“Theory Zines”

I design and teach a broad variety of writing, literature, and interdisciplinary humanities courses at Mount Saint Mary’s University, Los Angeles.

Recent examples of my courses include first-year writing courses on the themes “Writing/Making,” and “Creativity and Ethics;” “The Graphic Novel in Literature,” “Book History: From Manuscript to Digital,” and a course in development called “Rewriting the Body: Disability and Illness in Literature” that examines disability poetics through the intersecting lenses of ability, race, gender, and sexuality.

My pedagogy works to disrupt structural dehumanization through three interrelated central pillars – critical-creative making, access, and justice. In all of my courses, I center diverse voices and storytelling as agency.

I have a short piece on my Makerspace pedagogy assignment “Handmade Metaphors” on the scholarly insta-zine Filter in 2025 – here is a sneak peek: