Instructional Designer and Talent Developer with an enthusiasm for all things nerdy and interesting.
Course Frameworks
Literary Adaptation
(Spring 2022)
Investigating the process of adapting literary texts into other media, especially film and television.
Syllabus here.
The Genre Turn
(Fall 2021)
Asking what genres ask us to think, and how contemporary novelists turn to genre to say something new about our world.
Syllabus here.
Not-So-Ancient Aliens
(Spring 2020)
Comparing SciFi narratives with stories about intercultural and international contact, exposing the limits and possibilities of such parallels.
Syllabus here.
Single Author Study: Kazuo Ishiguro
(Designed, not yet taught)
Tracing the literary evolution of Nobel and Booker Prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro through interculturalism, globalization and genre.
Syllabus here.
Selected Assessments
Analysis Paper Rubric
Personally-designed literary analysis rubric, the baseline for all feedback and revision to standard argumentative writing in my classes.
Rubric here.
Ongoing Portfolio Assignment
Assignment designed to push students to draw in texts from outside the course and apply the modes of thinking we develop together. Linked assignment was included as part of my Genre Turn course.
Assignment sheet here.
Review Assignment
Adapted literary analysis rubric designed to focus students on the relevant components of writing a review, including subjective (but substantiated) evaluation, context, and compelling framing.
Assignment sheet here.
Open-Ended Creative Project
Rubric for final creative project, with built-in flexibility for students to incorporate their own creative impulses.
Rubric here.
Presentation / Mini-Lesson
Assignment sheet and rubric for planning and presenting in-class mini-lessons on outside texts, including timeline for submission and revision
Assignment sheet here.
Kevin Gallin, PhD 