Current Teaching

During the academic year 2012 - 2013, I am a tutor in the Literature and Psychoanalysis module. This module, convened by John Fletcher, explores the development of psychoanalysis and its role as a literary theory. The course reads many of the central psychoanalytic books and essays alongside literary texts such as Oedipus Rex, Hamlet and The Tales of Hoffmann.

I am a postgraduate tutor in the Modern World Literatures module for the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies. The module will explore defining texts in world literature from 1789 to the present. Set texts include:

Goethe, Faust Part I, trans. David Luke
Equiano, Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, African
Shelley, Frankenstein
Ibsen, A Doll’s House, trans. James McFarlane
Soseki, Kokoro, trans. Meredith McKinney
Conrad, Heart of Darkness
Kafka, The Metamorphosis, trans. Michael Hofmann
Eliot, The Waste Land
Katherine Anne Porter, Pale Horse, Pale Rider
Brecht, Mother Courage and Her Children, trans. Ralph Manheim
Beckett, Endgame
Nabokov, Lolita
Ngugi, A Grain of Wheat

Miéville, Embassytown

Satrapi, Persepolis

The convenors for this module are Dr. Nick Lawrence n.lawrence@warwick.ac.uk and Dr. Dan Katz d.katz@warwick.ac.uk

During the 2011-2012 Academic year, I was a tutor for Modern World Literatures.

During the academic year 2010 - 2011, I was a postgraduate tutor in the Modes of Reading module. I taught a seminar group in which we explored various critical modes of reading; including Marxism, psychoanalysis, feminism, post-colonial studies, geographical literary theory and Queer theory.

The set texts were:

The Magic Toyshop - Angela Carter

Howl - Alan Gingsberg

The Lonely Londoners - Sam Selvon

The Buddha of Suburbia - Hanif Kureishi

The current convenor for this module was Dr. Gill Frith. G.M.Frith@warwick.ac.uk

I am also a tutor in the Academic Writing Program's Communicating Science Seminars

I teach writing skills, the development of fact sheets and academic posters, and the delivery of oral presentations to students in the sciences.

In the Autumn term I teach students in the Physics Department; in the Spring I teach students in the Computer Science department; and in the Summer I teach students in the Manufacturing School.

The current convenor for this seminar is Dr. Rochelle Sibley. Rochelle.Sibley@warwick.ac.uk

I am currently a tutor for Barker-Smith Tuition.

I tutor all subjects in Key Stages 1-3, English and Literature at the GCSE level, psychology and literature at A-level, and psychochology, physiology and literature for university level students.

Past Teaching

I have been a teacher in different fields for 25 years.

Starting in 1987 and continuing to the present day I have taught anatomy, physiology and bodywork in many different schools including: the Massage School of Santa Monica, the Bodymind Institute, the Massage School of Los Angeles, and many other workshops. I currently teach an occasional class through Forest of Arden Healing Arts.

In 1992 I taught introductory psychology at California Sate University at Los Angeles.

From 2001 - 2007 I taught public school in Los Angeles first at Hollenbeck Middle School and then at Hollywood High School. I taught multiple academic content matter to learning-disabled and emotionally-disturbed students. I was responsible for teaching them English, Literature, History, Biology and Health. One of my most difficult challenges in this job was teaching Shakespeare to unruly students, including some street gang members. To accomplish this I invented ways of reading the plays that appealed to this special group.