Teaching Syllabi (Instructor of Record)

Ecology, Art, and Empire

Instructor of Record, Fall 2023, upper undergraduate seminar (Art History, cross-listed with the Institute for the Study of Sexuality and Gender)

Looking at a range of visual material from 18th-century maps to contemporary installation art, this course develops a mode of reading visual material “ecologically.” Drawing on feminist and queer methodologies, the course traces how diverse ideologies of race, capitalism, and imperialism shaped constructions of nature in colonial and postcolonial encounters between Europe and Asia, Africa, and the Americas. 

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Art Humanities:
Masterpieces of Western Art

Instructor of Record, Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Summer 2022, Spring 2024

A survey of Western Art through 11 units from the Parthenon to Jean-Michel Basquiat, Art Humanities is a mandatory course for all Columbia undergraduates. My version of the course adds further units about cave art, early cinema, surrealism, ecological art, and contemporary artists who incorporate art history into their practice. Through this course, students are trained in essential visual analysis skills and engage larger themes about globalism, racial/gender identity, and power.

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Past Teaching Experiences (Teaching Fellow)