Her creative writing courses offer students a chance to discover and expand their creative potential, and facilitate the exchange of writing and ideas both in class and through monthly open mike readings and the publication of UHCL's literary journal, Bayousphere. In literature courses, she guides students in the addition of theoretical lenses of gender studies, postcolonial theory, and psychoanalytic criticism to their critical toolboxes, empowering them to understand literary study as an integral part of the examined life.