studies (Autumn 2013) MA
  • Critical Approaches (Autumn 2013) MA
  • African American Literature (Autumn 2013) BA
  • Gothic American Literature (Autumn 2013) BA
  • Anglo-American Literary Survey (Autumn 2013) 1st year BA
  • Queer American Literature (Spring 2013) MA
  • American Women Poets (Spring 2013) BA
  • Hurston and Wright (Fall 2012) BA
  • American War Literature (Spring 2012) BA
  • Vietnam War in Literature and Film (Fall 2011)
  • Cold War and its Countercultures (Autumn 2010)
  • African American Poetry (Spring 2010)
  • American Feminist Theories and Fictions (Spring 2010)
  • Critical Approaches: Theory for MA Students (director, Fall 2009)
  • Toni Morrison: The Bluest Eye & A Mercy (Autumn 2009)
  • Crossing the Americas: Transnational Queer Literature (Fall 2009)
  • African American Literature, MA level (Spring 2009)
  • American Women Poets (Spring 2009)
  • Critical Approaches, MA level (Coordinator, Fall 2008)
  • Politics of the American Gothic (Fall 2008)
  • Toni Morrison’s Beloved (Fall 2008)
  • American Poetry (Spring 2008)
  • Queer American Literature (Spring 2008)
  • Edgar Allan Poe (Fall 2007)
  • Critical Approaches, MA level (coordinator, Fall 2007)
  • Introduction to Critical Approaches, MA level (Fall 2007)
  • Maxine Hong Kingston: The Woman Warrior (Fall 2007)
  • Literature and Film of the Vietnam War (Spring 2007)
  • Dickinson and Whitman (Spring 2007)
  • African-American Women Writers: Hurston & Morrison (Fall 2006)
  • The Politics of Melodrama (Fall 2006)

UNIGE

  • Queer America: Twentieth Century (Spring 2006)
  • Gender in Late Eighteenth Century American Literature (Fall 2005)
  • Queer America : Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Literature (Fall 2005)
  • Reading and Revolution: The Literary Culture of Late Eighteenth Century America, 2nd year (Fall 2004)
  • African-American Literature at the Turn of the 20th Century, 3rd & 4th year (Fall 2004)
  • Etudes Genre, 3rd & 4th year (Faculty of Letters, Spring 2004)
  • American War Culture, 2nd year (Spring 2004)
  • The Conjunctive Poetics of Hart Crane’s The Bridge, 3rd & 4th year (Spring 2004)
  • Advanced Seminar on African American Literature, 3rd & 4th year (Fall 2003)
  • Analysis of Texts : Non-Fiction Prose, 1st year (Fall 2003)
  • Gender Matters: From Women’s Studies to Queer Theory, 3rd & 4th year (Spring 2003)
  • American Modernisms, 2nd year (Fall 2002)
  • Post-War U.S. Drama, 2nd year (Spring 2002)
  • Analysis of Texts: Drama and Poetry, 1st year (Spring 2002)
  • Politics of Melodrama in U.S. Literature and Culture, 2nd year (Fall 2001)
  • The Vietnam War in American Culture, 2nd year (Spring 2001)
  • African-American Literature, 2nd year (Fall 2000)
  • American Culture Studies, 1975-2000, 2nd year (Spring 2000)
  • American Culture Studies, 1900-1940, 2nd year (Fall 1999)

Zurich

  • Introduction to Literature: Poetry (Spring 2002)
  • Advanced Seminar, with Prof. M. Heusser: Vietnam War (Fall 2002)

University of California, Irvine

  • Modern American Drama, with Prof. Myron Simon, UCI (Spring, 1994)
  • Comic and Tragic Vision: English Drama (Fall, 1994)
  • Images of Vietnam in American Culture, Comparative Lit. & Film Studies, with Prof. John Carlos Rowe, UCI (Spring 1991)
  • Advanced Expository Writing (Fall, 1993)
  • Basic Composition (Fall 1989-Spring1993)