Teaching background
I have taught a variety of university-level courses on English literature and writing, both at UC Santa Barbara and Kwantlen Polytechnic University. My courses have ranged from introductory university writing and introductory literature courses, to upper-division seminars and lectures on early modern women’s travel writing, life-writing, eighteenth-century literature, women writers, and more.
COURSES TAUGHT:
Kwantlen Polytechnic University
ENGL 3360: Women Writers
ENGL 3325: Eighteenth-Century British Literature
ENGL 3370: Life-Writing: Travel Literature
ENGL 1100: Introduction to Academic Writing
ENGL 1202/1204: Reading and Writing about Selected Topics
UC Santa Barbara
ENGL 10: Introduction to Literary Study
ENGL 165: Early Modern English Women, Travel Writing, and Orientalism
ENGL 15: Introduction to Shakespeare
ENGL 34: Pan Latinx Literature
ENGL 50: Introduction to U.S. Minority Literatures
About
Teaching philosophy
My priority has always been to empower my students in their independent, critical thinking skills, and creative approaches to reading texts, providing them with important context for understanding historical literature that may be new or unfamiliar to them. However, my methods shift and are malleable, based on the feedback I have received in the classroom from my diverse students. I believe that this approach is critical to successful pedagogy within a liberal arts education.
Unita Ahdifard 