Department:
Global Studies, Foreign Languages and Literature
Degrees:
Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University
Why I like to teach honors courses:
I like teaching HON courses because the students are interested and interesting; they respond well to creative topics and approaches. One of the advantages that students have taking these courses is the fact that professors become creative learners along with them in class—I love teaching students who are willing to go on creative journeys in a single course that may take us on a Grail search from 13th century German literature to Monty Python and even the Renaissance Festival in Huntersville, NC. We all have fun learning from one another! I have a variety of diverse but related teaching and scholarship areas. I have two areas of training: one is German language, literature and culture. The other is medieval studies and Arthurian romance. I have taught courses in Honors on Fairy Tales, sagas and fantasy, Arthurian Legends, and Fin de siecle Vienna. I have been the second reader on several honors theses, notably in collaboration with the School of Music.
Emeritus:
No