Teaching

Since 2015, I have taught both undergraduates and graduate students in the United States and Malaysia. While also developing and facilitating creative writing workshops outside academia. My passion is teaching students that everyone can be creative and even our most mundane experiences can become art.

Composition and Rhetoric  

I taught Western Michigan’s 1050: Thought and Writing from 2015 - 2018. This class served as the university’s introductory course to academic writing. Over the course of a semester, I exposed students to different modes of writing and guided them through persuasive writing, a personal essay and an academic research paper. My students came from diverse backgrounds and varying abilities, which has taught me to be a flexible and patient teacher. The skills and syllabus I developed for teaching composition can be adapted for students and professionals at higher levels of academia. 

I can design classes for individuals looking to improve their professional and public writing or tailor workshops for groups. I would love to work with PhD students and academics who would like to present their academic findings to the public or learn how to write opinion pieces.  

Creative Writing 

I have taught both the fundamentals of craft and more specialised classes around migration, place and identity. As a facilitator for UnRepresented KL, a writing workshop about unrepresented narratives of Kuala Lumpur, I led the fiction and non-fiction cohort through writing and feedback exercises and provided individual editing and critique. Contact me for more information about the kinds of writing workshops that I can design for you and your organisation.