“As a classroom community, our capacity to generate excitement is deeply affected by our interest in one another, in hearing one another’s voices, in recognizing one another’s presence.”
― bell hooks, Teaching To Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
University of California, Berkeley || Berkeley, CA
As Lead Instructor– French Culture *Syllabi available upon request.
(Spring 2025) “Living to be seen”: Screened lives, privacy, and the modern youth age, In-Person. Lead Instructor & Designer.
(Spring 2024) “Sell out!”: Hip Hop, capitalism, and arts of resistance, In-Person. Lead Instructor & Designer.
(Fall 2023) “Beauty Secrets”: Contemporary codes of beauty and belonging, In-Person. Lead Instructor & Designer.
(Fall 2022) “Noir et fier de l'être” : Celebrating Black Lives in the Francophone World, In-Person. Lead Instructor & Designer.
As Lead Instructor– Language
(Summer 2023) Accelerated French 1 (Immersion), In-Person. Lead Graduate Instructor for Berkeley in Paris.
(Summer 2022) Accelerated French 3, In-Person. Lead Instructor & Designer.
(Spring 2022) French 3, In-Person. Lead Instructor.
(Fall 2021) French 2, In-Person. Lead Instructor.
(Spring 2021) French 2, Online. Lead Instructor.
(Fall 2020) French 1, Online. Lead Instructor.
As Reader or Assistant
(Fall 2022) Black Film and Visual Culture (Film Aesthetics). Reader.
(Spring 2022) Seed: Monstrosity, Horror, and Sex in Children’s Literature. Reader.
(Fall 2021) Cultures of Franco-America. Reader.
(Summer 2021) Entertainment Law. Teaching Assistant.
(Spring 2021) Film Composition Course: Media, Power, & Resistance. Reader.
(Selections) As Project Advisor
(2023) Undergraduate Research Conference Organizer and Moderator. “Francophone subjects, new conversations: an interdisciplinary undergraduate conference.”
Guest Lectures
(2023) “Screening ‘Bande de Filles’ and revisiting the Girls’ Banlieue.” Undergraduate guest lecture for FR80, The Cultural History of Paris.
(2023) “Net language, youth language.” Undergraduate guest lecture for FRc26, Introduction to Romance Languages and Linguistics.
(2023) “Breakin’ the Olympiad–Paris’ Hip Hop Landscape.” Undergraduate guest lecture for FR43A, Aspects of French Culture.
(2023) “How to teach ‘la voile’: France, the Middle East, and Global Perspectives after 2022.” Graduate seminar speaker for Upper-Division Language Pedagogy.
(2022) “Reading de Beauvoir in 2022, from TikTok to Ketanji Brown Jackson.” Undergraduate guest lecture for FR140, Bodies, Affects, Gender, and Aesthetics.
(2022) “Wesh, bien ou quoi ?: The diachronic lives of subversion, race, and the ‘langue des jeunes.’” Undergraduate guest lecture for FRc26, Introduction to Romance
Languages and Linguistics.
(2022) “C’est ouf ça ! Une courte introduction aux banlieues.” Undergraduate guest lecture for FR35, Practical Phonetics and Listening Comprehension.
(2021) “Reading Law, Literature, and Tragedy: Antigone in the Migrant Crisis.” Graduate seminar student lecture for Berkeley-Mellon Law And Humanities Colloquium.
Remote (COV-19).
Fisk University || Nashville, TN
As Lead Instructor–Culture *Syllabi available upon request.
(Fall 2024) Hip Hop Culture in the Francophone World: Film, TV, and Music from the 1980s to the Present, Online. Lead Instructor & Designer.
(Fall 2023) French and Francophone Film: On Blackness and Being, Online. Lead Instructor & Designer.
As Lead Instructor–Language
(Spring 2025) French 2 & 3, Online, asynchronous. Lead Instructor.
(Fall 2024) French 1 & 2, Online, asynchronous. Lead Instructor.
(Spring 2024) French 1 & 2, Online, asynchronous. Lead Instructor.
(Fall 2023) French 1 & 3, Online, asynchronous. Lead Instructor.
Other Pedagogy Projects
“Franchement, je déteste lire!” (Click!)
Did we meet at the MLA in 2023? If so, those materials are here.
“In Search of Accessible Interfaces.“ (Powerpoint | PDF)
The project I undertook for my certificate in UDL (Universal Design for Learning).
“On Teaching Blackness Where Blackness Doesn’t Exist.“ (Powerpoint)
A presentation on my upper-division seminar, Celebrating Black Lives in the Francophone World.