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Teaching

Current Teaching in the Outer Coast Undergraduate Program:

Fishing Term.

Introduction to Outer Coast (with Yeidikookʼáa Dionne Brady Howard)

Storytelling (with Caroline Daws)

Fall Term.

Indigenous Studies I: Tlingit Language and Culture (with Yeidikookʼáa Dionne Brady-Howard)

Spring Term.

Indigenous Studies II: Ideas, Frameworks, the Bridge Between Cultures (with Maggie Spivey-Faulkner)

Elective Courses.

Topics in Tlingit Language and Culture. 

Stories: Literary and Linguistic Analysis

Topics in Science and Culture. 

Dreaming: A History and Investigation

Topics in Literature.

Tolstoy: Artist and Reformer

Past Teaching at Outer Coast:

Fall, 2023.

Indigenous Studies: Language and Story in Sitka and Beyond (with Yeidikookʼáa Dionne Brady-Howard)
 

Spring, 2023.

Indigenous Studies: Nature and Culture (with Yeidikookʼáa Dionne Brady-Howard)

Fall, 2022.

Indigenous Studies: Language and Story in Sitka and Beyond (with Yeidikookʼáa Dionne Brady-Howard)

Spring, 2022.

Seminar: Dreaming: A History and Investigation. 

Seminar: States of Nature.

Study Group: Tlingit Language.

 

Past Teaching at Other Institutions:

Rhode Island School of Design

Fall, 2020. Grad/Glass 451G: Critical Issues Graduate Seminar: Rootedness.

Harvard University

Spring, 2019. Independent Study Advisor, Prophetic Movements in Native North America and the Boas-Hunt Kwak’wala Corpus.

Princeton University

Spring, 2017. Preceptor, Slavic 366: Eastern Europe: Culture and History. Course head: Irena Gross.

Fall, 2016. Preceptor, Center for Human Values 375/Comparative Literature 375: Law’s Stories. Course head: Peter Brooks.

Fall, 2013. Preceptor, Center for Human Values 375/Comparative Literature 375: Law’s Stories. Course head: Peter Brooks.

Fall, 2011. Teaching Assistant, Slavic 381/Theater 381: Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin (Petersburg 1823-31, Moscow 1936, Princeton 2012). Course heads: Caryl Emerson and Timothy Vasen.

Princeton University Prison Teaching Initiative (Rutgers University and Mercer County Community College)

Fall, 2016. Instructor, Justice Studies 003: Law’s Stories, accredited Rutgers University, Rutgers BA program at Edna Mahan Women’s Correctional Facility in cooperation with Princeton University Center for Human Values.

Fall, 2015. Instructor, English 205: American Literature, AC Wagner Correctional Facility, accredited Mercer County Community College.

Fall, 2014. Instructor, English 024: Preparatory Writing through Journalism, AC Wagner Correctional Facility, accredited Mercer County Community College.

Fall, 2013. Instructor, English 024: Preparatory Writing through Journalism, AC Wagner Correctional Facility, accredited Mercer County Community College.

Spring, 2013. Instructor, English 024: Preparatory Writing through Journalism, AC Wagner Correctional Facility, accredited Mercer County Community College.

Fall, 2012. Instructor, English 024: Preparatory Writing, AC Wagner Correctional Facility, accredited Mercer County Community College.

Spring, 2012. Instructor, English 101: Composition, Garden State Correctional Facility, accredited Mercer County Community College.

Fall, 2011. Instructor, English 101: Composition, Garden State Correctional Facility, accredited Mercer County Community College.

©2022 by Matthew Spellberg.

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