jaimy
michelle mann
University
of Florida
courses devised
and taught:
- LIT
4334. Section 6822. "The Golden Age of Children's Literature."
Fall, 2008. This class examined the “Golden Age” of children’s literature in Britain and the U.S. -- from The Swiss Family Robinson (1812) to The Secret Garden (1911) and Peter Pan (1911) -- even as it questioned the very conceit of a golden age. A key component was looking at the important periodical for which many authors wrote, St. Nicholas, in the University of Florida’s Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature.
- LIT
2120. Section 3613.
“The Orient/The East”: Asian & Asian Diasporic Childhoods
1930 - 2008." Spring, 2008. required course for Asian
American Studies Certificate. This course grappled with the definitions of childhood and how those definitions applied to what Edward Said writes is the “Oriental” subject. We examined texts from Iran, Vietnam, Japan and Asian America, including Yukio Mishima’s Confessions of a Mask, Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior, and Gene Luen Yang’s American Born Chinese.
- LIT
2120, Section 2504. "The Element of Cute in International Children's
Culture 1890-2006." Fall, 2006. This class explored “cute” as a vehicle to explore race, nationality, hetero/homo/transsexualities, trauma, subversion, imperialism, and war. Texts included Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis, Hayao Miyazaki’s film Kiki’s Delivery Service, and the picture books The Storyof Babar and Little Black Sambo.
- Guest teacher for
Aaron Talbot's AML 2410, "Issues in American Literature and Culture:
Gay Male Adolescent Literature." Discussed Dennis Cooper's novel Closer for two days.
California
State University, Los Angeles
- English 101: Freshman Composition.
Course Schedule.
- English 100:One
unit, credit/no credit supplement, taken in conjuction with English
101, for students scoring between English 96 and English 101 level.
- English
96: Basic Writing
- English 430: Children's
Literature Graduate
Student Assistant. Lectures and power point presentations on African-American
children's picture books, trauma literature, graphic novels, comic books,
children's literature awards, lesbian & gay chldren's literature.
Attendance and grading of exams, papers, and weekly Internet postings
for lecture course of 75-100 students. Facilitate discussions for smaller
groups of 4-40 students.
- University Writing Center
Tutor and Writing Proficiency Exam Consultant: Individual
writing tutoring across the curriculum for undergraduate and graduate
students. Conduct and facilitate workshops for 2-35 students on topics
including the Writing Proficiency Exam, Proofreading, Grammar, ESL,
Conversation Lab.
- University Tutorial Center
Tutor: Multiple subject
tutoring. Tutor certification by the College Reading and Learning Association.
East Los Angeles
College
- English Department grader
for Composition and mythology courses.
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