Mini-Syllabus

In the spirit of my new collection The Passion of Woo & Isolde (Rose Metal Press, 2017), I’m sharing material from my “Writing the Forbidden” class, of which I teach…

If you’re 16 or over, the only thing stopping you from changing your middle name to “Danger” is the court filing fee ($435 in California). But wait, not so fast!…

Level: Beginner to Intermediate (which translates to having watched 1-3 Kdramas)   Perhaps you recently fell in love with Kdrams through “Secret Garden” or you watched “A Jewel in the…

Solarpunk, the genre of ecocritics and Tumblr bloggers alike, hovers awkwardly at the edge of book parties, occasionally clearing its throat when someone mentions “climate change” or the increasing chance…

Instead of life being a skywards trajectory of never-ending joy, romantic disappointment and emotional upheaval often overrule. Undeniable passion, fluttering heartstrings and a piercing connection are not always equated with…

This course fulfills post-colonial literature, Asian American Literature, Cultural Studies, and Literary Studies credits. Course Description When scholars and anthologists of the South Asian diaspora consider South Asian diasporic cultural…

In desperate times, often, desperate measures are taken, or so the hackneyed phrase goes. Out of complete and utter desperation individuals are forced to make decisions and take actions that…

Great stories are all well and good, but there are some that are so perfectly written that they are actually able to teach more to their readers about the craft…

In the summer of 2015, I taught a week-long course for Naropa’s Summer Writing Program titled The List as Literature: the art & practice of accumulative enumeration. The course description…

Image Credit: “Portrait 03” [2016] by Alaa Awad   This course examines the unheard voices of those who go unnoticed, those who are scrutinized, judged, generalized, and spoken for, those…

Image via The Atlantic Course Description: Aggravating, relatable, funny, prescient– wherever you look on the Internet, memes are there.  In this course, we will explore the interstices, overlaps, and connections…

This course will examine how European civilization wrecked itself in the wars of the 20th century and left in its wake a world transformed into what may at times appear…

“Everyone is a fan of something.” The concepts of “the fan,” “the amateur” and the “self-published writer” have often been denigrated and ridiculed in popular culture and the media. However,…

Course Description: Because I did my BA in Literature in the 90’s –under a very strong, sad, unbelievable patriarchal and short-circuited faculty I did not have a chance to read…