A 3000-level course for English undergraduate students at the University of Central Oklahoma, offered in both face-to-face and online formats. The course combines Kim F. Hall's "Othello Was My Grandfather" with Emma Smith's work on Shakespeare's "gappiness" to build the foundation from which students are encouraged to approach the texts: as evolving cultural products whose origin is in a culture quite distinct and distant from our own. Students read plays alongside critical work, global adaptations, and context readings emphasizing the ways "Shakespeare" has meant differently in different contexts. 

A 4000-level course designed for undergraduate students in the English department and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies programs at the University of Central Oklahoma. Students collaborate to create course guidelines through a community agreement. Taking Archive of Our Own as the primary site of study, the course is then structured through a combination of weekly critical readings and student-submitted fic readings to introduce students to the study of fan fiction and fan fiction communities. Students are invited to approach the major writing assignments through traditional papers or through criticism-informed fic writing. 

A cross-listed course for English, Humanities and Philosophy, and Womens, Gender, and Sexuality Studies undergraduate and graduate students at the University of Central Oklahoma. This course used a range of readings on "queenship" to encourage students to interrogate gender norms, power structures, and language use. One highlight was the midterm project, in which students collaborated for a display at the college's Spring Symposium: students selected an artifact from the British Museum, researched that artifact's history in the context of imperial colonialism, and then created artifacts (in partnership with UCO's Innovation Studio makerspace) responding to that history and the themes of the class.

A 3000-level course designed for undergraduate students in English at the University of Central Oklahoma. In this survey course, students read texts from a range of historical literary traditions. Through presentations, students share a rich resource library of critical perspectives and voices; students also work through journals and an annotated bibliography to produce a paper that deeply engages one text or tradition. The course emphasizes an approach to world literatures that prioritizes their specific cultural and interconnected contexts. The ongoing student blog project can be accessed here: https://blogs.uco.edu/worldlit1/

A course designed for graduate students in English at the University of Central Oklahoma. Using Kim F. Hall's Things of Darkness as a theoretical base, students engage in a first unit on core principles in early modern study and historiography, moving into a second unit on generically and materially informed approaches to literary study. Students work through several stages to create the final seminar paper, learning to use a range of online and digital humanities tools in the process.

A course designed for graduate students in English at the University of Central Oklahoma. Plays are paired with diverse and inclusive critical perspectives, contemporary plays by other playwrights, modern adaptations, and global perspectives. Students offer responses to each play in seminar meetings, while engaging in intensive scholarly work to produce a literature review and seminar paper.