Using tested tools from the national astronomy education community, I created active-learning exercises, demonstrations, assignments, etc., videos to engage students with class material delivered in hybrid and online courses to improve learning.
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I spent my sabbatical as a visiting researcher in Area & Cultural Studies at University of Helsinki.
This memoir-in-essays traces how my journey into gender justice movements in the 1990s Midwest informed my role as a caregiver for my father in a post-9/11 New York City.
Megan Abbott’s novels, and forays into other genres of popular media (television and comic books), through the lenses of feminist epistemology and the twenty-first century gothic.
This book project compels Harry Potter studies to “get woke,” shedding light on current cultural wars surrounding gender, sexuality, and humanism and contributing to a much-needed conversation about the tension between liberalism and “wokeness.”
Inspired in part by the works of John Steinbeck and Carlos Bulosan, Mud on the Moon is an interlacing of lyrical stories and memoir, historical research and meta-narrative, to map dreams, migration, and memory.
I have composed a piece entitled Four Moods for Orchestra (Symphony No. 1). It has four movements, entitled Confusion, Depression, A Glimmer of Hope, and Elation.
How do young people use augmented reality to memorialize the their experience during the Covid pandemic and BLM protests of Spring/Summer 2020.
I explore the narrative strategies southern writers employ to resist, satirize, and creatively negotiate evangelical communities.