At Stanford, I teach writing courses in the Program in Writing and Rhetoric. I also tutor undergraduate and graduate students in the Hume Center for Writing and Speaking.

My PWR 1 course, “Food Values: The Rhetoric of What and How We Eat,” prompts students to consider how the multiple ways that what we eat expresses what we value.

My PWR 2 course, “In the Moment: The Rhetoric of Time,” invites students to consider how to make timely arguments, capture the audience’s attention, and how to defeat procrastination in the process.

In both courses, students develop their writing skills by undertaking an original research project on the topic of their choice. Students selecting a particular person, group, or subculture, whose rhetoric or perspective interests them. The task is to investigate this social world and analyze rhetoric that has been overlooked by other scholars.

I also teach an advanced PWR course, PWR 91HK, “Farmer, Scientist, Activist, Chef: Communicating for Food Security and Food Justice.” This is a project-based course where students work with a community partner to create public-facing materials in support of their mission.