She is the best literature professor on campus! She is so intelligent and funny. Her style of teaching is a meeting of minds. She gives everyone a chance to participate in the conversation. She wants you to understand the material and think outside the box. There isn't much work outside of reading, critical thinking and one term paper.

There was no prerequisite for this class, but there should have been. She was always having side conversations with students in Portuguese, leaving everyone else feeling disadvantaged and left out. Also we had to buy a textbook but never used it. She knows her stuff but can make you feel out of place if you don't have background knowledge already

She is amazing! Very brilliant and knowledgable. She assigns interesting and meaningful texts. Her classes are best if taken without a TA. She grades on content, and nothing else. If you attend class and listen to everything she talks about, you will learn tons of very interesting things not only about Literature, but about the world.

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On her syllabus she notes: "You will get out what you put into this class." This is very true; she is extremely intelligent and she knows her literature. Take this class only if you are willing to put time and effort, 8 full texts were assigned for the quarter. And pay attention to her trippy terms.

She does not have planned lectures, that means no slides or powerpoint. Just an overhead and a pen and she lectures off the top of her head BUT she has written books about the topics she teaches so she is well informed, however she gives too much background information about the author, and not enough about the text.