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Philosophy

The Sphinx asks riddles of all who encounter it. The questions seem simple, self-evident, yet they are profoundly difficult to answer. What is freedom? What is truth? What is justice? What is human? What is power? What is history? What is race? What is the good life? What is beautiful? What is violence? Such deceptively simple questions are the very basis of humanistic inquiry, of self-discovery, and of moral imagination. To ask these questions is our first step towards constructing a history of our present, and towards otherwise possible worlds in our futures. For this reason, as a teacher, I begin by clarifying: I am not looking for correct answers; rather, I am listening for great questions.

Classes

Other Ways of Seeing
(Minneapolis College of Art and Design; 2024, 2026)


Graduate seminar introducing first year MFAs to methods and concepts relating to visual studies and media theory. Includes foundational texts (Benjamin, Berger, Fanon, Mulvey) and contemporary authors (Steyrl, Crary, Russell, Ahmed), creating a lineage of articulations and interventions into the field of visuality.

Experimental Sound
(Minneapolis College of Art and Design; 2026)


Undergraduate ‘laboratory’ introducing concepts and creative practices that explore both the tangible properties of sound and the aesthetic practices of composition and sound art. Students complete a series of ‘experiments’ focused on physically producing and manipulating sounds outside of the computer. Lectures, readings, listenings, and viewings introduce students to 20th century sound art, experimental and improvised music, graphic scores, noise, and dis/ability-informed theories of sound.

Race and Ethnicity in America: A History

(Minneapolis College of Art and Design; 2025)

Undergraduate lecture course examining how we tell the story of America through a critical analysis of race and ethnicity. Using a comparative and relational approach to race, this class maps a chronology of racial construction across intersecting migrations of people, knowledge, technology, and culture. Rather than focusing on singular events or persons of historical note, students examine this process through themes: race, history, discovery, settlers, plantations, freedom, property, conspiracy, maps, bodies, aliens, ethnics, and ecology.

What is the Witch?: Modernity, Subjectivity & Terror 
(University of California Santa Cruz; 2020, 2022, 2023)


Undergraduate lecture course examining the social and cultural history of “the Witch.” This course introduces key concepts and theories in cultural studies, political theory, critical race and ethnic studies, feminist and queer theory. Materials discussed include primary documents, historical, anthropological, philosophical, religious and theoretical texts, poetry, visual art, theater, film and popular culture.

Radical Political Theory
(University of California Santa Cruz; 2022)


Undergraduate seminar examining contemporary political theory through a close critical reading of recent radical publishing. Recent topics include art and the Anthropocene; Black anarchism and abolition; socialist feminism and theories of care; and queer-of-color media theory.

War & the Media: The Soundscape of Violence 

“(University of California Santa Cruz; 2021)


Undergraduate lecture course examining how we tell the story of American warfare through a critical analysis of media. Historical materials covered international wars involving the United States and the nation’s long history of domestic conflicts, from early colonial war through contemporary policing and the “war on terror”. In addition to introducing students to theoretical issues concerning the history of war, this class provides an introduction to media theory with a special attention to sound, audio culture, and sonic warfare. 

Interdisciplinary Composition and Collaboration
(Simon Fraser University, Spring 2014)


Combined studio and lecture course exploring techniques for collaborative, interdisciplinary composition across dance, theater, film, music, and visual arts.

Teaching Experience

INSTRUCTOR of RECORD

Minneapolis College of Art and Design (2024-present)

Master of Fine Arts in Visual Studies
GRLA 05 Critique Seminar 1 (2025)     
GRLA 02 Criticism and Theory 1 (2024)     
GRLA 0102 Graduation Prep 1 & 2 (2024-2026)

Media Arts Department     
MA 3068 Experimental Sound (2026)

Liberal Arts Department
HU 4630 Race & Ethnicity in America: A History (2025)

University of California Santa Cruz (2020-2023)

History of Consciousness Department     
HISC 80T What is the Witch?: Modernity, Subjectivity & Terror (2020, 2022, 2023)     
HISC 150 Radical Political Theory (2022)
HISC 80E War and the Media: The Soundscape of Violence (2021)

Simon Fraser University (2015)

School for the Contemporary Arts
FPA 285 Interdisciplinary Collaboration and Composition (2015)

TEACHING ASSISTANT

University of California Santa Cruz (2018-2023)

History of Consciousness Department
HISC 80 What is Resistance?; Instructor: Banu Bargu (2020)
HISC 1 Introduction to the History of Consciousness; Instructor: Robert Meister (2017)

Philosophy Department
PHIL 1 Introduction to Philosophy; Instructor: Denise Dinishak (2020)

Art Department
ART 10E 3D Foundation; Instructor: Dee Hibbert Jones (2018)

Sociology Department
SOCY 185B Introduction to Social Theory; Instructor: Lindsay Dillon (2018)

Emily Carr University of Art + Design (2014)

Art History
AHIS 333 Interdisciplinary Forums: Making It; Instructor: Allison Collins (2014)

Simon Fraser University (2011-2012)

School for the Contemporary Arts
FPA 314 Readings in The History of Arts and Culture Studies: Artists and the Institution; Instructor: Mariane Bourcheix-Laporte (2012)
FPA 137 The History and Aesthetics of Cinema II: 1945-Present; Instructor: Christopher Pavsek (2012)
FPA 111 Issues in Fine and Performing Arts; Instructor: Dr. Laura U. Marks (2011)

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