Teaching & Public Education

“Science Fiction & Society” is inspired by our contemporary, dystopian present. Available to the public online, this class is for writers, readers, and teachers who want an in-depth study of the genre. The summer edition will be held in July and August, hosted by We Are Urban Haiku. Learn more about the class and registration here.

In the summer of 2024, I taught “Speculative Fiction, Society, and Media” for high schoolers in the Meridian Freedom Project Network Program in Mississippi. We learned about the power of myths and monsters, read and watched movies about time travel and superheroes, and performed a dramatic interpretation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Learn more about Freedom Summer Collegiate here.

My “Introduction to African American Literature” class features texts across genre: short fiction by Charles Chesnutt and N.K. Jemisin; poetry by Essex Hemphill and Lucille Clifton; music by Ma Rainey, Lil Nas X, and Nina Simone; visual art by Augusta Savage, Kara Walker, and Jean-Michel Basquiat; novels by Zora Neale Hurston, Octavia E. Butler, Toni Morrison, and Jesmyn Ward.