Teaching

I am teaching three courses during Fall 2025 at West Texas A&M University.

Course descriptions and syllabi are available below.

If you have any specific questions about course topics, please feel free to email me.

ENGL 4392/5392: Victorian Poetry

Course Description

This semester, we’re going to do more than read Victorian poetry; we’ll challenge how it’s been remembered, anthologized, and taught. 

Together we’ll explore how some poems become “important,” why some voices get preserved while others fade, and what role we play as readers, researchers, and editors in shaping literary history.  

Through close reading, collaborative annotation, and guided research, we’ll engage with both canonical writers and lesser-known poets whose work pushes us to reconsider what Victorian poetry is and can be. Along the way, we’ll grapple with themes like grief, labor, gender, nationalism, and protest, examining how form, context, audience, and critical framing shape meaning.  

Students will contribute to a living digital edition of Victorian Poetry and Poetics through research-based annotations and a final project that asks us to consider not just what we read, but why and how our choices matter.   

Dual Listed Course Information 

This dual-listed (sometimes also called “split-level” or “stacked”) course serves both upper-level undergraduate (ENGL 4392) and graduate (ENGL 5392) students. While all students will attend the same sessions and engage with shared readings and core objectives, there are distinct expectations for each level. Graduate students are required to conduct more advanced research, produce more written work, engage deeper with scholarly sources, and demonstrate higher-level analytical and methodological rigor, in keeping with SACSCOC standards 3.6.2 and 9.6.