Syllabi and Materials

Courses I have taught

• Erzählanfänge: Problems with Beginning and Beginning with Problems (UG). Self-designed course for 3rd/4th year of German curriculum. For sample assignments and more on this course, click here.
• Thinking Tragedy: Nietzsche's Geburt der Tragödie (UG)
• Deutsche Märchen: German through Fairy-Tales, self-designed course for 2nd year of German language sequence.
• Elementary German for Beginners, I-III, full first-year German language sequence.
• Intensive German for Beginners, I-II, 6 week intensive summer language course.

Courses I would like to teach

I am prepared (and excited!) to create and teach undergraduate courses meeting standardized departmental requirements in late 18th- to early 20th-century German film, literature and thought (Goethezeit , the novella, Weimar-era, lyric, Nietzsche/Marx/Freud) as well as graduate methods and theory courses.

However, I also keep a running list of more experimental course ideas (graduate, undergraduate, and mixed), which range from completed syllabi to rough ideas and constellations of individual works. These are meant to serve as a personal archive / aide-memoire, an intellectual tool (for producing new constellations among familiar works), and a means for responding in conversation and thought to contemporary concerns.

• What's Missing When I Say I Miss You? Love, Lack, Language (UG/G)
• The Sense of Unending: Reading and Time in Kafka and Kleist (G)
• Anxiety, Uncertainty, and Other Life-Altering Affects (UG)
• Killjoys: On the Affective Turn (G)
• Critique and Crisis: On The History of History with Reinhart Koselleck and Hannah Arendt (UG/G)
• On Being Born And Having To Die: Arendt and Heidegger (UG)
• Making It Contingent: On Method (G)