Easily the worst class I have taken at my time at UCSB. The tests were unnecessarily hard and based on books that we were supposed to memorize. This class was absolutely not worth the time or effort and there was no support from the teacher. Do not take her classes.

I took her for 103LL. I failed the midterm which was the worst test ever written. Memorizing 34 page readings and having to spell the speakers name correctly out of the numerous, extensive readings is helpful how? I decided to take the class for no credit which made my life 100x better. Completely unnecessarily hard, not worth the headache.

Being graded on knowing authors based off a few giving lines from a poem or text is going to help me how?

This was an extremely difficult class for me. That said, her feedback on essays is top-tier. When you mess up, she explains exactly why, and by the end, you know precisely how to improve. Amazing and brilliant, but very intimidating. Make sure to have your TA's look at your writing before you turn it in!!

Horrible professor, does not care about her students and is extremely condescending. Class is super reading heavy, midterm and final were about super specific things so if you don't do the readings, goodluck. Laughs at you for making dumb questions and will also call you out for checking your phone, so beware. Don't take this class.

Worst English class I've ever taken! The instructions and grading criteria for both the writing assignments and quizzes were extremely unclear and subjective, and I honestly think I came out of the class a worse writer than I went in. I also felt that the teaching staff was disorganized and condescending when I asked for help.

ENGL37 is a new class so grading was super easy, readings in retrospect weren't necessary bc they covered the important stuff in lecture. VERY boring though, lectures were hr +15 but felt like 2 hrs. TA Kelsey Cooper was amazing!!! midterm and final were easy, a couple essay questions and several IDs with a bank

This class was one of the hardest English classes I've ever taken. She gave little to no examples of what she wanted from students in their writing and yet graded very harshly. Literally the entire class failed the first writing assignment and yet there was no help. Do NOT take this prof if you can avoid it. Very nice but an extremely hard grader.

I found her lectures to be really scattered/not cohesive. Her expectations for papers and close readings are super unrealistic and I feel that she makes the TA's grade students papers too harshly.

I am an English major and this class was unnecessarily difficult... unrealistic expectations when it comes to writing. Prof is condescending to students and I dreaded going to class and asking for help. Her whole thing was wanting students to become better writers, I am not a better writer, just a more insecure one. DON'T TAKE THIS PROF!

I enjoyed the material covered in this class, but the professor had ridiculously high standards for students and graded extremely harshly. I went to her for help with every single step of my final paper and she approved everything, and then I got a low grade on the paper. She can be a bit condescending and seems to forget students are people too.

I respect her passion for the topics and appreciate the discussions we have in lecture but the class is just insanely difficult. Im a STEM major but I know English majors in the class saying its too difficult. Just obscenely high standards for writing.