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 engage their own critical questions. My courses engage students in the areas of cultural studies, global studies, 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 Cornell I launched a new interdisciplinary migrations course in Fall 2020, and I support students enrolled in the migration studies minor. While a PhD student at the Ohio State University I designed and taught introductory and upper-level courses in Comparative Studies, and I also taught Italian language in the French and Italian Department.

My experience also includes positions in Communication in Science at the Leiden University Medical Centre, where I taught academic writing, and in the humanities at SUNY - Purchase College in New York, where I completed pedagogical training. 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.

Recently taught courses

Cornell University

Instructor of record:

• Migrations: A Global, Interdisciplinary, Multispecies Examination (Development Sociology and Cornell's Migrations initiative): co-taught and run as a combination of public-facing lectures and a seminar for enrolled students
  https://migrations.cornell.edu/study

The Ohio State University

Instructor of record:

• Representations of Experiences of War (Comparative Studies)
• Literature and Society (Comparative Studies)
• Beginning Italian (French and Italian)

Teaching assistant:

• Introduction to World Literature (Comparative Studies)
• Introduction to the Humanities (Comparative Studies)

Guest lecturer:

• Italian Identities (French and Italian)
• Politics of Immigration (Political Science)
• Global Feminisms (Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies)
• Introduction to Popular Culture (Comparative Studies)