{"id":217,"date":"2026-03-08T01:56:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T01:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/cnn\/?page_id=217"},"modified":"2026-04-14T17:14:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T17:14:15","slug":"teaching","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cherylnaruse.com\/index.php\/teaching\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Teaching<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>I teach courses on Asian diasporic and Asian American literature, anglophone literatures from Asia and the Pacific Islands, postcolonial theory, and literary theory. I have won teaching awards at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. I strive to create a classroom dynamic where students learn from each other as peer intellectuals and, ideally, find the process of learning together fun.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-background has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-dabee477 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;background-color:#d5cece;padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--x-small);padding-right:3%;padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--x-small);padding-left:3%\">\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\" style=\"margin-bottom:0;line-height:1.5\">If you are a student seeking a letter of recommendation,<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"margin-top:5px;margin-bottom:0\"><a href=\"mailto:cnaruse@tulane.edu\" data-type=\"mailto\" data-id=\"mailto:cnaruse@tulane.edu\">Send me an email<\/a>, detailing:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul style=\"margin-right:0;margin-left:0;padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--small);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--small)\" class=\"wp-block-list has-x-small-font-size\">\n<li>the programs to which you are applying<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-x-small-font-size\">some of the papers you have written in my classes<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>your resume<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>a draft of your personal statement\/statement of purpose<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>a sense of what strengths you think my letter should speak to<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-x-small-font-size\" style=\"margin-top:14px;margin-bottom:0\"><strong>PLEASE NOTE:<\/strong> if you are applying for graduate school, medical school, or law school, it is best if you are making the request based on taking an upper division course with me.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"margin-bottom:0\">Some courses I have offered:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The Cold War; or, the Hot Wars in Asia<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Postcolonial Theory<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Race, Empires, Asian America<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Asian Diasporic Literatures<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Global Asia and Anglophone Literature<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Literatures of Tourism<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teaching I teach courses on Asian diasporic and Asian American literature, anglophone literatures from Asia and the Pacific Islands, postcolonial theory, and literary theory. I have won teaching awards at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. I strive to create a classroom dynamic where students learn from each other as peer intellectuals and, ideally, find [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-217","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cherylnaruse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cherylnaruse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cherylnaruse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherylnaruse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherylnaruse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cherylnaruse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":424,"href":"https:\/\/cherylnaruse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/217\/revisions\/424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cherylnaruse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}