The Family Silver

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Teaching

I want my students to develop more confidence and power in my classes—both intellectually and personally. I like my classroom to be a paradoxical place, offering a secure space where students can take risks; I create assignments that ask students to do original and creative work, while at the same time showing their command of the theories, methods, and readings the course has been covering. I want my students to imaginatively possess their thoughts and words—and so look forward both to hearing what they say and reading what they write. "Silence is starvation" poet Cherrie Moraga says: I want my students to find the words that will nourish, inspire and change them—this is my vocation, and my passion. I am interested in interdisciplinary ways of thinking and writing, and teach in the American Studies Department and the Women's Studies program as well as in the English Department.