Courses Taught

Courses Taught

I have been teaching at the college and high school level for the past fourteen years, in a variety of subjects. At my current position, I am responsible for designing and implementing 6 courses a term, 5 terms a year. Below is a summary of my teaching experience, including links to some of my syllabi. If you are interested in other of my syllabi, just drop me a line and let me know.

Course Offerings, Term 1, 2012

Pilgrimage to Paradise (Chaucer, Malory, Spenser, Milton)

AP Art History: Greek & Roman Art & Architecture

Harry Potter & The Art Of The Allusion

The Bible and Literature

Epic Literature

Shakespeare’s Women

Course Offerings, Term 5, 2011

British Literature: The Victorians and the Moderns

Race and Ethnicity in Medieval Literature

Bad Boys in British Literature

Wicked Women in Literature (Witches and Bitches)

Arthuriana

AP Art History: 16th-19th Century Art

Course Offerings, Term 4, 2011

Lewis and Tolkien
Literature of Genocide
Creative Writing
AP Art History: Medieval & Renaissance Art
Shakespeare’s Comedies
British Romanticism

Course Offerings, Term 3 2011

English Renaissance Excluding Shakespeare

Research Methods

Greek and Roman Art & Architecture

19th and 20th century women’s writing

Monsters in British Literature

Tissues and Issues

Course Offerings, Term 2, 2011

Medieval British Literature

Epic Literature

Women’s Writing

Research Methods

Modern Art History

Shakespeare’s Latin Plays

Course Offerings, Term 1, 2011

The Bible and Literature

Viking Literature

Women in Medieval Literature

Irish Literature

From Pilgrimage to Paradise

Nonwestern Art History

Course Offerings, Term 5, 2010

Harry Potter and the Art of the Allusion
Wicked Women in Literature
Monsters in British Literature
The Victorians and the Moderns
The “Other” in Shakespeare
AP Art History: 17th-19th Century Art

Course Offerings, term 4, 2010

Lewis and Tolkien
Literature of Genocide
Creative Writing
AP Art History: Medieval & Renaissance Art
Tissues and Issues: Female Archetypes in Literature
British Romanticism

Course Offerings, Term 3, 2010

Greek and Roman Art and Architecture
Arthuriana
Literature of the British Renaissance, excluding Shakespeare
Shakespeare’s Comedies
Women in Medieval Writing
Mythology and Folklore

Course Offerings, Term 2, 2010

Medieval and Renaissance Art
Medieval British Literature
Bad Boys in British Literature
Tolkien and the Epic Tradition
19th and 20th Century Women’s Writing
The Bible and Literature (New Course Offering)

http://sites.google.com/site/melissaelmes/Home/publications-and-papers/courses-taught/Thebibleandliterature.doc?attredirects=0&d=1

Course Offerings, term 1, 2010

Early British Epic and Saga

Bad Boys in British Literature

Tissues and Issues (Female archetypes in literature)

Epic Literature (J.R.R. Tolkien and Nation Building in the Classical and Modern Epic Traditions)

http://sites.google.com/site/melissaelmes/Home/publications-and-papers/courses-taught/EpicliteratureTolkien.doc?attredirects=0&d=1

Harry Potter and the Art of the Allusion (research methods class)

http://sites.google.com/site/melissaelmes/Home/publications-and-papers/courses-taught/HarryPotterandtheArtoftheallusion.doc?attredirects=0&d=1

Greek and Roman Art and Architecture (Art History)

Course Offerings, Term 5, 2009

Children’s Literature (New Course Offering)

http://sites.google.com/site/melissaelmes/Home/publications-and-papers/courses-taught/Childrenslitsyllabus2009.doc?attredirects=0&d=1

Irish Literature

Witches and Bitches in Literature

Literature of Genocide

Shakespeare’s Comedies

AP Art History: Art of the Nonwestern World

Course Offerings, Term 4, 2009

British Literature: Bad Boys in Medieval British Literature (new course offering)

http://sites.google.com/site/melissaelmes/Home/publications-and-papers/courses-taught/ElmesBadBoysinMedievalBritishLiterature2009.doc?attredirects=0

Gendered Voices (New course offering)

http://sites.google.com/site/melissaelmes/Home/publications-and-papers/courses-taught/Elmes%2CGenderedVoices2009.doc?attredirects=0

