At NYU, I have taught introductory and upper-level courses that engage with labor, sexuality, feeling, and the rise of the novel. In each of these courses, I prepare students to think critically across genres and historical time periods. Semesters often culminate in multimodal projects that invite students to draw on digitized archives, reimagine course texts, and reflect on their affective experiences as readers. Given my commitment to student mentorship, I am especially honored to have been awarded an NYU Outstanding Teaching Award.
Below, you will find syllabi for two of my courses:
The first, “Catching Feelings: Collecting Emotion and Experience,” introduces students to the expanding field of affect theory. In the course, we consider how our emotional responses shape and are shaped by the power structures, environments, and communities that surround us.
The second, “Literatures of the British Isles and British Empire, 1660-1900,” offers a brisk tour of the literary landscape of the British Isles and British Empire. In addition to tracing the rise of the novel, the course attends to gender, sexuality, European imperialism, and narrative structure (the relationship between testimony, novel, and narrative ‘truth’).
Corey Risinger 