Teaching

I have been teaching in the Department of English at York University since 2007. In 2009, I was appointed to the Graduate Program in English, and I became an Associate Member of the Graduate Program in Theatre and Performance Studies in 2012.

Shakespeare is one of my areas of specialization, and so I have taught undergraduate and graduate courses on a range of related topics: for several years, now, I have taught a third-year, introductory survey of Shakespeare’s works mainly focused on his plays, undergraduate and graduate seminars on global adaptations and appropriations of Shakespeare, and a graduate seminar on Shakespeare and early modern political theory.

I have also taught our introductory survey of British Literature from the medieval period to the modern as well as courses on Chaucer and Travel Literature in English (covering works from 1500 to the present).

My article on teaching early modern travel literature is forthcoming (Fall 2014) in a collection from Palgrave Macmillan called Teaching Medieval and Early Modern Cross-Cultural Encounters Across Disciplines and Eras, edited by Karina Attar and Lynn Shutters. Next summer (2015), I will be co-chairing (with Jacek Fabiszak and Georgi Niagolov) a seminar on Shakespeare pedagogy at the meeting of the European Shakespeare Research Association (ESRA), which will take place at the University of Worcester from the 29th of June to the 2nd of July.