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Below are a list of themes that instructors typically teach. For a list of what is going to be taught for the upcoming quarter, please check the "News" section of the Composition Website (at the bottom of the homepage). Once the themes for the upcoming quarter are available, they will be posted there. 

Instructor NameCourses Typically TaughtThemes
Atamdede, AyselWR50, WR 60WR50: Paranormal as the Other/Horror as Humanity. WR60: The Changing Face of Education
Atkin, KendraWR60 
Bacchus, HannahWR50Fairy Tales/Critical Reading and Analytical Writing
Baker, LibrechtWR60BLM/Technology and Bias
Bense, BrendanWR50Science Fiction & What Makes Us Human
Boghozian, ShareceWR50WR50: Allegory and Ideology
Brauer Rogers, EmilyWR 40, WR 45, WR 50, WR 60WR 40: How does Story Define Us? WR 45/WR 50: Science Fiction, WR 60: Climate Change
Brouwer, MoWR 50, WR 60Fairy Tales, Nature Writing, Animal Ethics
Buczinsky, ZakWR 50Exploring the Shadow
Campo Bowen, KathrynWriting 50; Literary Journalism 20WR 50: The Rhetoric of Memoir; WR 50: Travel Writing
Chavez, DanielaWR 60, 50, 40WR 60: Education as the Practice of Freedom
Cibula, PeterWR 45, WR 50, WR 60Bullshit Jobs (WR 60)
Comerci, John  
Danner, KeithWriting 45 and Writing 60.Writing 45: Memoir; Writing 60: Climate Change
Dean, MatthewWR 60WR 60: The American Housing Crisis
Delany-Ullman, LoreneWR 45, 50The Rhetoric of Memoir: A Slice of Life
Dubey, JayaWR 45, WR 50, WR 60WR 45/50: Fairy Tales & Disney, Anti-Fairy Tale, Horror, Fairy Tales & Social Change
Dumas, DeShawnWR60 (formerly WR 39C)WR60: Anthropocene & The Liberal Crisis of Rational Human Being
Eason, KatWR 40, WR 50WR40: Food for Thought

