"What you learn, teach. What you get, give." ~Maya Angelou
Dr. Carey teaches undergraduate courses in women's writing and cultural rhetorics and graduate seminars on Writing pedagogy as well as Feminist and African American rhetoric seminars.
Graduate Courses/Independent Studies - Themes and readings have varied from class to class
Undergraduate Composition Courses
The full version of Dr. Carey's teaching philosophy is available by request.
Graduate Courses/Independent Studies - Themes and readings have varied from class to class
- (UVA) English 8500: Black Women's Rhetorics. A seminar exploring critical scholarship on black women's discursive strategies, literacies, and pedagogies.
- (UAlbany 770/UVA 8900) English: Teaching Writing and Literature. A seminar focusing on the pedagogical theories and techniques as well as the institutional resources teachers can draw upon to conceptualize and design an undergraduate English or Writing course.
- (UAlbany) English 771: Practicum in Teaching Literature and Writing. A workshop-style seminar examining practical issues that foster or complicate effective college-level teaching. (Full course description available here.)
- (UAlbany) English 621: African American Rhetorical Traditions. A broad overview of African Americans’ persuasive and strategic use of discourse as a set of theoretical and rhetorical traditions.
- (UAlbany) English/Women Gender and Sexuality Studies 621: Feminist Rhetorics. A seminar exploring the development of feminist rhetorics as a theoretical and practical enterprise within U.S. and global contexts. (*password available by request)
- (UAlbany) Feminist Rhetorics, Pedagogies, and Life Writing
- (UAlbany) Visual and Feminist Rhetorics (co-led with Laura Wilder)
- (UNCP/UAlbany/UVA) ENWR 3740: Black Women's Writing and Rhetoric. A chronological survey of the persuasive strategies Black women have used towards the project of empowerment and activism in speeches, essays, poetry, drama, and novels. (*password available by request)
- (UAlbany/UVA) English/Africana Studies ENWR 3730: African American Rhetorical Traditions. An undergraduate survey of the distinct communication and argumentative strategies African Americans have created and modified in pursuit of full humanity since the enslavement era.
- (UVA) ENWR 3500: Studies in Cultural Rhetorics: The Cultural Work of Stories. An undergraduate seminar interrogating rhetorical methods and the cultural function of storytelling.
- (UAlbany) English 399Z: Honor's Seminar (2017/2018): "She Gave Me Life: Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Black Women's Writing." An introduction to the methodologies and ethics of sustained literary and rhetorical research focusing on Black women writers who have composed texts illustrating, naming, influencing, and or counteracting the factors shaping their realities and sense of self in society. (Full course description available here.)
- (UAlbany) English/Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies 368: Women Writers - "Women Writing the Critical Memoir". A chronological survey introducing students to the craft of the feminist memoir and the forms literary and rhetorical criticism that have developed as women have used the genre as a means of social intervention and critique.
- (UAlbany) English 305V: Studies in Writing About Texts: "Maturity Matters: Memoirs, Messages, and More." A concentrated seminar introducing writing processes for literary and rhetorical analysis focusing on coming of age memoirs.
- (UAlbany) Introduction to English Studies. Introduces various methods of reading and interpretation. Required of all English majors.
Undergraduate Composition Courses
- (UVA) ENWR 2510: Advanced Writing Seminar:
- Life Writing and Culture. Sustained instruction in composing processes that emphasizes writing as a way of generating, representing, and reflecting on critical inquiry. Focus, Multicultural Women's Memoir, Life Writing and Identity.
- Writing Regret and Repair. Intensive instruction in academic writing processes through an exploration of critical scholarship on rhetoric and apology.
- (UAlbany) English 205z: Introduction Writing in English Studies. Prepares and reinforces writing processes and practices necessary for English majors through a focus on close-reading, analysis, argumentation and writing about writing on literary genres and criticism. Themed Inquiries include: "Hip-Hop Feminism; MisEducation: Literature as the Original Media; Writing Home.
- (SYR) Writing 205: Introduction to Research and Writing. An introduction to research principles (ie. developing research questions, conducting surveys, and searching databases) and conventions for writing researched arguments (annotation, synthesis, citation). Themed inquiries include: The History of "Hip"; Hip-Hop as a Subculture.
- (SYR) Writing 105: Introduction to College Writing. An introduction to processes of description, analysis, and argumentation as well as invention, drafting, and revision strategies. Themed inquiries include: Music as Argument; The Politics of Education; Writing the City; De'Cyphering the Conversation: Reading, Writing, and Hip-Hop.
- (SYR) English 0104: Written Communication Skills. A course designed to aid students in refining the written communication and reading skills necessary for college-level writing. Themed inquiries include: Critical Encounters With Texts.
The full version of Dr. Carey's teaching philosophy is available by request.