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TEACHING
Courses Taught, University of Minnesota
2003-2004
English 3005: Survey of American Literature and Culture, I (Fall)
English 8520: Seminar in Advanced Cultural Theory and Practice — “The Material Text:
Comparative Studies in Print Culture” (Fall)
English 8625: Dissertation Seminar (Spring)
2002-2003
English 3005: Survey of American Literature and Culture, Part I (Fall)
English 3960-3: Senior Seminar — “American Renaissance: Culture and Consciousness in the 19 th
Century” (Fall)
American Studies 8401: Practicum — “The Life of the Modern University: Institutions,
Values and Practices of Teaching” (Fall)
English 1501: Literature of Public Life (Spring)
English 8200: Seminar in American Literature — “ Liberal Virtues: Ethics, Aesthetics,
and the Democratic Subject” (Spring)
English 8625: Dissertation Seminar (Spring)
2000-2001
English 5120: Reading in American Literature — "Sentiment and Realism" (Fall)
American Studies 8801: Dissertation Seminar (Fall)
English 1501: Literature of Public Life (Fall)
English 3870: Figures in North American Literature — "American Renaissance" (Spring)
1999-2000
English 3005w: Survey of American Literature and Culture, I (Fall)
English 1202-2: Introduction to American Literature (Fall)
English 3221: American Novel to 1900 (Spring)
English 3070: Studies in Literary and Cultural Modes — “The Culture of Capitalism”
(Spring)
English 8290: Topics in American Literature — “Self-Help: History, Theory, and
Practice of the Democratic Subject” (Spring)
1998-1999
English 8530: Studies in Nineteenth-Century American Literature — “Cultural History of
Reading in America” (Fall Quarter, 1998)
English 3008: Techniques of Literary Study (Fall Quarter, 1998)
English 1016: Introduction to American Literature — “American Individualism” (Winter
Quarter, 1999)
English 5471: American Drama — “Melodrama in America” (Winter Quarter, 1999)
Courses Taught, Harvard University
History and Literature 97: Sophomore Seminar required of majors (1994-1998)
English 97. Sophomore Seminar required of majors (1996-1998)
Freshman Seminar 04: “Reading in America” (Fall Semester, 1997)
History and Literature 91: Seminar — “The Culture of Reading in America” (Spring Semester, 1996)
Graduate Advising
Ph.D. Dissertation Committees, English Department
Joan Menefee, “Decoding Distraction: Attention in American Culture, 1871-1916.” (Dec 2004). Advisor
Julia Bleakney, “Revisiting Vietnam: Memorials, Museums, Memoirs.” (May 2004). Reader
Marcela Kostihova, “Shakespeare, Ltd.: Political Bardolatry in the Post-Socialist Czech
Republic,” October 2003. Reader
Penelope Myrtle Kelsey, “Native American Auto-Ethnography, Sovereignty, and Self:
Tribal Knowledges in New Genres.” Final oral examination, June 2002. Reader
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