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Abstract Blue Composition

Highlights from Maria's Teaching

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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