In my fifteen years of teaching experience, I have taught over 100 sections, ranging from first-year composition to special topics literature courses.
Experience
Mississippi University for Women, Columbus, MS
Assistant Professor of English, Department of Languages, Literature, and Philosophy, 2024-present
Secondary English Education Coordinator
- Composition I
- Later British Literature
- Materials and Methods
- Teaching Internship for Secondary Teacher Candidates in English
- The Gothic
- Plants and Animals in Literature
Texas A&M- Central Texas
Guest Instructor, English Department Summer 2024
- Ecocriticism and Animal Studies
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR
Instructor of Record, English Department, 2017-2024
- World Literature
- Special Topics: Mutations, Monsters, and Media
- Basic Writing
- Composition 1
- Composition 2
- Technical Composition
- Advanced Composition
- Technical and Professional Writing
University of Central Arkansas, Conway, AR
Instructor of Record, English Department, 2021-2022
- Introduction to Poetry: Wilder Poems
- Film and Literature: Monsters and Mayhem
- Literature and the Examined Life: Sublime Nature and the Ethics of Enjoyment
- Interdisciplinary Writing and Research: Mad Science
University of Texas-Permian Basin, Odessa, TX
Lecturer, English Department 2015-2017
- Composition I (face-to-face and online)
- Composition II (face-to-face and online)
- American Literature Since 1865
Odessa College/New Tech Odessa High School, Odessa, TX
Dual-Credit Lecturer, Humanities Department 2012-2015
- Dual/AP British Literature I
- Dual/AP British Literature II
University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA
Graduate Lecturer/Instructor of Record, English Department 2010-2012
- Introduction to Academic Writing
- Writing and Research About Culture: Sitcoms and the American Domestic
Prepared to offer the following courses:
Prepared syllabi for the following literature and/or media courses: Introduction to Literature, Introduction to British Literature, Introduction to Fiction, Introduction to Poetry, Race and Empire in British Literature, Film and Literature, Comic Books as Literature, Introduction to Adaptation, Adaptation and the Nineteenth Century, Science in Literature, Women & Other(ed) Animals, The Literary Animal, Ecocriticism and Animal Studies, Mad Science in Literature, Sublime Nature and the Ethics of Enjoyment, Activism and Feminist Communities, Dissecting Gender in/with/for Science, Deflowering: Gender, Sexuality, and Plants
Kristen Figgins, Ph.D. 