UPCOMING COURSES

  • No current upcoming courses

CURRENT COURSES

  • Literature for Young Children - (Spring 2025, Blended, West Chester University)

  • Literature for Young Children - (Spring 2025, Online, West Chester University)

  • Critical Writing and Research - (Spring 2025, Blended, West Chester University)

 

PREVIOUS COURSES

Read, discuss, and write about books and media such as:
📒 Judy Blume’s Forever
📙 Maia Kobabe’s Gender Queer (the most banned book of 2023)
📗Alice Oseman’s Heartstopper (and the Netflix show)
📘 Jason Reynolds’ Long Way Down
📒 Mike Curato’s Flamer
📙 Scenes from Bring It On

The class will explore historical and contemporary debates about book challenges. You will develop your ability to think critically about book challenges and the concept of selection.

With a focus on comics in the second part of the semester, a medium that has historically been challenged at higher rates than text-exclusive books, the class will learn how to read images for teenage readers and investigate the connection between teens and comics cultures.

University Courses

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  • First-Year Experience: Arts and Humanities (Fall 2024, West Chester University)

  • Literature for Young Children - (Spring 2024-Spring 2025 Blended, West Chester University)

  • Young Adult Literature - (Spring 2022, West Chester University)

  • Critical Writing: Popular Culture - (Spring 2024, West Chester University)

  • Literature for Young Children - (Spring 2024-Spring 2025 West Chester University; Taught online)

  • Investigating Experience - (Spring 2021, West Chester University; Taught remotely)

  • Children’s Literature (Fall 2022, West Chester University; Taught remotely)

  • Boys on the Road: The Young Adult Road Trip Story (Fall 2020, West Chester University; Taught remotely)

  • Effective Writing (Fall 2020, West Chester University; Taught remotely)

  • Digital Literacies (Summer II 2020, West Chester Writing Project, West Chester University; Taught remotely)

  • Literature for Young Children - Online (Spring 2020; Fall 2023, West Chester University)

  • Literature for Young Children (Fall 2018-Fall 2019; Fall 2021-Spring 2022, West Chester University)

  • Investigating Experience - Online (Fall 2020, West Chester University)

  • Young Adult Literature (Summer 2019, Independent Study, West Chester University)

  • Comics for Young Readers (Spring 2019, West Chester University)

  • Critical Writing and Research (Fall 2018-Spring 2019, West Chester University)

  • Media and the Sexes (Fall 2016-Spring 2017, Western Michigan University)

  • Adolescent Literature (Spring 2015, Western Michigan University)

  • Language Variation in American English (Fall 2014, Western Michigan University)

  • US Literature and Culture (Spring 2014, Western Michigan University)

  • American Literature I (Fall 2013, Western Michigan University)

  • Written English II Online (Summer 2013, Fairmont State University)

  • Literary Interpretation (Fall 2011-Spring 2013, Western Michigan University)

  • Imaginative Literature and Critical Writing (Spring 2011; 2010, Duquesne University)

  • Thinking and Writing Across the Curriculum (Fall 2010; Fall 2009, Duquesne University)

High School Courses

  • English 12 - British Literature

  • English 11 - American Literature

  • English 9 - Honors

  • MyFoundations Lab

  • Introduction to High School Reading + Writing

  • Introduction to Careers