Teaching

Guest Lectures

Rollins College (Winter Park, FL):

• 3 Day Conservation Workshop for In-House Special Collections Stabilization

University of Manchester (U.K.):

• Lecture on history of the book, using Apocalypse manuscripts and woodblocks

The Marco Institute for Medieval & Renaissance Studies, University of Tennessee:

• Lecture on developing and executing archival research plan 

Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL

• Assisted in Course Design

• ANT 4190- Professional Archaeology (Fall 2024)

 - Lectured & designed multi-stage project to introduce students to archival research, the Florida State Archives, and writing State and Federally compliant reports. 

• Other Courses Assisted

• ANT 3107- Vikings: Blood & Valour (Spring 2026)

• ANT 4027 -  Mummies (Spring 2026)

• ANT 4034- History of Anthropological Thought (Fall 2025)

• ANT 3017- Anthropology of Harry Potter (Spring 2025)

• ANT 3554- Historical Archaeology (Fall 2024)

• ANT 3177- Caribbean Piracy (Fall 2024)

• ANT 2511- Human Species (Fall 2024)

Associate Instructor, Indiana University, Bloomington, Bloomington, IN

• Sole instructor of record for self-designed and taught courses 

• CMLT-C 155- Culture & the Modern Experience: The American 1960s (Sp. 2016)

 - Two visits to the Lilly Library to examine material from the 1960s 

 - Multimedia teaching, including projecting 16mm 1960s educationalfilms in class

• CMLT-C 155- Culture & the Modern Experience: The Medieval in the Modern (Sp. 2018) 

- Brought teaching collection of Ege fragments to class for final unit on manuscript culture

- Student final projects included creation of a bestiary in a "monastic scriptorium"; Instagram for Andreas Capellanus Memes; Buzzfeed quiz for which courtly knight are you. 

• CMLT-C 151- Intro to Pop Culture: Diversity in the Middle Ages, Diversity in the Modern Ages (Sp. 2019, first-8 weeks course)

- Virtual exhibit visits to libraries' medieval holdings, including the Morgan Library's exhibition on Medieval Fashion.

• Instructor for breakout sections of College-designed, professor-led courses 

 • COLL-C 103- King Arthur (Fall 2013, Fall 2015, Fall 2020)

- Honed ability to present medieval cultural ideas to diverse audience

 - Worked collaboratively with professor and other instructor to present medieval material.  

• COLL-P 155- Public Oral Communication (Fall 2018)

- Attended weekly collaborative meetings

- Taught various communication strategies of oral communication for diverse audiences

• Instructor for department-designed course with individual instructor material selection 

• CMLT-C 110- Writing the World (Sp. 2014, Fall 2016, Sp.2017)

- Rotating topics: Villains & Antiheros; Us Against Them; Bad Company.

- Selected modern & medieval texts that allowed discussion of Book History

Adjunct Faculty (Online), University of Florida, Gainesville, Fl

• Instructor of record for 2 sections of Canvas-based, distance-learning upper level Medieval course

• MEM3300- Castles & Cloisters (Spring 2018)

- Was consulted and assisted Professor Will Hasty convert his classroom course to online format

- Gained experience with online teaching and course development

Lecturer, Université Paris Ouest—Nanterre La Defense (Paris X), Nanterre, France 

• Instructor for various levels of English courses designed by University and self-designed

- Taught unique courses for improvement of oral and reading comprehension 

Fall 2014: 

Compréhension A1

Speaking with Expression C1

Langue Orale A1

Level A2 English

Spring 2015:

Langues étrangères appliquées level C1

Langues et Cultures Etrangères level B2, Public Speaking

Sciences sociales et administration, level A2 & C1

Visiting Lecturer, Université Paris III—Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, France

• Instructor for a self-designed course of American culture, language, and literature 

Spring 2015:

La communication dans tous ses états B1