Teaching

As a dedicated teacher, I strive to work with students in ways that model and foster genuine curiosity, deep critical thinking, and concern for real-world issues, and to do so through engaging and accessible pedagogy. Interdisciplinary inquiry shapes the courses I teach and the ways I help students pursue their own critical questions. My courses engage students in the areas of cultural studies, global studies, migration, language, and literature and film, and my teaching experience includes work with undergraduate and graduate students at institutions in the US and the Netherlands.

At the University of Oregon, I teach courses in Italian, migration, and global media, with cross-listings in African Studies and Global Studies. My prior experience includes a community-engaged course in methods at Brown, a university-wide interdisciplinary migrations course at Cornell,  and interdisciplinary cultural studies and language courses at Ohio State. I also taught in Communication in Science at the Leiden University Medical Centre, where I earned a Dutch university teaching certification (BKO), and in the humanities at SUNY - Purchase College in New York. In Italy I worked in residence life with students spending a semester or year abroad. A core of my experience has been in interdisciplinary instruction in higher education.