Teaching

I teach data analytics, visualization, and text mining using R and Python, informed by a deep background in writing and literature. Interpretive methods of the humanities continue to shape my approach. The need to read closely, understand structure, and establish context drives me to emphasize clarity, reproducibility, and understanding as the foundation of technique.

My courses often bridge the digital and the analog. Learners develop project-based analyses and reports that connect the technical how with the analytical why. Whether in refining a visualization or exploring a text through sentiment analysis, they grow by reflecting on and explaining their process.

Learning requires change, and I strive to make that change easier by meeting learners where they are. Through substantial feedback, individual conferences, peer reviews, and consideration of works in progress, I help them move toward where they want to be.

Highlights

Cultivating Interactive Tutorials (with CSS and WebR)

CSS pseudo-classes nurture growth in the zen garden of WebR interactive tutorials—along with the help of a little JavaScript and YAML.

Presenting tmtyro

New R package! tmtyro provides an intuitive interface for text mining using the tidytext format.

Quarto, Quickly

Open resource showing practical use of Quarto for creating reproducible data science reports in Python, R, and SQL.

Understanding Linear Models in R

Slides demonstrating the application of linear models in R, including the use of tidy() and augment() from the broom package.

Finding Topics in Text Data

Way back in 2016, I shared some code to standardized a topic-modeling workflow. For one who was still relatively new to R, this workflow helped me speed through the process…

Past Courses

Grambling State University

Introduction to Big Data

Introduction to Data Analytics

Data Visualization

Literary Text Mining

Freshman Composition I

Freshman Composition II

Advanced Composition

Advanced Traditional Grammar

World Literature I: Beginnings to 1650

Epic Video assignment

World Literature II: 1650 to present

course introduction

Race, Representation, and the American Dream: 1860 to present

Intro. to British Literature II: 1798 to present

History and Survey of British Literature II

Major Literary Figures: Virginia Woolf

Comparative Literature: English Literature in/of South Asia

Spectral Textuality: The Gothic Tradition ~capstone

(Hurry Up, Please, It’s) Time in Modernist British Literature ~capstone

Louisiana State University in Shreveport

Modern Drama

Modern Fiction

The University of Edinburgh

Literature: Forms and Practices

Literature and the Literary: English Literature c. 1300 to 1700

The Individual in the World: British Literature c. 1700 to 1850

Writing and Revolution: English Literature c. 1760 to 1830

The World in the Individual: British Literature c. 1850 to 1950

Revolution in Writing: English Literature c. 1890 to 1939

Scottish Universities International Summer School

Text and Context: British and Irish Modernism