Teaching

I have been on the faculty of the Sweetland Center for Writing at the University of Michigan since Fall 2012, and in July 2022 I became the Director of the Lloyd Scholars for Writing and the Arts. I also have served as Dzanc Writer-in-Residence at Ann Arbor Open School most years since 2007, and led workshops at the Neutral Zone for over a decade, both as facilitator of the Short Story Workshop and as poetry instructor for the Volume Summer Institute. You can find my full CV at the bottom of this page.

Here’s a sampling of writing course titles I’ve designed and taught at the University of Michigan over the past decade:

  • Telling Stories: The Rhetoric and Representation of Race and Ethnicity
  • Hoaxes, Conspiracies, Parodies, and Lies: Confronting Fake News In All Its Guises
  • Fantasy Worldbuilding
  • Poetry and Justice
  • Poetry Magic and Science
  • Writing in the Surreal World
  • Writing and Seeing
  • College Writing for International Students
  • The Rhetoric of Online Dating
  • The Rhetoric of Blogging