Courses Taught

Media Studies

• ​​American Film Comedy*
• Cinema History: Early to 1990 (6-hour course)
• Cinema History: 1976–Present
• Cinema of Steven Spielberg
• Critical Studies: TV (media theory/literacy)
• Creating and Maintaining Your Web Presence*
• Film Noir
• Finding Our Roots: Documentaries of Ancestry and Identity
• Gene Kelly and the Art of Cine-dance (for Facets Film School, Chicago)
• Hollywood in the 1980s
• Introduction to Documentary Studies
• Introduction to Film​
• Introduction to Film, online
• Introduction to Film and Film Theory, graduate seminar
• Introduction to Mass Communication
• Introduction to Mass Communication, online 
• Seinfeld*
• Shakespeare in Film
• Sitcom, Satire, and Sketch Comedy*
• Spike Lee and Quentin Tarantino*
• Stand-Up Comedy Documented
• Women in Hollywood: Nora Ephron and Nancy Meyers​

​Literary Studies

• British Literature to 1780
• Introduction to Drama
• Literary Analysis
• Science and Technology in the Drama and Novel
• Shakespeare: Comedy/History
• Shakespeare: Tragedy/Romance
• Shakespeare: Gender, Race, Empire​​
• Writing about Literature I: Math and Science in Poetry and Drama
• ​Writing about Literature II: Math and Science in the Novel

*combined undergraduate/graduate course