“Tout est construit” –Gaston Bachelard (La formation de l’esprit scientifique, 1934)
I teach graduate and undergraduate courses in the Department of English in modernism, 20th-century studies, literary and cultural theory, and historical surveys of Anglophone literature. I have longstanding interests in active learning methods, research-supported best practices and effective instructional technologies. My undergraduate students have called me “a great instructor,” “very knowledgeable,” “energetic,” “approachable,” and said my courses have “great content” and are “thought provoking.” My teaching is built on a commitment to educational equity that provides a diverse body of university students with a climate of high expectation and useful scaffolding, asking students to take creativity-enhancing intellectual risks in response to challenging assignments. I welcome graduate projects in modernism, understood broadly, twentieth-century Anglophone literatures, postcolonial, cultural, and material studies, intersectional work in feminism, gender, race, and sexuality, and media and technology studies.
2022-2023
Term 1: Study Leave
Term 2:
English 300 Introduction to Critical Theory
MWF 2:00-3:00 pm Syllabus ENGL 300 2W2022
ENGL 539 Studies in the Twentieth Century: Exilic Modernisms
M 9:30am- 12:30pm Syllabus-ENGL-539-2W2022
2021-2022
ENGL 211-001 Seminar for English Honours: Introduction to Literary and Critical Theory ENGL 211 syllabus 2W2021
ENGL 365-99C Modernist Literature Syllabus 365 99C 2W2022
2020-2021
ENGL 365-001 Modernist Literature: Modernist Movements syllabus 365 001 1W2020
ENGL 539 Studies in the Twentieth Century: Modernism and the Minor syllabus 539B 002 1W2020
ENGL 211-001 Seminar for English Honours: Introduction to Literary and Critical Theory syllabus ENGL 211 001 2W2020 Paltin
ENGL 377-001 World Literature and Social Movements: Democracy in the Writerly Imagination syllabus 377 2W2020
2019-2020
ENGL 110 Approaches to Literature: Speculative Societies and Possible Worlds: syllabus 110 1W2019
ENGL 224 World Literature in English: Near and Far: syllabus 224 1W2019
ENGL 365 Modernist Literature: Modernist Movements: syllabus 365 001 2W2019
ENGL 491C Senior Honours Seminar Lit: Books and Friendship: syllabus 491H 003 2W2019
2018-2019
ENGL 100: Fantasy, Satire, and Play: Syllabus 100-005 1W2018
ENGL 365: Aesthetic Modernism: ENGL 365 1W2018 syllabus
ENGL 224: World Literature in English: Near and Far: Syllabus 224-005 2W2018
ENGL 539: Studies in the Twentieth Century: Figuring Modernism (Graduate-level seminar): ENGL 539A-001 2W2018 syllabus
2017-2018
ENGL 561-921 – Topics in Science and Technology – Assemblage and Other Fluid Materialisms (graduate-level seminar): ENGL561A1S2017Syllabus.docx
ENGL 100-001 Reading and Writing about Literature: Books and Friendship: Syllabus 100-001
ENGL 224-002 World Literature in English: World-Breaking Literature: Syllabus 224-002
ENGL 464A-001 Twentieth-Century Studies: Modernism and the Political Novel: Syllabus 464 1W2017
2016-2017
ENGL 464. Women’s Writing and Media: From Fordism to Cyber-culture: 464 syllabus
ENGL 100. MakerSpaces: Literature and Transformation: 100 Syllabus
ENGL 491. New Masses: Modernism and the Crowd: ENGL 491 Syllabus
ENGL 221-011. English Literature from the Eighteenth Century to the Present: ENGL 221 Syllabus
2015-2016
ENGL 221 (English Literature from the Eighteenth Century to the Present) — Paltin_Syllabus_221 2015W1
ENGL 464 (Twentieth-Century Studies): “Acting Out in Groups”: Subculture, Narrative, Style — Syllabus-final
ENGL 539: Modernism, Mass Bodies and Crowd Politics (Graduate-level seminar) — ENGL 539 W15-16 Syllabus
2014-2015
ENGL 221 (English Literature from the Eighteenth Century to the Present)
ENGL 462 (Twentieth-Century British and Irish Studies): The Postcolonial Metropole (W15) — Paltin_Syllabus_462 W15
ENGL 466 (Studies in a Twentieth-Century Genre): Society of the Spectacle and Modernist Shorter Fiction (W15) — Paltin_Syllabus_466 W15