Teaching Philosophy:
Writing, thinking, and speaking are all close cousins of the same brain functions and they rely on sensory stimulation from environments and communities. All of my classes, whether creative writing, critical writing, or literary in content, are both a laboratory and a community that allows for aggregate and recursive learning within a familiar yet expanding intellectual territory. Self-awareness of scope, purpose, and real application of knowledge guide the development of techniques and skills. Students can expect to appreciate the differences between being academic, scholarly, and intellectual, and to have a foundation for the self-agency necessary to perform accordingly in their writing, thinking, and speaking interactions throughout their lives.