British Romanticism

Mythology & Folklore

Creative Writing

AP Art History: Modern art

Course Offerings, Term 3 2009

British Literature: English Renaissance Excluding Shakespeare

http://sites.google.com/site/melissaelmes/Home/publications-and-papers/courses-taught/LiteratureoftheEnglishRenaissancesyllabus2009.pdf?attredirects=0

19th & 20th Century Women Writers (New course offering)

http://sites.google.com/site/melissaelmes/Home/publications-and-papers/courses-taught/19th%2620thcwomen%27swriting2009.pdf?attredirects=0

Monsters and Violence in British Texts (New course offering)

http://sites.google.com/site/melissaelmes/Home/publications-and-papers/courses-taught/MonstersandViolenceinBritishLiterature2009.pdf?attredirects=0

19th Century Russian Prose

http://sites.google.com/site/melissaelmes/Home/publications-and-papers/courses-taught/RussianProse2009.pdf?attredirects=0

Performance Literature II: 19th and 20th Century Drama

http://sites.google.com/site/melissaelmes/Home/publications-and-papers/courses-taught/PerformanceLiteratureIIsyllabus2009.pdf?attredirects=0

AP Art History : 17th-19th Century Art and Architecture

http://sites.google.com/site/melissaelmes/Home/publications-and-papers/courses-taught/17thto19thcenturyrevisedsyllabusarthistory2009.pdf?attredirects=0

Course Offerings, Term 2 2009

British Literature: Medieval (restructured course offering – new track)

http://sites.google.com/site/melissaelmes/Home/publications-and-papers/courses-taught/MedievalBritishLiteratureSyllabus2009.doc?attredirects=0

Survey of Women in Medieval Literature (new course offering)

http://sites.google.com/site/melissaelmes/Home/publications-and-papers/courses-taught/WomeninMedievalWriting.doc?attredirects=0

Tolkien’s Women: Female Archetypes in The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (new course offering)

http://sites.google.com/site/melissaelmes/Home/publications-and-papers/courses-taught/Tolkienswomensyllabus2009.doc?attredirects=0

French Literature: Survey Medieval – 19th Century

Performance Literature I: Theatre History, Classical – 17th-Century Drama

AP Art History: Medieval / Renaissance Art and Architecture

Course Offerings, Term I 2009

Early British Epic and Saga (Viking Literature) (New course offering)

http://sites.google.com/site/melissaelmes/Home/publications-and-papers/courses-taught/EarlyBritishEpicandSagasyllabus.doc?attredirects=0

Epic Literature

http://sites.google.com/site/melissaelmes/Home/publications-and-papers/courses-taught/epiclit2009.doc?attredirects=0

AP Art History: Greek and Roman Art and Architecture

Arthuriana

http://sites.google.com/site/melissaelmes/Home/publications-and-papers/courses-taught/Elmes-BritLitV2009.doc?attredirects=0

Tissues and Issues (Female Archetypes in Literature)

http://sites.google.com/site/melissaelmes/Home/publications-and-papers/courses-taught/TissuesandIssues2009.doc?attredirects=0

Course Offerings: 2008-2009

Irish Literature (new course offering)

http://sites.google.com/site/melissaelmes/Home/publications-and-papers/courses-taught/IrishLiteraturesyllabus.doc?attredirects=0

Witches and Bitches in Literature (new course offering – Negative Female Archetypes)

http://sites.google.com/site/melissaelmes/Home/publications-and-papers/courses-taught/WickedWomeninLiterature.doc?attredirects=0

Shakespearean Comedy (new course offering)

http://sites.google.com/site/melissaelmes/Home/publications-and-papers/courses-taught/Shakespearecomediessyllabus.doc?attredirects=0

British Literature: The Renaissance Excluding Shakespeare (new course offering )

http://sites.google.com/site/melissaelmes/Home/publications-and-papers/courses-taught/LiteratureoftheEnglishRenaissancesyllabus.doc?attredirects=0

Mythology and Folklore

http://sites.google.com/site/melissaelmes/Home/publications-and-papers/courses-taught/MythologyandFolkloresyllabusterm52008Elmes.doc?attredirects=0

AP Art History: Nonwestern Art

http://sites.google.com/site/melissaelmes/Home/publications-and-papers/courses-taught/arthistoryrevisednonwesternsyllabus2008.doc?attredirects=0

British Literature: Arthuriana

http://sites.google.com/site/melissaelmes/Home/publications-and-papers/courses-taught/ElmesBritLitV2008.doc?attredirects=0

