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

Haunting in American Culture Syllabus

Introduction to African American Women’s History (in Lockhart Correctional Facility)

African American Women’s Political Literature (In Lockhart Correctional Facility)

Prison Art, Literature, and Protest Syllabus