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Highlights from Maria's Teaching

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Student Shoutout: Ritter Amsbaugh (SCU '25)

Read this short senior profile of Ritter Amsbaugh as he cites how Maria's sustainability-themed courses helped shape his future plans.

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NEH Internship: Francesca D'Urzo (SCU '24)

Francesca D'Urzo was one of Maria's English advisees and students in the inaugural sustainability film class. Francesca reflects in this article about her work as Maria's REAL intern in 2022 as she assisted with the "CA Immigrant Experience in Literature and History" NEH institute.

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Fernando Sanchez (SJSU Newsletter)

On page 12 of the SJSU English Department's Fall 2015 Newsletter, Maria's former student Fernando Sanchez discusses how Maria nominated him to collaborate with Dr. Andrea Lunsford on a new edition of the St. Martin's Handbook.

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A New Lens on Sustainability (SCU 24')

How students Melanie Eng and Elena Carter learned about sustainability through Maria Judnick's "Sustainability: Life Stories and Film," course.

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Teaching Experience

Santa Clara University

Santa Clara, CA
(2013-Present)

San Jose State University

San Jose, CA 
(2013-2021, lecturer)

St. Mary's College of California

Moraga, CA
(2011-2013)

Presentation High School

San Jose, CA
(2009-2011)

San Jose State University

San Jose, CA 
(2008-2009, graduate student)

Loyola Marymount University

Los Angeles, CA
(Fall 2006, Fall 2007)

English Department 

  • Critical Thinking and Writing Course Themes (CTW 1-2):

  1. California Dreams and Reality

  2. Composing a Sustainable World

  3. Education and Identity

  4. Examining and Crossing Borders

  5. Writing about Change

  • Advanced Writing Courses:​

    1. ENGL 63–Introduction to Religion and Literature​

    2. ENGL 73–Life Writing

    3. ENGL 107S/COMM 137S–Sustainability: Stories and Film

    4. ENGL 174–Nonfiction Writing

    5. ENGL 181–Engineering Communications

    6. ENGL 199–Independent Study "Intersectional California Writing"

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Environmental Studies and Sciences Department

  1. ​ENVS 2A–Analyzing Green Rhetoric (2 peer educators)

  2. ENVS 196A–Sustainability 101 (co-taught with Dr. Matt Driscoll in Spring 2019)

  3. ENVS 95– Sustainability 101 (included a peer educator in Spring 2020)

English Department

  1. ENGL 1A–Stretch ENGL (Pilot Course Cohort Member 2014-2016)

  2. ENGL 2–Critical Thinking and Writing

  3. ENGL 100A–Writing Competency​

English Department

  • Lecturer

    1. ENGL 4–Composition (supervisor Lisa Manter, Fall 2012)​

  • Graduate Intern

    1. ENGL 25–Creative Writing Genres with Alex Green​

    2. ENGL 4–Composition with Marilyn Abildskov

English Department

  • ​Junior and Senior Electives:

    1. Environmental Literature

    2. Creative Writing

  • Lower Division Course:

    1. ENGL 9A​/9B–Regular/Honors Freshman Literature

    2. ENGL 10B–Sophmore Literature & Research Methods​

English Department

  • Teaching Assistant:​​​​​​

    1. ENGL 1A–Composition (supervisor Dr. Robert Cullen)​

  • Graduate Assistant:​

    1. ​ENGL 117: Vietnam Film/Lit with Dr. John Engell​

    2. ENGL 100W: Upper Division Writing with Dr. Kathy Harris

English Department

  • Honors 100 (required 1 unit tutorial for Honors 115 English course “On the Sublime”) co-taught with Jennifer Hubbell (Fall 2006) for Dr. Kelly Younger; co-taught with Matthew Delja (Fall 2007) for Dr. Paul Harris

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