Public:
Reading Moby-Dick with Hester Blum, The Rosenbach, 2024-2025, 2022-2023.
Graduate:
Proseminar in Nineteenth-Century American Prose, Fall 2023, Spring 2016
Polar Humanities/Blue Humanities/Environmental Humanities, Fall 2022
Introduction to Graduate Study, Fall 2020, 2021
Archipelagic American Studies, Fall 2018
Environmental Humanities and American Literature, Fall 2016
History of the Book in the US to 1900, Spring 2014
Oceanic American Studies, Spring 2012
Materials and Methods of Research, Fall 2011, Fall 2012
Herman Melville, Spring 2010
Studies in Nineteenth-Century American Literature: Personal Narratives, Spring 2009
Undergraduate:
Literature and the Environment, Spring 2024, 2025
Herman Melville, (honors), Fall 2024, Spring 2017
The Literature of Polar Voyaging, Spring 2023
American Novel to 1900, Spring 2007, Fall 2003, Spring 2013, Fall 2015, Spring 2017, Spring 2021, Spring 2022
The Short Story, Fall 2020
The Print Culture of Early African American Literature, Spring 2019
Cli-Fi (Climate Fiction), Fall 2016
Literature of Polar Exploration (honors), Spring 2014
Literature and Society: The History of the American Book to 1900, Fall 2011
The Possibilities of English, Fall 2008, Fall 2009
“Faculty Favorites: Books for the Struggle to Come,” Edge Effects, http://edgeeffects.net/environmental-books-on-struggles-to-come/.
"Sea Changes," Journal of the Early Republic Panorama roundtable, Bringing the Sea into the Classroom. http://thepanorama.shear.org/2019/05/13/sea-changes/.
"The Whole World in a Few Syllables," Sky-Hawk: The Journal of the Melville Society of Japan 3 (2015): 21-23.
"Ferguson's Literary History," Co-authored with Sarah Blackwood, Anna Mae Duane, Brigitte Fielder, Glenn Hendler, Yahdon Israel, Peter Jaros, Janet Neary, Caleb Smith, and Jordan Alexander Stein, Avidly, http://avidly.lareviewofbooks.org/2014/08/22/fergusons-literary-history/.
"Melville and Whitman, Digitally Mediated," Leviathan 16:1 (March 2014): 154-156.
"The Greatest American Novel? 9 Experts Share Their Opinions," The Millions (10 July 2013): http://www.themillions.com/2013/07/the-greatest-american-novel-9-experts-share-their-opinions.html.
"Constantius and Pulchera in the Atlantic World," Just Teach One, eds. Duncan Faherty and Ed White, www.common-place.org, http://www.common-place.org/justteachone/?p=144.
The Penn State English Grad Futures initiative provides resources, advice, and workshops on the constellation of possibilities for English grads beyond tenure-line positions. The aim of the English Grad Futures initiative more broadly is to serve as a department-wide space for thinking of new ways to have a writing, teaching, and researching life with a PhD. This initiative is designed for students in all years of the grad program, not just those at the job-seeking stage. Co-founded with Miriam Gonzales, 2021.
A student and faculty collective at Penn State dedicated to thinking and reading together.Co-founded with Miriam Gonzales and Jonathan Eburne, 2016-2017.
