Teaching

Teaching well is a skill that takes practice and patience. I aim to meet my students where they’re at, and listen attentively to their needs. 

Courses taught as instructor of record

 

Undergraduate level
  • Happiness and Wellbeing (OK State)
  • Introduction to Philosophy (OK State, UNC)
  • Philosophy in the Age of Enlightenment, a.k.a. Modern Philosophy (OK State) 
  • The Philosophy and Cognitive Science of Consciousness (Yale)  
  • Ethics of the Internet: Data, Algorithms, Society (Yale)  
  • Life Worth Living: Religious and Philosophical Approaches to the Good Life (Yale)  
  • Gender and Society: Introduction to Feminist Philosophy (UNC)

 

Graduate level
  • History of Analytic Philosophy (OK State)
  • Neurodiversity and Cognitive Disability (OK State)  

 

 

Leadership in Pedagogy

I have published papers on teaching philosophy, and have designed an led several pedagogy workshops. 

 

Scholarship of teaching and learning

“Graduate Supervision: A Manifesto for Backward Design”. With Christopher Blake-Turner. Forthcoming. AAPT Studies in Pedagogy.

Backward design is often touted as best practice in higher education. In this paper, we maintain that graduate supervisors can—and should—be backward designing graduate-level supervision, just as we backward design our undergraduate classes.

“Learning to Fail”. With Christopher Blake-Turner. 2025. In Innovations in Teaching Philosophy. Brynn Welch (ed.), Bloomsbury.

Failure is part of learning. Why are we, as teachers, so afraid of it? In this piece, we engage in reflections on the nature of failure, the necessity of failure, and the ways that we might be able to model failure in the classroom. 

Pedagogy workshops

During my time as a Graduate Teaching Fellow at Yale’s Center for Teaching and Learning, I designed and led the following pedagogy workshops.

  • Fundamentals of Teaching in the Humanities (four-part series)
  • How We Learn: the Science of Pedagogy (two-part series)
  • Using Technology for Feedback (advanced teaching workshop)
  • Teaching First-Generation and Non-Traditional Students (advanced teaching workshop)
  • Course Design (advanced teaching workshop)