I have taught English department courses ranging from literature and North American Studies to second language acquisition research methodologies along with writing courses, both academic and creative. I am a flexible, resourceful university teacher, and have often taken on classes that a department has needed to be covered on a short notice.
I am committed to doing my very best to help students. I believe in learning-oriented teaching, where students are asked to actively process information, and in formative assessment, which means, for example, giving students constructive feedback to help them see what they have done well and where they may need to do more work.
I have completed 32 credits of university pedagogical studies (Basic Studies and two courses of Intermediate studies) at the University of Turku Faculty of Education. This taught me a lot about planning effective, student-centered lectures and group sessions.
Since August 2023, I work as University Lecturer at the University of Eastern Finland (English Language and Culture, School of Humanities). I also worked at UEF in 2020-2021, when I taught a variety of literature courses, like Anglophone Literatures tutorials for first-year students, and lectured on 19th and 20th century American literature. I also taught optional courses related to my own research, an American Studies introduction and three different academic writing courses for English majors & minor students.
In the past, I have done a lot of teaching at my alma mater, Department of English, University of Turku. In 1/2022-7/2023, I was employed as a substitute University Lecturer, and I taught a variety of basic and advanced level literature courses and academic writing.
Earlier, in fall 2017, I taught the Literature Master’s Thesis seminar and Academic Reading and Writing for first year English students. I was also the substitute coordinator of the North American Studies program where I taught a course called Crossing the Atlantic and helped students complete independent studies and assignments.
In 2015, I taught Creative Writing in English for English department students, and in 2014, I taught academic writing and wrapped up a couple of other courses.
In fall 2021, I taught at English courses at Lund University in Sweden. I worked on a course on English in Society, on an academic writing course, a BA thesis seminar course for teacher training students, and a second language acquisition course, along with popular science workshops for doctoral candidates in medical fields. These were all team-taught courses, which was interesting
In the fall semester 2019, I taught courses at Luleå University of Technology for their English and Education students. I taught second language acquisition research methodologies on two different courses and spoken and written proficiency to pre-service teachers of classes 4-6. I supervised a few essays that used educational research methods. I also taught Academic Writing in English for new doctoral candidates, who worked in fields ranging from machine learning to mathematics teacher education.