Shakespeare’s Latin Plays

http://sites.google.com/site/melissaelmes/Home/publications-and-papers/courses-taught/ShakespeareLatinPlays2008.doc?attredirects=0

Early American Writing

http://sites.google.com/site/melissaelmes/Home/publications-and-papers/courses-taught/ElmesEarlyAmericanWritings2008.doc?attredirects=0

Epic Literature

Women’s Writing

Greek & Roman Art & Architecture

British Literature I: Middle Ages – 17th Century

http://sites.google.com/site/melissaelmes/Home/publications-and-papers/courses-taught/britlitI2008.doc?attredirects=0

French Literature: Author Study-Alexandre Dumas

Asian-American Literature

Medieval/Renaissance Art History

Performance Literature I: Ancient Drama- 17th Century European Drama

17th-19th Century Art History

American Literature 1900-1945

http://sites.google.com/site/melissaelmes/Home/publications-and-papers/courses-taught/AmericanLiterature19001945syllabus20082.doc?attredirects=0

British Literature II: Victorians and Moderns

http://sites.google.com/site/melissaelmes/Home/publications-and-papers/courses-taught/CourseSyllabusbritlit2revised2.doc?attredirects=0

Literature of Genocide

http://sites.google.com/site/melissaelmes/Home/publications-and-papers/courses-taught/LiteratureofGenocidesyllabus20082.doc?attredirects=0

Creative Writing

Russian Prose

http://sites.google.com/site/melissaelmes/Home/publications-and-papers/courses-taught/RussianProse20082.doc?attredirects=0

Lewis & Tolkien

Performance Literature II: 19th and 20th Century American and European Drama

http://sites.google.com/site/melissaelmes/Home/publications-and-papers/courses-taught/PerformanceLiteratureIIsyllabus2.doc?attredirects=0

Tissues & Issues: Female Archetypes in Literature

http://sites.google.com/site/melissaelmes/Home/publications-and-papers/courses-taught/TissuesandIssues2.doc?attredirects=0

Mythology & Folklore

http://sites.google.com/site/melissaelmes/Home/publications-and-papers/courses-taught/MythologyandFolkloresyllabusElmes.doc?attredirects=0

British Romanticism

http://sites.google.com/site/melissaelmes/Home/publications-and-papers/courses-taught/BritishLiteratureIIIsyllabus.doc?attredirects=0

Modern Art History

Courses: 2007-2008

Greek & Roman Art and Architecture

http://sites.google.com/site/melissaelmes/Home/publications-and-papers/courses-taught/ArthistoryrevisedGreek%26Romansyllabus2007.doc?attredirects=0

British Literature I: Middle Ages- 17th Century

Shakespeare’s Latin Plays

Epic Literature

Early American Writing

Women’s Literature

British Literature II: Victorians and Moderns

Performance Literature I: Ancient Drama- 17th Century European Drama

Medieval/Renaissance Art

http://sites.google.com/site/melissaelmes/Home/publications-and-papers/courses-taught/ArtHistoryrevisedMed-Rensyllabus2007.doc?attredirects=0

American Literature 1865-1900

Literature of Genocide

French Literature: Author Study – Alexandre Dumas

Jewish-American Literature

Russian Prose

17th-19th Century Art History

http://sites.google.com/site/melissaelmes/Home/publications-and-papers/courses-taught/17thto19thcenturyrevisedsyllabusarthistory2007.doc?attredirects=0

American Literature 1900-1945

http://sites.google.com/site/melissaelmes/Home/publications-and-papers/courses-taught/AmericanLiterature19001945syllabus2007.doc?attredirects=0

Performance Literature II: 19th-20th Century European and American Drama

British Romanticism

American Literature 1945-1975

Modern Art History

http://sites.google.com/site/melissaelmes/Home/publications-and-papers/courses-taught/ModernArtHistoryrevised2007.doc?attredirects=0

Asian-American Literature

Lewis & Tolkien

http://sites.google.com/site/melissaelmes/Home/publications-and-papers/courses-taught/lewisandtolkiensyllabus.doc?attredirects=0

Nonwestern Literature

http://sites.google.com/site/melissaelmes/Home/publications-and-papers/courses-taught/nonwesternlitsyllabus.doc?attredirects=0