WR50: The Zombie Apocalypse
Eason, LorenWR 40, WR 45, WR 60WR 40 - College Music, WR 45 - Science Fiction and Speculative Journalism, WR 60 - Climate Refugees and Migration
Ellis, TagertWR45, WR50Disney Dystopia, Internet Infamy, Video Games+Memento Mori
Fixa, JackWR 60Climate Justice
Flores, BrianWR50 WR60WR50: Magical Realism WR60: Video Games and Technology
Gerci, JenniferWR 40, WR 50, WR 60, WR 139WAutobiographical writing, Latina and queer memoir (WR 40); Afrofuturism (WR 50); Gender and Fashion (WR 60)
Graul, KelinWR60Education and Critical Pedagogy
Gullaba Jr., AlbertoWR 40, WR 45, WR 50, WR 60 
Haas, LyndaWR 40, WR 45, WR 50, WR 60WR40: Disney films and the Social Construction of Gender; WR45/50: The Superhero Genre WR 60: Animal Science and Scicomm
Hanson-Kegerreis, SarahWR 45, WR 50, WR 60WR 45 and 50: science fiction; WR 60 themes: Climate Change, Environmental Justice, Education
Hanson, DanielleEnglish 16: The Craft of PoetryEnglish 16: The Craft of Poetry: Poetry of Surprise and Wonder; Writing 50: Fairy Tales
Harrison Vernon, AlexandraWR 50, WR 60The Rhetoric of Fairy Tales (WR 50), The Criminalization of Immigration (WR 60)
Hoenicke Flores, SarahWR60, LJ20Medical Humanities, Literary Journalism
Huerta Osborn, MarcWR 60WR 60: Immigration
Kilolo, MunyaoWR 60Technology
Kim, Jamie  
King, BeckyWR 45, WR 50, WR 60WR 45&50: Chivalric Romance, WR 60: Pollution and Environmental Justice
Kongshaug, ErikWR 50, WR 60, History 100WWR 50 (“Frankenstein Rhetoric”), WR 60 (“Pedagogy of Liberation”). I also teach an upper division writing course (History 100W, “The Craft of History Writing”) for the History Department.
Lara, MichaelNo courses taught at UCI, but TA for Puzzles and Paradoxes.I normally teach Intro to Philosophy, Philosophy and Music, Sociology of Pop Culture, Classical and Modern Sociological Theory, Revolutionary Theory and Activism, and recently Sociology of Religion.
Lee, JungminWR60WR60: Social Justice and Education
Leopold, J. AustinWR 60mass incarceration, abolition feminism, rhetorics of power
Lerner, ScottWR 50, WR 60WR 50: Zines and the Rhetoric of Change; Writing 60: Climate Change
Liberman, HannahWR 60WR 60: Deaths of Despair, shifting the framework
Lillmars, BryceWR 40/40A, WR 50, WR 60WR 40/40A & WR50: Food Writing; WR60 - Bioethics/Medical Ethics
Matthews, RicardoWR 50 and WR60WR 50 (Hollywood), WR 60 (The City in Trouble)
McBurnie-Nicolay, PatrickWR50 & WR60WR50: Social Protest Literature, WR60: The New Economy, WR60: Climate Change and Environmental Justice, WR60: Labor, Gender, and Globalization
McClure, GregWR 40, WR 50, WR 60, WR 139WModern Horror (WR 50), Superheroes (WR 50), Humanimal Intersections (WR 60), Narrative & Discipline (WR 139W)
Ming, RussellI have TA'd Intro to Philosophy, Intro to Ethics, Puzzles & Paradoxes, and Technology & Society; I have been the lead instructor for an Intro to Philosophy summer course, and am currently the lead for two sections of Business Ethics at CSU Bakersfield.I have only TA's or taught philosophy courses.
Morrell, IrisWR 50The Devil in Literature (WR50,) Writing About Illness
Nwabunnia, ElfriedaWR 50, Beginning PoetryWR 50: Science Fiction
Obodiac, ErinWR60, WR50WR60: TECHNO-ECOLOGIES OF THE ANTHROPOCENE, WR50: ROBOTS AND SCI-FI
Payne, LaurynWR 60Immigration (WR60)
Price, DarbyWR 45, WR 50, WR 60Rhetoric of the Devil (WR 45/50) and Information & Influence (WR 60). Occasionally, The Environment (WR 60) and Unnatural Creatures (WR45/50)
Read, MadeleineWR50Tragedy, Crime Fiction
Rowland, MarielWR60Education
Sandoval, JaimeWR 60WR 60: Labor and the Economy
Schubert, KathrynWR50, WR60WR50: Rhetoric of Fairy Tales; WR60: Gender, Labor, and Globalization
Schulte, JulieWriting 31, Writing 50, Writing 60, Writing 45Writing 50: The Language of Exile; Writing 60: Mothers and the Rhetoric
Seward, SpencerWR 40, WR 45, WR 50, and WR 50"What's Your Truth?" (WR 40), Family in Horror (WR 45/50)
Sharif, SaihamWR 50, WR60WR50: Fairy Tales; WR60: Animal Ethics
Short, GretchenWR 50Adapting to the Alien
Sims, RickWR 40, WR 45, WR 50WR 40: Opinion Writing -- WR 45: Pop Culture Criticism -- WR 50: Ecopoetry
Smith-Newman, JulianWR 60; WR 45WR 60: Social Movements and the Politics of Change; WR 45: Autoethnography
Son, Sara WR60: Immigration
Speer, MargaretWR 45, WR 50, WR 60"Medical Horror" "Medicine and Marginalized Identities"
Streitfeld, ScottWR 50, WR 60 
Suh, HaleyWR50, WR 60WR50: K-Pop Gothic Tales
WR60: Body Politics and Epidemic Diseases
Tada, AnnabelleWR 50, WR 60WR 50: Fairy Tales, WR 60: Medical Ethics and Marginalized Perspectives
Venegas, YolandaWR45, WR50, WR60

WR 45/50: Autohistoria: Personal Writing for Social Change

WR 60: First Generation Students and the Promise of Higher Education

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Viger, NoelleWR60,WR60: Elections and Democracy in the United States
Watson, EmmaWR 50Fairy Tales (WR 50)
Weinberg, DaraWR 60Free Speech Abuses
Wells, EmilyW​R40, WR45, WR50, WR60, WR139WMedical humanities(60), autobiographical medical narratives (139W), new journalism and the personal essay (40), Gender in literature (45, 50)
White, MarionWR 60 
Wiggins, WyattI have TA'd for world history survey courses, European history courses, and religions classes.War and Memory, Comparative study of faith traditions, analyzing world history and interconnected systems (social, political, financial, etc.) Queenship and kinship in the medieval world.
Winiarski, CatherineWR 40, 50, 60American nature writing, climate justice
Zhuang, JieWR 40, 50, 60Style and Rhetoric; Fairy Tales; Horror; Global Woman
Ziff, JoostWR 60Free Speech and its Limits. Artificial Intelligence and its impact on the Working World.