Classes

Small Graduate Seminar Classes that I Developed and Loved Teaching:

      • Queer/ing Ethics
      • Feminist and Queer Explorations in Troublemaking (taught two times)

Classes that I Taught that Were Out of my Research Areas and that I Didn’t Know Much About Before Teaching Them*:

  • Rebels, Radicals, and Revolutionaries: History of Western Feminisms
  • International Feminist Theory: Feminism from a Transnational Perspective\
  • Politics of Sex (Social Sciences)
  • Introduction to GLBT Studies
  • Queering Desire
    *In order, from least to most knowledge prior to teaching class

Classes that I Taught that Were New to Me But that Quickly Became Central to my Research, Teaching, and Writing:

  • Feminist Pedagogies (taught three times)
  • Queering Theory (taught three times)
  • Contemporary Feminist Debates (taught five times)

Classes that I Taught as a Graduate Student at Emory University in Which I Was Mentored, Payed Well, and Not Exploited:

  • Introduction to Women’s Studies (Sole Instructor, taught two times)
  • History of Feminist Thought (Teaching Assistant)
  • Women and American Identities (Teaching Assistant)

The Biggest Class that I Taught that Forced Me to Realize that I Despised Big Classes in Auditoriums and that I Was Not Cut Out for Managing 115+ Students, 2 Teaching Assistants, and a lot of Blog Assignments:

  • Politics of Sex

The Class that I Taught in which I Scheduled a Screening of Nine to Five that I Didn’t Attend So That I Could See John Legend and Corrine Bailey Rae in Concert:

  • Popular Culture Woman

The Class that I Taught in which I Encountered a Student who Despised my Teaching (more than any other student I had ever had) and then Forcefully Requested that I Allow Her to Take my Feminist Pedagogies Class the Following Semester*:

  • Rebels, Radicals, and Revolutionaries: History of Western Feminisms
    *Request denied.

The First Class that I Taught at the University, where I Met One of my Favorite Colleagues/People Ever and in Which I Got to Teach Halloween on Halloween:

  • Feminist Thought and Theory

The Class That I Taught About 5 Hours After Finding Out That My Mom Had Died From Pancreatic Cancer:

  • Feminist Pedagogies

The Last Class That I Taught at the University, which is also the Last Class That I’ve Taught Since Fall 2011:

  • Queering Theory

The “Official” List 

Undergraduate

  • Introduction to Women’s Studies
  • Politics of Sex
  • Introduction to GLBT Studies
  • Point/Counterpoint: Contemporary Feminist Debates
  • Popular Culture Woman
  • Queering Theory
  • Queering Desire
  • Rebels, Radicals, and Revolutionaries: History of Western Feminisms
  • International Feminist Theory: Feminism from a Transnational Perspective
  • Feminist Thought and Theory
  • History of Feminist Thought (teaching assistant)
  • Women and American Identities (teaching assistant)

Graduate

  • International Feminist Theory: Feminism from a Transnational Perspective
  • Feminist Pedagogies
  • Feminist and Queer Explorations in Troublemaking
  • Queer Ethics

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