Kristin is an Assistant Professor of English at Hope College in Holland, MI where she teaches first-year writing, interdisciplinary courses in the humanities, professional writing, and secondary English education courses.
Kristin began her career in the 9-12 ELA classroom, teaching for nine years before beginning her doctoral work at the University of Michigan.
Kristin enjoys teaching writing, creative nonfiction, and English education methods courses. She is consistently impressed by her students’ energy and thoughtfulness.
Recent Courses Taught at Hope College
IDS 492: Senior Seminar
Description: This Senior Seminar course asks some of the most enduring questions faced by adults: How should I live? What habits will shape my time and experiences? What are my most important values, and how can I shape my life around the cultivation of those priorities? Where should I live? How should I spend my resources? What kinds of friends, mentors, and colleagues do I need? In this course, students will read, write, reflect, and meditate on the wisdom of others who have thought deeply about these same questions. By the end of the course, students will write their own thoughtful responses to this driving question: How should I live?
English 380: Teaching English in Secondary Schools
Description: This English education course combines theory and methods with internship experience in local secondary schools. Students will study and practice the teaching of language, literature, and writing.
English 113: Language and Culture
Description: This academic writing course explores the ways that language creates and interprets culture, and in particular, the ways that our attitudes about language shape our realities and mediate our understandings of ourselves and our cultures. Readings and projects will cover a range of topics including the ways that language and culture are mutually sustaining, the rhetoric of social media, and close analyses of cultural phenomena. Students will also develop research projects in areas of personal interest.
English 213: Writing Theory and Practice
English 214: Workplace Writing
English 288: Teaching Writing to Adolescents
English 292: Teaching Literature to Adolescents
Other Teaching Experience
Adjunct Graduate Faculty, Education Department, Calvin University, 2024-
High school English teacher, Grand Rapids Christian High School, 2006-2016.
Graduate Student Instructor, First-year Writing, University of Michigan, 2016- 2017.
