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fall 2024

Introduction to Psychoanalysis: History, Theory, Practice
Study of a Genre: World Autobiography


fall 2023

Wild Things: Children's Literature and the Psychoanalytic Study of the Child
Topics in Poetry and Poetics: The Person in the Poem


other courses taught 21st-Century Autobiography (First-Year Seminar)
American Autobiography
American Fiction and Memory
American Poetry

American Short Fiction to 1900
Americans in Paris
American Women Writers
Animal Studies: Representation, Critique, Engagement (graduate)
Atlanticisms (graduate proseminar)
Art, Addiction, and Modernity

Cinema and Psychoanalysis
Dissertation Workshop
Emily Dickinson at Large (First-Year Seminar)
Forming and Reforming American Literature: 1820-1860 (graduate)
Forms of Encounter
Futures of American Poetry (graduate)
Histories of Forgetting (graduate)
Introduction to Literature: Dangerous Writers
Introduction to Psychoanalysis: History, Theory, Practice (with Dr. Susan Adelman)
Literature of the Americas to 1900
Literatures of Psychoanalysis
Lives of the Death Drive (graduate seminar)
Madness of American Literature (graduate)
Memory of Slavery (MLA proseminar)
Mourning and Sexuality in the English Elegy
Mourning and Sexuality in the English Elegy (graduate)
Mourning Literatures, Mourning Cultures
Narrativism and Historical Poetics: The Nineteenth Century (graduate)
Philadelphia Fire: Art and Politics in America from the Declaration of Independence to the MOVE Bombing (LPS Proseminar)
Poe and Popular Culture
Poetry and Pace in the Early U.S.
Psychoanalysis and Autobiography (with Dr. Mark Moore)
Queer Autobiography
Slavery and the Literary Imagination

Topics in Poetry and Poetics: The Person in the Poem
 Transatlantic Traffic: London, Philadelphia, and the World: 1666-1876
Transcendentalism in America
Undergraduate Honors Seminar
Whitman and Williams: Contact, Utopia (graduate, with Bob Perelman)
Worlds of English Poetry, 1660-1912