DRAMATIC and LITERARY ANALYSIS
DRAMATIC WRITING
COMPOSITION, RHETORIC and ADVANCED WRITING
THEATRE HISTORY and PERFORMANCE
COURSES I'VE TAUGHT
Dramatic Literature, Adjunct Professor (7 undergraduate courses)
New York Film Academy, Los Angeles
Focus on script analysis for performance, directing and design
Literature and Society, Adjunct Professor (12 undergraduate courses)
New York Film Academy, Los Angeles
Connecting a variety of literary genres to pop culture, politics and film. Taught conventional and non-traditional writing structures including non-linear
Comparative Literature, Adjunct Professor (7 undergraduate courses)
New York Film Academy, Los Angeles
Focus on deconstructing short story fiction and poetry from numerous cultures and eras
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Playwriting and Screenwriting, Graduate MFAs, Adjunct Professor (4 courses)
New York Film Academy, Los Angeles
Comparative analysis of structure in screen and stage writing with a focus on adaptations and writers who wrote in both mediums. Developed activities for students to further explore development of character and conflict.
Dramatic Writing, Guest Lecturer
University of California at Riverside, MFA graduate program
Focused on creating dramatic conflict through character
College Composition, Adjunct Professor (7 courses)
New York Film Academy, Los Angeles
Worked with diverse student population teaching college composition and research writing. Connected course work to popular culture and film
Composition 3 and Honors 3, Adjunct Professor (3 courses; 1 on-line, 2 intern)
Long Beach City College, Long Beach, CA
Taught advanced writing courses to a diverse student population
Fundamentals in Writing, Lecturer (3 semesters)
New York Film Academy, Los Angeles
Worked with international students to provide proficiency in reading and writing
History of Women in Film, Television and Theatre, Associate Professor (4 courses)
New York Film Academy, Los Angeles
Developed curriculum for a new course focused on how film, television and theatre codify gender definitions and how the mediums have been used to support, subvert and rebel against patriarchal trends
History of Theatre, Lecturer (6 courses)
New York Film Academy, Los Angeles
Traditional theater history course for acting and non-acting majors focusing on the historical development of theatre, performance, acting styles, and plays from ancient Greece through contemporary
The Effective Artist (in development)
New York Film Academy, Los Angeles
Included on the curriculum team to develop a new course that examines the impact of the artist on culture and culture on the artist by introducing key theoretical approaches to the study of meaning in all genres of artistic expression.
Introduction to Theatre, (adjunct pool; online certified)
Long Beach City College, Long Beach, CA
Public Speaking, Lecturer (1 course)
New York Film Academy, Los Angeles
Traditionall public speaking course for college freshman