teaching

Courses taught at UCLA and elsewhere.

Instructor of Record

  1. 2025
    IE STD 280A: Old Norse & Proto-Germanic
    University of California, Los Angeles, CA
  2. 2025, 2027
    IE STD C160/C260: Indo-European Comparative Mythology & Poetics
    University of California, Los Angeles, CA
  3. 2024–6
    LING M4/IE STD M70: Language & Evolution
    University of California, Los Angeles, CA
  4. 2024–7
    LING/IE STD M150: Introduction to Indo-European Linguistics
    University of California, Los Angeles, CA
  5. 2023
    IE STD 280A: Introduction to Gothic & Proto-Germanic
    University of California, Los Angeles, CA
  6. 2023–6
    IE STD 205: Introduction to Indo-European Phonology
    University of California, Los Angeles, CA
  7. 2021
    GREEK 16: Intensive First-Year Greek
    University of California, Los Angeles, CA
    Co-instructor Alex Roy

Teaching Assistant

  1. 2018, 2022–3
    LING 1: Introduction to the Study of Language
    University of California, Los Angeles, CA
  2. 2019, 2021–2
    LING 20: Introduction to Linguistic Analysis
    University of California, Los Angeles, CA
  3. 2019, 2021
    LING 110: Introduction to Historical Linguistics
    University of California, Los Angeles, CA

Tutoring

  1. 2013–4
    Computer Science Tutor
    Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR

Teaching interests

  • Introductory linguistics
  • Introductory phonetics & phonology
  • Introductory morphology
  • Introductory syntax
  • Historical linguistics
  • Language & evolution
  • Structure and history of English words
  • Indo-European linguistics
  • Indo-European phonology
  • Indo-European morphology
  • Indo-European syntax
  • Indo-European mythology
  • Introductory Gothic & Proto-Germanic
  • Introductory Old Norse
  • Introductory Sanskrit
  • Introductory Ancient Greek
  • Introductory Latin
  • History of the Indic Languages