Courses: 2006-2007

Performance Literature II: 19th & 20th Century Drama in Europe and America

Contemporary American Literature

British Literature III: Romanticism

Epic Literature

http://sites.google.com/site/melissaelmes/Home/publications-and-papers/courses-taught/epiclit.doc?attredirects=0

Greek & Roman Art & Architecture

Women’s Literature

African-American Literature

French Literature

Shakespeare’s Latin Plays

American Literature 1865-1900

Medieval/Renaissance Art

British Literature I: Middle Ages-17th Century

Performance Literature I: Survey Ancient Drama – 17th Century European Drama

American Literature 1900-1945

British Literature II: Victorians and Moderns

17th-19th Century Art History

Russian Prose

Literature of Genocide

Jewish-American Literature

Performance Literature II: 19th-20th Century European and American Drama

World Literature Special Topics: Vikram Seth & The Modern Indian Novel

http://sites.google.com/site/melissaelmes/Home/publications-and-papers/courses-taught/WorldLiteratureSpecialTopicssyllabus.doc?attredirects=0

American Literature 1945-1975

British Literature III: The Romantics

Modern Art

Art of the Nonwestern World

http://sites.google.com/site/melissaelmes/Home/publications-and-papers/courses-taught/arthistoryrevisednonwesternsyllabus.doc?attredirects=0

Contemporary American Fiction

Creative Writing

Nonwestern Literature

Lewis & Tolkien

http://sites.google.com/site/melissaelmes/Home/publications-and-papers/courses-taught/lewisandtolkiensyllabus.doc?attredirects=0

Asian-American Literature

Courses: 2005-2006

Performance Literature II: 19th & 20th Century Drama in Europe and America

Contemporary American Literature

http://sites.google.com/site/melissaelmes/Home/publications-and-papers/courses-taught/ContemporaryAmericanLiterature.doc?attredirects=0

British Literature III: Romanticism

Epic Literature

Greek & Roman Art & Architecture

Women’s Literature

African-American Literature

French Literature

Shakespeare’s Latin Plays

American Literature 1865-1900

Medieval/Renaissance Art

British Literature I: Middle Ages-17th Century

Performance Literature I: Survey Ancient Drama – 17th Century European Drama

http://sites.google.com/site/melissaelmes/Home/publications-and-papers/courses-taught/PerformanceLiteratureI.doc?attredirects=0

American Literature 1900-1945

British Literature II: Victorians and Moderns

17th-19th Century Art History

Russian Prose

Literature of Genocide

Jewish-American Literature

http://sites.google.com/site/melissaelmes/Home/publications-and-papers/courses-taught/Jewishamericanlitsyllabus2006.doc?attredirects=0

Courses: 2004-2005

Epic Literature

http://sites.google.com/site/melissaelmes/Home/publications-and-papers/courses-taught/epiclit.doc?attredirects=0

Early American Literature

Women’s Literature

http://sites.google.com/site/melissaelmes/Home/publications-and-papers/courses-taught/Women%27slitsyllabus.doc?attredirects=0

Russian Literature

http://sites.google.com/site/melissaelmes/Home/publications-and-papers/courses-taught/Russianliteraturesyllabus.doc?attredirects=0

American Literature: 1865-1900

http://sites.google.com/site/melissaelmes/Home/publications-and-papers/courses-taught/AmericanLiterature1865-1915.doc?attredirects=0

African-American Literature

http://sites.google.com/site/melissaelmes/Home/publications-and-papers/courses-taught/AfricanAmericanLiterature.doc?attredirects=0

French Literature

http://sites.google.com/site/melissaelmes/Home/publications-and-papers/courses-taught/FrenchLiterature.doc?attredirects=0

American Literture 1900-1945

http://sites.google.com/site/melissaelmes/Home/publications-and-papers/courses-taught/AmericanLiterature19001945syllabus.doc?attredirects=0

British Literature I: Middle Ages-Renaissance

http://sites.google.com/site/melissaelmes/Home/publications-and-papers/courses-taught/BritishLiteratureI.doc?attredirects=0

Literature of Genocide

http://sites.google.com/site/melissaelmes/Home/publications-and-papers/courses-taught/LiteratureofGenocidesyllabus.doc?attredirects=0

Nonwestern Literature

http://sites.google.com/site/melissaelmes/Home/publications-and-papers/courses-taught/nonwesternlitsyllabus.doc?attredirects=0

