COURSES TAUGHT
Classical Drama & Cross-Cultural Adaptation
Cilker School of Art & Design, Taught Fall 2018
Introduction to Theater
Cilker School of Art & Design, Taught Spring 2018
University of Minnesota, Taught Fall 2012 & Spring 2013
Introduction to Dance Studies
University of Minnesota, Taught Fall 2016
Dance History I: World Dance
University of Minnesota, Assistant Teacher Fall 2011
Dance History II: Dance on the Western Concert Stage
University of Minnesota, Assistant Teacher Spring 2012
Theater History: Enlightenment to the Present
University of Minnesota, Assistant Teacher Spring 2011
Strategic Interpretation: Arab-American Encounter in Drama
University of Minnesota, Assistant Teacher Fall 2014
History & Dramatic Criticism
Performing the Self: Theories and Techniques
University of Minnesota, Taught Spring 2015
What does it mean to stage "a life’”? Who and what defines notions of individuality, autonomy, and rationality? This course looks at the construction of the “Self” in media and performance art in the latter half of the 20th century, with focus on different camps of theory: feminist, queer, postcolonial, postmodern and liberal. Includes performance component; culminates in performance showcase.
Migrations of Gesture: The Embodiment of Citizenship
Cilker School of Art & Design, 2019
Multicultural perspectives and Methods course. Students learn to read bodies as social-historical texts to analyze how the body participates in, and adapts to, social and political processes such as water disputes, labor distribution, political asylum/refugee status and dislocation.
Performance and Media Studies
Acting for Film & TV
Cilker School of Art & Design, Taught Fall 2018
Beginning Acting
Cilker School of Art & Design, Taught Spring 2018
Acting for Non-Majors
University of Minnesota, Taught Fall 2016
Acting Courses
Supervisor, Senior Seminar Projects
University of Minnesota, Theater & Dance, 2011-2012
Workshop Leader: Understanding Technique in Migration
University of Minnesota, Course on Dance & Citizenship, Mar. 10, 2012 & Sept. 24, 2015
Workshop Leader: Writing the Body for Tourism
University of Minnesota, Course on Dance and Global Tourism, Feb. 14, 2013