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

        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

    • Mastodon