At Rutgers, I teach the following courses:

101: The Nature of Politics

The Nature of Politics is an introductory level course which traces the concepts power, voice, and perspective through political theory. We read canonical texts by Thucydides, Plato, Locke, Rousseau, and Tocqueville in the first half of the semester, and examine them through the lens of “the Racial Contract” over the second half of the semester.

365: Gender and Political Theory

This undergraduate seminar examines the way the concept gender has underpinned political ideas and institutions from the ancients to today. Reading texts ranging from Sophocles’ Antigone, Rousseau’s Emile, and Freud’s “Dora” interpretations to Firestone’s Dialectic of Sex and Davis’ Women, Race, and Class, the class raises questions about what it means to “engender” a sexual politics in institutions like marriage and the household, as well as how political theorists have pursued sexual freedom in and beyond these institutions.

377: Marx and Marxism

This undergraduate seminar introduces students to the rhetorical, political, and methodological dimensions of Karl Marx’s most famous writings, and considers the “afterlives” of these texts as they reverberated throughout the 20th century. Units on state communism, socialist feminism, and decolonial Marxism make up the second half of the course.

423: Contemporary Feminist Theory

This undergraduate seminar explores debates in feminist theory from the 1980s to the present. Rather than frame these debates as purely methodological or academic knowledge, however, it considers key texts in feminist theory by lesbian, Black, and indigenous feminists as interventions in material conditions of inequality.

Grad Seminar: Feminist Theory Beyond “the Waves”

This graduate seminar begins with critiques of the “three wave” narrative of feminism by Black, Third World, and lesbian feminists. We then turn to the concept of intersectionality to consider how it exceeds and challenges the notion of feminism’s increasing inclusivity, and we conclude the semester by examining the “politics of non-alignment” developed by indigenous, queer and trans, and Black feminists.