Teaching

Teaching

I do not identify as a career academic. I am a teacher. For most of my life in academia, I served as a Man (or Girl) Friday, filling in or taking over from staff on leave, resigned, retired, or deceased. I started teaching within weeks after receiving my BA at Lehman College, City University of New York (CUNY), and continued teaching at Lehman College (CUNY) as an MA student. While I pursued my PhD, I taught at Hunter College (CUNY) and at the CUNY Graduate Center.

Relocating to Britain, I continued teaching in Wales, and, on behalf of Aberystwyth University, in mainland China, on a zero-hour contract basis before receiving a lectureship.

In my adjunct teaching, I drew on my Liberal Arts education, and while it left me without any sizeable pension, teaching on demand taught me a great deal and enriched my life.

This is a partial list of classes/subjects I have taught over the years, excluding occasional contributions to modules taught by others. Titles of modules I created and/or coordinated appear in blue.

Introductory German

Advanced German

The Language of German Politics

Translation (German/English)

German Literature (German language)

Introduction to the Humanities

Introduction to Literature

“Fiction: The Long and Short of It”

”Beyond Dogs and Diamonds: Portraits of American Friendships” (American Literature)

“Shakespeare: Within and without ‘this wooden O’” (English Literature)

Poetry: Reflecting on Echoes (English Literature)

Gothic Imagination (Art History)

^{Adaptation (Art History)}

Postmodernism and Contemporary Art (Art History)

Artworld (MA)

Representing the Body (Huanghuai University)

Landscape (Huanghuai University)

Looking into Landscape (Art History)

Art in Europe and America (1900-1950)

Curating an Exhibition

Reading, Researching, and Re-writing

Effective Academic Writing (MA and PhD seminar)

Remedial English

Advanced Composition

Writing for the Web

Business Writing

Professional Writing (non-academic seminar)

Writing about Art