Précis The following project is the most student-centered assignment I created during my undergraduate studies, as students were required to construct their own assignment description and rubric, which we then used to complete our projects. Students posted their assignment ideas to a Canvas discussion board so that peers could form a group and then work … Continue reading Steel, Strings, and Other Supplies for Reconstruction: Poems →

Précis For 1980s Literature and History, we students were instructed to create a game using Twine as a platform. This project was one of the most innovative, unconventional assignments I completed during my undergraduate studies and included research, extensive peer and instructor feedback, and multiple rounds of revision. Although the final product is an online … Continue reading The Maze: An Examination of Dreams, Memory, and Consciousness →

Précis In Women’s Literature, my classmates and I read multiple texts that crossed and blurred genres, including Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictee and Gertrude Stein’s Tender Buttons. Similar to my project, “Conscious Beasts: Poems,” I created a project in my chosen genre, this time blending poetry, prose, and visual images. My project developed in an … Continue reading Hybrid Forms: Gender and Genre →

 Précis “Conscious Beasts” is the product of the genre project briefly discussed in the critical introduction. This project required students to analyze texts from class using any genre they preferred. Before beginning the project, though, students were required to submit a “genre statement” in which they stated their preferred genre, why they chose it, which … Continue reading Conscious Beasts: Poems →

Précis One of the less common, but highly engaging, forms I have written in is the lecture. In Advanced Poetry Writing, the graduate students in the course were required to create their own assignment, and one of them instructed us to write a lecture based on two models: Mary Ruefle’s “Lectures I Will Never Give” … Continue reading Writing a Lecture as a Student →

Précis Unlike the other projects in this portfolio, which resulted from more creative assignment descriptions, “The Many Faces of Evil” is the product of an academic essay assignment. The assignment requirements were to write a five-page research paper answering the question, “What is evil?” with a minimum of five sources. During that academic quarter, I … Continue reading The Many Faces of Evil: A Series of Poems →