Literature

In addition to consistent literature instruction in my themed composition courses at both Georgia Tech and the University of South Carolina, I have experience teaching SOST101, a southern literature survey in the Southern Studies program at the University of South Carolina. This section includes sample syllabi and assignments.

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Southern Studies 101: The Literary South

Sample Coursework

As an end-of-year review, my students collectively filled in a Google document that I prepared with questions relevant to their exam. Their answers were collected in real time and not proofread, but the students’ writing still demonstrates careful thought about texts that, in some cases, had not been reviewed in months.


American Literature after 1865

below is a sample syllabus for a planned American lit survey course