Teaching

*syllabi available upon request

Lecturer

University of Chicago

“Creative Ecologies: Environmental and Multispecies Storytelling,” course independently designed. Cross-listed with Comparative Literature and Environmental Studies (Fall 2021).

“Literature as Resistance: Reclaiming Italian Margins,” course independently designed. Cross-lists: the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies (Spring 2021).

“Food and Culture in Italian Literature,” course independently designed (Spring 2021).

“Greece and Rome: Texts, Traditions, and Transformations I and II” Humanities Core Course, (Fall 2020, Winter 2021, Fall 2021, Winter 2022).

“Reading Nonhuman Animals: A Challenge to Anthropocentrism,” course independently designed. Cross-lists: Comparative Literature and the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality (Winter 2019).

School of the Art Institute of Chicago

“Beyond Speciesism: The Human-Animal Bond in Contemporary Society,” course independently designed (Spring 2020 and 2022).

Guest Lectures

“Crossing Animal Borders: Animal Issues in the Italian and International Debate,” Indiana University Bloomington (November 2018).

“Environmental Ethics and Intersectionality,” Montana State University (March 2018).