Education Specialist

• Campus Phone: 612-624-6507
• E-mail: alexa032@tc.umn.edu
• Office: University Office Plaza Suite 400, Room 409

Education

• B.S. Mankato State University, Political Science and Journalism
• M.A. Mankato State University, Women's Studies
• M.A. Mankato State University, English
• Ph.D. University of Iowa, American Studies

In general, I work as a teaching consultant. I meet with teachers for one-to-one observations and conversations, organize the Center's yearlong Teaching Enrichment Series, address concerns raised by an advisory council of teaching assistants, and develop customized workshops for on-campus departments or groups of teachers

I coordinate the TA Liaison Council that advises the Center on its activities (and hope to draw adjuncts into this conversation) and am working with the library's user education coordinator on a host of interesting teaching and learning projects. As a consultant, I draw on a wide-ranging teaching background. I've taught at a community college, a private liberal arts university, a mid-sized regional university, and two research universities. The two common elements in each of these assignments has been teaching writing and cultural diversity intensive courses.

Beyond teaching writing courses, I have also taught classes focusing on American literature, on women's autobiography/creative nonfiction, and on the history of US civil rights activism; I've offered courses in departments of English, Women's Studies, American Studies, and Sexuality Studies. While I've taught classes big and small, graduate seminars and undergraduate discussion sections, my favorite teaching assignments are classes with first year students.