Teaching
I have enjoyed the opportunity to teach a wide variety of courses at Brown University and Mount Holyoke College and draw on my interdisciplinary interests in Gender and Sexuality Studies and Critical Race Theory in my teaching.
Some courses I have designed and taught at Mount Holyoke College include: “Cyberpunk in Asia,” “World Literature and the Nobel Prize,” “Screening Global Anglophone Literature: Who Writes the World?” and “The Yellow Robot: Race, Fembots, and Sexuality” as well as introductory survey courses such as “Intro to Literature.”
Sample syllabi and teaching evaluations are available upon request.
Please browse some of the projects produced by my students and in collaboration with the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum below.
Teaching Projects
“Cyberpunk in Asia” Virtual Exhibition
Done in collaboration with the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum. In my English course titled, "Cyberpunk in Asia," we examine why the modern genre of cyberpunk dystopias has often been associated with Asian cities, neon signs, and crowded bustling streets. Viewing films such as Blade Runner and reading novels including Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, we interrogate how historical and economic forces have shaped the way the future is imagined and why the place of that reckoning resonates with Asia today. Given that visual imagery is central to the themes of our course—which even has its own Instagram account—it seemed natural to collaborate with the Art Museum on campus.
Cyberpunk in Asia Instagram Account
For the “Cyberpunk in Asia” course, I started an Instagram page for students which they managed on their own, curating a collection of visual archive to denote “cyberpunk dystopias.”
In Conversation with MHC Art Museum
Jerrine Tan and Associate Director for Engagement and Weatherbie Curator of Academic Programs Ellen Alvord discuss works of art featured in Professor Tan's Spring 2020 course: "English 217: Cyberpunk in Asia."
In Conversation with MHC Art Museum
Jerrine Tan and Associate Director for Engagement and Weatherbie Curator of Academic Programs Ellen Alvord discuss works of art featured in Professor Tan's Spring 2020 course: "English 392: World Literature and the Nobel Prize."