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 prioritizes 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. 

A course designed for senior English majors at the University of Arkansas. Course texts included Richard II, 1 Henry IV, 2 Henry IV, Coriolanus, Macbeth, Antony and Cleopatra, The Tempest, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Winter's Tale, and a selection of poetry and key speeches. The course covered critical perspectives on Mondays, global Shakespeares on Wednesdays, and adaptation and performance on Fridays. Students produced one presentation on a play not covered in class, three response papers, and a final critical, researched paper. 

A course designed for first-year students at the University of Arkansas. Course texts included The Merchant of Venice, Othello, Hamlet, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, and The Revenger's Tragedy, as well as The Serpent of Venice and accompanying film adaptations. Students produced two short papers focused on transferable writing skills, regular journal entries, a midterm collaborative wiki, and a researched multimedia project.

See student work and course materials here: https://ourshakespeareanworld.wordpress.com/

See the midterm project here: http://serpent-of-venice.wikia.com/wiki/Serpent_of_Venice_Wikia

A course designed for first-year students at the University of Arkansas. Course texts included Bring Up the Bodies; Henry VIII: The King and his Court; selections from Erasmus, Barclay, More, and Henry VIII; and essays by Peter C. Herman and Gerard Wegemer. Students produced multimedia journals, two short papers, and a cumulative research project applying New Historicist principles.

See the presentation notes from the resulting IRB-approved research, including samples of student work, here: https://prezi.com/6ry-wduzx918/?token=606503b057fc9d3fa705c57c239c5184e05f97ec1d63780dc911030fa0e49e12

A course designed for first-year students at the University of Arkansas. Course texts included World War Z, Aim for the Head, Romero's films, and works by Octavia Butler, Tim O'Brien, Wilfred Owen, and Wislawa Szymborska. Students produced semester-long journals, engaged in regular online discussion, and wrote four papers focused on honing transferable analytical and rhetorical skills.

See the course site, including student discussion posts, here: https://decomposition2.wordpress.com/