Teaching and Pedagogy
I aim to encourage my students to see me as a facilitator of their learning and a collaborator, rather than an authority figure. I teach from an abolitionist lens. Particularly when working in non-traditional learning environments, like prisons and jails, my aim is to subvert class and race-based assumptions about teaching and authority. As such, I want students to lead discussions and act as experts whenever possible. I have taught Prison Art, Literature and Protest and Haunting in American Culture at the University of Texas at Austin and am currently co-teaching African American Women’s History at Lockhart Correctional Facility in Lockhart Texas. I have served as a teaching assistant in American Studies, Women’s Studies, American History, African History, and European History. I have been trained by the Inside Out Prison Exchange. Below you will find links to my syllabi as well as a collective bibliography created with my students in Haunting in American Culture
“No oppressive order could permit the oppressed to begin to question”
