Teaching Experience

31 different courses at 9 institutions

Duke University, Writing Program

The Dialog Laboratory: Experiments in Group Communication

Academic Writing: Attending to Attention – The Secret Method of the Liberal Arts [first-year writing, theme-based]

New York University (via NYU Shanghai), Writing Program

Writing as Inquiry [first-year writing, theme-based]

Perspectives on the Humanities: Attending to Attention – The Secret Method of the Liberal Arts [second-year writing, theme-based]

United Nations World Food Programme in partnership with American University of Beirut’s Center for Civic Engagement

Faculty & Curriculum Advisor of English Language, Digital Skills Training Program

American University of Beirut, Department of English

Rhetorical Theory for the Literature and Linguistics Disciplines (Graduate)

Theories and Practices of Attention (Graduate/Undergraduate)

Writing in the Disciplines (Graduate)

Advanced Academic Writing for English Majors [WID course]

Academic Research Writing [second-year writing, research-based]

Critical Reading and Writing [first-year writing, textual response-based]

MA Thesis committee member in English Literature

In the Direction of Thick Dust: Navigating Humanism and Posthumanism in Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

The Death of the Subject in Postmodern Media

Flight and Fancy: Astral Travel in Cavendish and Milton

MA Thesis committee member in English Language/Linguistics

Racist Discourse in Lebanon: Kafala System, Laws, and Facebook's Lebanese Madam Facebook Group

Perceptions of Faculty in the Communication Skills Program at the American University of Beirut of Online Learning during Covid-19

American University in Dubai, College of Arts and Sciences

Public Speaking for English Second Language

Public Speaking for English Second Language: 6 Week Intensive 

Middlebury College

Influence: The Art & Practice 

Stanford University, Graduate School of Business

Leading Your Life, Lead TA of 11 TAs (remote)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Science, Technology and Society

Designing Your Life, TA for Intersession Course

University of Pittsburgh, College of General Studies

Media and Consumer Culture

Television and Society: Issues of the Public Sphere and Private Life 

Television and Society: Modes of Criticism

University of Pittsburgh, Department of Communication

Public Speaking: Monolog as Dialog 

Public Speaking: Lies, Distortion, and Bullshit

Argument: Theory and Workshop

Rhetorical Process (Intro to Rhetoric): Textual Analysis and Performativity

Rhetorical Process (Intro to Rhetoric): Theory and Public Performance, TA for 4 course sections               

Rhetorical Process (Intro to Rhetoric): Rhetorical Logic and Argument, TA for 4 course sections                 

Communication Process (Intro to Communication Theory): Communication as Culture, TA for 8 course sections

Special Topics in Communication: Theories of Attention in Rhetoric and Media

Discussion: Group Communication Laboratory

Interpersonal Communication: Praxis

Mass Communication Process (Intro to Media Studies): How the Internet Works and Why It Matters

Mass Communication Process (Intro to Media Studies): Media Effects and Public Culture

Mass Communication Process (Intro to Media Studies): History of Media Technology, Law, and Institutions, TA for 4 course sections

Mass Communication Process (Intro to Media Studies): Media Culture, TA for 4 course sections

Advised 3 independent studies for undergraduate internships with WTAE Television, Maniac Magazine, and Pittsburgh Sheriff's Department

University of California at Santa Barbara, Writing Program

Grammar and Stylistics: Structures of Style, undergraduate teaching assistant

Rhetoric and Writing: Criticism of Written Argument, undergraduate teaching assistant