As a teacher of English language literature, my goal is to help students develop lifelong, enriching relationships with the written word. My pedagogy focuses on asking questions: asking questions of books as we read, and of one another in the classroom. I give my students the historical and methodological contexts to ask richer questions of the texts they encounter, but above all I make space for their own curiosities to guide our discussions.
I have experience teaching large survey courses, intimate seminars, and Oxford-style tutorials on a range of subjects. Topics include:
- Historical surveys of English literature
- Myth and modern literature
- Postcolonial literature
- Multimedia writing and rhetoric
- The American novel post-1945
In addition, I am always eager to teach on subjects related to:
- Global modernism
- English-language poetry and poetics
- Religion and literature (including religious poetry and Christianity and fantasy)
- The epic
- World War I literature
Sarah E. Coogan 