TEACHING
WRITING AGAINST THE GRAIN
Universität der Künste Berlin
2024 | Course link | Syllabus
The goal is to expand both new and experienced writers’ vocabulary and ideas around the visual arts by developing curiosity, depth, and empathy for African diasporic subjects. As such, the first part of the course will explore how historical amnesia persists in art writing from the early twentieth century until today, and the second part of the course will function as an art writing course where students will lean into art writing and criticism. For the first portion of the course, participants will read art criticism from the early twentieth century to the present and centre on art's historical representation or absence of Black subjects and how we can work through art criticism today.
FEAR OF A PANDEMIC
Freie Universität
The course meditates on this fear through the theory of containment with special attention to racialized bodies in prisons, sanitoriums, and plantations. It is not only the case that non-white people were racialized and perceived as be vectors of disease but that their labor was withheld, they were forced to live in segregation, and in some cases, they were experimented upon.
COLONIALISM, SCIENCE, AND THE SUBALTERN IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA
Bard College Berlin
2019 | Course link | Syllabus
This course critically examined science in the Middle East and North Africa from the 1800s until the contemporary period by considering the ways that the subaltern, i.e., the working poor, women, laypeople, were also active participants in producing scientific and medical knowledge. By exploring the contradictions and tensions between colonizers and their subjects, the course uncovers how science has been used as a colonial tool but also an instrument of resistance.
THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE FOR THE GLOBAL SUBALTERN
Humboldt Universität
This seminar focuses on how disease, medicine, and therapeutics have shifted from 1750 until 2000. Spanning a range of disciplines, geographies, and time periods, students in the course will explore recent scholarship that critically engages with disease and healing especially as it relates to imperialism, mapping, race, gender, and sexuality.
RACE AND FILM IN U.S. HISTORY
Drexel University
This course will trace the history of race and relations in film from 1915 until the present by exploring familiar racialized and gendered tropes that have emerged in film representations of ethnic and racial minorities and chart changes over time.
ARAB CINEMA AND SOCIETY
Drexel University
This course examines contemporary films from the Middle East and North Africa with an emphasis on the theory and practice of film from the region. Over the duration of the semester, the class will explore various themes in the region including colonialism, gender, internal conflict, and socio-political violence, within both historical and present political contexts.