Educator.
I teach writing across genres and disciplines at Columbia University and Bard College. My pedagogical areas of focus include essay writing, creative nonfiction, legal writing, journalism, and hybrid-form writing.
Academic appointments and fellowships.
Current appointments: Lecturer in the Discipline of English and Comparative Literature, Undergraduate Writing Program, Columbia University; Summer Faculty, The Language and Thinking Program, Bard College; Writing Assessment Specialist, OnRamps Program, The University of Texas at Austin.
Past appointments: Adjunct Assistant Professor, Nonfiction Workshop (Spring 2024), Columbia Undergraduate Creative Writing Program; Teaching Fellow Instructor, University Writing: Contemporary Essays (Summer 2023 & Fall 2023) and University Writing: Readings in Law & Justice (Fall 2022 & Spring 2023), Columbia Undergraduate Writing Program; Creative Writing Workshop: Creative Nonfiction & Journalism (Summer 2022), Columbia School of the Arts; Moot Court Legal Briefcraft and Advocacy, Columbia Law School; Social Justice & Queer Rights, Legal Beagle.
Pedagogical scholarship.
Research articles: “Workshopping Failure Pedagogy for Creative Writing Studies,” in New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing (2022); “Writing and Teaching the Polemic,” in Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies (2022); “Hong’s Minor Feelings: Major Reckonings on the Asian-American Identitarian Writer,” Journal of Creative Writing Studies (2023). Blog articles: Workshopping the Workshop (2021).
