Teaching

I teach courses on Myth and Folklore, Vikings Age Literature, J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, and the History and Structure of the English Language.

Courses Taught

Literature

  • Vikings: Lives and Lore (upper-level undergraduate, Missouri University of Science and Technology)
  • Mythology and Folklore (upper-level undergraduate, Missouri University of Science and Technology)
  • The Lives and Works of J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis (upper-level undergraduate, Missouri University of Science and Technology)
  • Arthurian Tradition (upper-level undergraduate, Missouri University of Science and Technology)
  • The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer (upper-level undergraduate, Missouri University of Science and Technology)
  • The Bible and Literature: Cross-listed English and Theology (upper-level undergraduate, Saint Louis University and Missouri University of Science and Technology)
  • Fantasy Literature (upper-level undergraduate, Missouri University of Science and Technology)
  • The Oxford Christians: Tolkien, Lewis, and Williams (Assisted Professor Thomas A. Shippey. Saint Louis University)
  • Introduction to Drama (Saint Louis University)
  • British Literature I: Beginnings to 1800 (sophomore-level, Missouri University of Science and Technology)
  • World Literature I: Beginnings to the Renaissance (sophomore-level, Missouri University of Science and Technology)

Linguistics

  • History and Structure of the English Language (upper-level undergraduate, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Every Spring)
  • A Linguistic Study of Modern English (upper-level undergraduate, Missouri University of Science and Technology)
  • Discourse Analysis (graduate, Missouri University of Science and Technology)

Composition and Rhetoric

  • Advanced Rhetoric and Research Practices (Saint Louis University)
  • Writing and Research—A Critical Study of Film and Culture (Missouri University of Science and Technology)
  • Exposition and Argumentation (Missouri University of Science and Technology)
  • The Process of Composition (Saint Louis University)

Teaching Abroad

  • Extreme Nature and the Supernatural in Iceland (Iceland, 3-week Summer Study Abroad)
  • Geoffrey Chaucer’s London (London, England: Missouri-London Program)
  • Myth and Folklore of the British Isles (London, England: Missouri-London Program)

Online

  • History and Structure of the English Language (Missouri University of Science and Technology, asynchronous)
  • Myth and Folklore (Missouri University of Science and Technology, asynchronous)
  • The Lives and Works of C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien (Missouri University of Science and Technology, blended)
  • Fantasy Literature (Missouri University of Science and Technology, asynchronous)
  • British Literature I: Beginnings to 1800 (Missouri University of Science and Technology, synchronous)
  • Exposition and Argumentation (Missouri University of Science and Technology, blended and asynchronous)