- Developmental Reading and Writing (English 96) and First-Year Composition (English 101 and 101-097)
- Children's Literature (Lit 130) and Literature and Film (Lit 155)
- Connecting movies, popular culture, history, politics, and government to critical thinking, reading, and writing
- Children's development, specifically that of twin 7-year-olds, a boy and a girl who refuse to stop growing up
- Fangirling over Star Wars and The Avengers (especially Chris Evans's Captain America)