Teaching by AHS

AHS giving a guest lecture at Princeton University in 2003. Drawing by Mira Blake.

    GRADUATE COURSES TAUGHT FOR SIGNUM UNIVERSITY, 2012-Present

  • Dark Academia
  • Exploring Star Trek
  • The Meaning of Star Wars
  • The Force of Star Wars: Examining the Epic
  • The Gothic Tradition
  • Sherlock, Science, and Ratiocination
  • The Dystopian Tradition
  • Science Fiction, Part 1: From Modern Beginnings to the Golden Age
  • Science Fiction, Part 2: From the New Wave through Today
  • “Literary Copernicus”: The Cosmic Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft
  • Taking Harry Seriously: The Artistry and Meanings of the Harry Potter Saga

    ADULT CONTINUING EDUCATION COURSES TAUGHT FOR SIGNUM UNIVERSITY’S SPACE PROGRAM, 2023-Present

  • Meet Mary Shelley’s The Last Man
  • Haunting Tales: The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
  • Haunting Tales: A Haunting on the Hill by Elizabeth Hand
  • The Hunger Games Series (Trilogy and Prequels) by Suzanne Collins
  • “Rebellions Are Built On Hope”: A Star Wars Series (Including Andor, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, and Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
  • Hangsaman by Shirley Jackson: Exploring a Gothic Campus Mystery
  • Last Seen Wearing by Hillary Waugh: Discovering a Turning Point in Crime Fiction
  • The Secret History by Donna Tartt: Unpacking the “Whydunit” Mystery

    UNDERGRADUATE COURSES TAUGHT FOR LENOIR-RHYNE UNIVERSITY, 2010-2023

  • The Force of Star Wars: Examining the Epic
  • Mad Science and Monsters
  • J.R.R. Tolkien: Hobbits, History, and Heroism
  • The Native American Experience
  • The Dystopian Tradition
  • U.S. Exceptionalism: The American and the Frontier
  • Harry Potter and His Predecessors
  • Native American Myth, Film, and Fiction
  • 100 Years of Literature about Single-Gender Worlds

    UNDERGRADUATE COURSES TAUGHT FOR BEREA COLLEGE, 2019, 2021

  • Science Fiction
  • Identity and Diversity: Indigeneity, Appalachia, and Activism

    UNDERGRADUATE COURSES TAUGHT FOR BELMONT UNIVERSITY, 2002-2011, 2016-2018

  • The Force of Star Wars: Examining the Epic
  • The History of the Future: A Century through Science Fiction
  • U.S. Exceptionalism: The American and the Frontier
  • Native American Identity in the U.S. Context
  • Native American Fiction and Film
  • The Trail of Tears
  • History and the Gothic Imagination
  • J.R.R. Tolkien in History, Political Thought, and Literature
  • Harry Potter and His Predecessors
  • Worlds Gone Wrong: The Dystopian Tradition
  • A Century of Literature about Single-Gender Worlds
  • Fan Participation in Media and Culture
  • First-Year Seminar: Knowing Today by Imagining Tomorrow

    UNDERGRADUATE COURSES TAUGHT FOR VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY, 1995-1997

  • Introduction to U.S. History, Part I
  • Introduction to U.S. History, Part II
  • Introduction to Western Civilization, Part I

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