Teaching Employment
Assistant Professor, Princeton Department of Comparative Literature and the Center for African American Studies
Teaching Assistant, UCLA Department of English, 2007-2008.
Lecturer, UCLA Department of Comparative Literature, 2006–2008.
Lecturer, UCLA Graduate Division, 1999–present.
Visiting Lecturer, University of Khartoum, April 30-May 5, 2007.
Visiting Lecturer, University of Virginia, September 18, 2004; October 30 and 31, 2006.
Visiting Lecturer, University of Bergen, September 4-22, 2006.
Visiting Lecturer, University of Malawi, April 25-29, 2005.
Instructor, UCLA Extension, 1995–2001.
Courses
Assistant Professor
Growing Up Global: Novels and Memoirs of Transnational Childhoods
Africa in the African American Literary Imagination
Institution: Princeton University
Terms: fall 2008
Teaching Assistant
4W Critical Reading and Writing
Institution: UCLA Department of English
Terms: spring 2008
10B British Literature from 1660 to 1832
Institution: UCLA Department of English
Terms: summer 2007
Graduate Student Writing Courses
Writing and Publishing the Humanities Academic Article
Institution: UCLA Graduate Division
Terms: five: summer 2003; summer 2004; summer 2005; summer 2006; summer 2007.
Writing and Publishing the Social Science Academic Article
Institution: UCLA Graduate Division
Terms: five: summer 2003; summer 2004; summer 2005; summer 2006; summer 2007.
Writing and Publishing the Academic Article
Institution: UCLA Graduate Division
Terms: four: summer 1999; summer 2000; summer 2001; summer 2002.
Institution: UCLA Extension
Terms: five: summer 1995; summer 1998; winter 1999; winter 2000; winter 2001.
Designed and teach a ten-week seminar (12-18 participants) for graduate students on revising an essay for a peer-reviewed journal. Based on the latest research, the course has assisted hundreds to publish good work and overcome writing anxiety. The course has received special funding as part of an effort to improve graduate education at UCLA, in particular student satisfaction, time to degree, and employment prospects. I remain in contact with the students for several years through the publication process.
Scholarly Writing at Every Stage
Institution: UCLA Comparative Literature Department
Terms: two years: fall 2006-spring 2007; fall 2007-spring 2008.
Designed and teach a one-year peer-based writing course for thirty graduate students.
Writing and Publishing the Book Review
Institution: UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center
Terms: winter and spring 2003.
Designed and taught a two-term book review writing course for fifty graduate students.
International Writing Workshops
Writing and Publishing the Academic Article
Institutions and terms:
- University of Khartoum, Khartoum, Sudan, April 30-May 5, 2007.
- Department of Political Science, University of Norway, Bergen, September 18-22, 2006.
- Department of Geography, University of Norway, Bergen, September 11-15, 2006.
- Department of Anthropology, University of Norway, Bergen, September 4-8, 2006.
- University of Malawi, Malawi, April 25-29, 2005.
- Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, Oslo, Norway, August 25-29, 2003.
- Chr. Michelsen Institute, Bergen, Norway, April 23-29, 2001.
Designed and teach an on-site and distance-learning seminar (8-15 participants) on writing for publication for international graduate student and faculty researchers.
Writing a Multiple-Author Textbook, University of Malawi, May 2-6, 2005.
Converting Your Dissertation into a Book, Chr. Michelsen Institute, Bergen, Norway, September 1-5, 2003.
Guest Lectures
"Samuel Johnson and Abyssinia," for Felicity Nussbaum’s Eighteenth-Century Literature graduate seminar, UCLA Department of English, November 20, 2006.
"Memoir Literature," for Chris Abani’s Creative Nonfiction seminar, University of California Riverside, November 13, 2004.
"Travel Literature on Africa," for Ali Behdad’s Victorian Literature seminar, UCLA English Department, October 18, 2000.
One-day Workshops
Writing and Publishing the Academic Article
Institutions and dates:
University of Virginia, September 18, 2004; October 30 and 31, 2006.
University of Bergen, September 25, 2006.
UCLA Comparative Literature Department, April 8, 2006.
Developed and taught a one-day workshop (20-30 participants) on article writing and motivation for graduate students and junior faculty.
Managing and Publishing an Academic Journal
Institutions and dates:
UCLA Graduate Student Association, November 11, 2000; February 8, 2003; February 2004.
UCLA Spanish Department, November 4, 1999.
Developed and taught a one-day workshop (30 participants) on journal publishing for graduate students, including the peer review process, copyediting, and distribution.
Three-Hour Workshops
University of California, Riverside, November 2006; UCLA Linguistics Department, April 2005; UCLA Psychology Department, March 6, 2001; UCLA Human Resources, November 13, 2000; UCLA Campus Editors and Writers, August 31, 2000; Mount Saint Mary’s College, October 23, 2000; UCLA Campus Editors and Writers, April 13, 2000; February 8, 1996; UCLA Anthropology Department, December 1, 1999; UCLA Film and TV Department, November 19, 1999; UCLA Education Department, January 27, 1999.
Fields of Teaching Interest
Eighteenth-century English literature, with a focus on race and gender, imperialism, orientalism, travel, and censorship in novels, drama, essays, and sermons.
Postcolonial literature, with a focus on resistance, postmodernism, cultural studies, travel, theory, or exile in African and South Asian novels, autobiography, periodicals, and film.
Twentieth-century literature, including post-war British drama, modern lyric poetry, African American and Latino novels, women’s intellectual autobiography.
