Courses Taught

My classroom is a space for experimentation. It is a site for dialogue, where students are acknowledged as knowledge producers and artists. I aim to create a space for students to forge connections between course material, larger society, and their own lives, and encourage them to engage with ideas that challenge them, take productive risks, and maintain space for contradiction and flux as they progress in their intellectual development. I treat my students as whole and complex beings, and create an environment where we can discuss ideas with a mind toward the social, cultural, and ethical implications of knowledge production and community praxis.

Sample Syllabi

Latinx Sexualities

This course is a creative and reading intensive introduction to the interdisciplinary field of Latinx sexuality studies. We will work from an understanding of Latinx sexualities as complex processes in flux, not static objects to be observed.

Interdisciplinary Perspectives in Women’s Studies

Taking an interdisciplinary approach, we will draw on knowledge produced in a variety of fields, from art and history to philosophy, literature, and beyond to understand women’s lives and contributions to culture and society.

Race, sex, representation

This course engages scholarly debates around the injuries and pleasures that attend the sexual representation of gendered/racialized people in art, film, performance, and other media.

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Latina Issues in Cultural Production

How have Latinas navigated the roles of artist and cultural icon in societal contexts that make this almost impossible due to the oppressive structures of nationalism, racism, capitalism and cisheteropatriarchy? What price do they have to pay to be visible and valued as producers of culture?

Critical girlhood studies

This course enacts a critical mapping of girls’ studies, an intellectual formation that coalesced into a sub-field of Women’s and Gender Studies in the late 1990s. The course will consist in part of a survey of work in the field, but the bulk of our efforts will place analytic pressure on the question of which girls become legible as the “proper objects” of girls’ studies and what questions about girlhood are (im)possible to ask.

Theorizing Embodiment

In this transdisciplinary course we will engage primarily with recent work that interrogates the social, political, and philosophical stakes of embodiment as it pertains to racialization, gender, class, colonialism, sexualities and discourses of ability and disability.