American Literature 1945-1975

http://sites.google.com/site/melissaelmes/Home/publications-and-papers/courses-taught/AmericanLiterature1956-75.doc?attredirects=0

British Literature II: Victorians and Moderns

http://sites.google.com/site/melissaelmes/Home/publications-and-papers/courses-taught/CourseSyllabusbritlit2revised.doc?attredirects=0

Performance Literature I: Survey Ancient Drama- 18th Century European Drama

http://sites.google.com/site/melissaelmes/Home/publications-and-papers/courses-taught/PerformanceLiteratureI.doc?attredirects=0

AP Art History: 17th-19th century art

http://sites.google.com/site/melissaelmes/Home/publications-and-papers/courses-taught/17thto19thcenturysyllabusarthistory.doc?attredirects=0

AP Art History: Greek and Roman Art

http://sites.google.com/site/melissaelmes/Home/publications-and-papers/courses-taught/ArtHistoryGreekArtcourseoutline.doc?attredirects=0

AP Art History: Medieval/Renaissance Art

http://sites.google.com/site/melissaelmes/Home/publications-and-papers/courses-taught/ArtHistoryMedRensyllabus.doc?attredirects=0

AP Art History: Nonwestern Art

http://sites.google.com/site/melissaelmes/Home/publications-and-papers/courses-taught/arthistorynonwesternsyllabus.doc?attredirects=0

AP Art History: Modern Art

http://sites.google.com/site/melissaelmes/Home/publications-and-papers/courses-taught/ModernArtrevisedforaudit.doc?attredirects=0

French History

http://sites.google.com/site/melissaelmes/Home/publications-and-papers/courses-taught/FrenchHistory.doc?attredirects=0

Courses: 2003-2004

French I (2 sections)

http://sites.google.com/site/melissaelmes/Home/publications-and-papers/courses-taught/FrancaisIsyllabus.doc?attredirects=0

French III

http://sites.google.com/site/melissaelmes/Home/publications-and-papers/courses-taught/FrancaisIIIsyllabus.doc?attredirects=0

French IV

http://sites.google.com/site/melissaelmes/Home/publications-and-papers/courses-taught/FrancaisIV-Vsyllabus.doc?attredirects=0

French IV/AP: Sample examinations

http://sites.google.com/site/melissaelmes/Home/publications-and-papers/courses-taught/APFrenchmidterm.doc?attredirects=0

http://sites.google.com/site/melissaelmes/Home/publications-and-papers/courses-taught/APFrenchLiteraturefinal.doc?attredirects=0

http://sites.google.com/site/melissaelmes/Home/publications-and-papers/courses-taught/FrenchIV.doc?attredirects=0

Creative Writing (2 sections)

http://sites.google.com/site/melissaelmes/Home/publications-and-papers/courses-taught/CreativeWriting.doc?attredirects=0

http://sites.google.com/site/melissaelmes/Home/publications-and-papers/courses-taught/TheWritingWorkshopPortfolio.doc?attredirects=0

Russian Prose (3 sections)

http://sites.google.com/site/melissaelmes/Home/publications-and-papers/courses-taught/nonwesternlitsyllabus.doc?attredirects=0

Nonwestern Literature (3 sections)

http://sites.google.com/site/melissaelmes/Home/publications-and-papers/courses-taught/nonwesternlitsyllabus.doc?attredirects=0

Courses taught prior to 2003:

French 201-D05, Intermediate Fr I, College of William and Mary. TA, responsible for creating and implementing once-weekly discussion sessions for 16 students. 1995

French 201-D07, College of William and Mary. TA, responsible for creating and implementing once-weekly discussion sessions for 4 students. 1997

English 10, 10 honors, 11 honors, 12 – Nottoway County High School, Nottoway, VA 1997-1999

French 1-IV AP – Nottoway High School, Nottoway, VA 1997-1999

French I – R.L. Hardy Middle School, Washington, D.C. 1999-2000

French I, II, III – Kennedy High School, Richmond, VA 2000-2001

Spanish I, II – Chandler Middle School, Richmond, VA 2000-2001

French I – Henderson Middle School, Richmond, VA 2001-2002

Creative Writing – Henderson Middle School, Richmond, VA 2001-2002

French I – Binford Middle School, Richmond, VA 2001-2002

French I-AP, Spanish I-III, Latin I – The Carlbrook School, Halifax County, Virginia, 2002-2003