Anna is a PhD student in the Department of Near Eastern Languages
and Civilizations. Her research focuses on the archaeology of Bronze Age Turkey, with specific interests in landscapes, movement, and daily life. While at the University of Chicago, Anna has served as a teaching assistant for various courses in the NELC department and as a Writing Intern in the Humanities Core. Anna is looking forward to helping post-doctoral and graduate student instructors develop inclusive and active student-focused classrooms.
Anne Monique Pace
Teaching Consultant
Anne Monique is a PhD candidate in Music History and Theory at the University of Chicago. She received her BA in 2017 from Columbia University, where she studied Music, English Literature, and Creative Writing with an emphasis on constructions of gender, race, and sexuality in performance. Her dissertation will focus on commedia dell’arte figures in theater, opera, and ballet at the turn of the 20th century, probing the intersections of clowns/clowning and changing conceptions of the human subject. She is a lyric coloratura soprano and dances Argentine tango.
Betty Kim
Teaching Consultant
Betty Kim is an MFA candidate in the Department of Visual Arts focusing on photography, textiles, and mixed media. She has experience teaching photography to adults and seniors online and in person. And while most of her background has been in civil service and arts administration, she has enjoyed mentoring college students for over a decade. Betty looks forward to collaborating and learning with other graduate students to develop their teaching pedagogy style.
Christina Filippaki
Teaching Consultant
Christina is a PhD candidate at the Department of Classics, specializing in Ancient Greek tragedy. Her research focuses on intertextuality, fictionality, myth, and metatheatre in Euripides. She has served as a TA and the instructor of record for beginners and intermediate Ancient Greek and Latin courses at the University of Chicago. She has also taught language and literature courses in elementary schools and high schools in Greece, Belgium, and England and she has taught Modern Greek as a second language to adults in Greece and the United States.
Darren Kusar
Teaching Consultant
Darren is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures with a focus on early modern Italian literature. His research interests include early modern poetry, opera, voice studies, Renaissance demonology, phenomenology, and wonder tales. In his dissertation, Image, Voice, Text: Staging the Diabolical in Early Modern Italian Opera, he examines the production and reception of visually and aurally staged diabolical characters in a culture obsessed with spiritual threats. As an instructor of record, Darren has taught numerous Italian language courses and a self-designed course on early modern Italian epic poetry and opera. He has also served as a CA in both the Italian and Music departments.
Emily Silver
Teaching Consultant
Emily is a PhD student in the Integrative Neuroscience Program at the University of Chicago. She is a member of the Social Psychophysiology and Neuroendocrinology Lab where her research focuses on behavioral and psychophysiological responses to early life stress. Outside of the lab, Emily loves to volunteer at Comer Children's Hospital, play IM soccer, and explore new Chicago neighborhoods.
Heather Glenny
Teaching Consultant
Heather is a PhD candidate in the Department of English focusing on pedagogy, materiality of the human body, and the aesthetics of medicine. As an educator, she is passionate about engaging generative porosity between a student’s in-classroom and out-of-classroom worlds, building student trust, and empowering students to take risks. Heather is excited to share what she has learned from teaching at college and K-12 levels, a BA Honors in Education from Stanford, MA in Art & Museum Studies with a focus on Museum Education from Georgetown, and professional experience as a museum educator from the Smithsonian to Yosemite National Park. She looks forward to learning with and from her fellow graduate students as a Teaching Consultant this year.
Lauren Peterson
Teaching Consultant
Lauren (she/her) is a PhD Candidate in the Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice. She enjoys working and teaching in interdisciplinary spaces and holds master's degrees in public health and social work and a bachelor's degree in public policy. Prior to returning to graduate school, Lauren worked as a policy analyst for international and federal government agencies. Outside of school, she enjoys exploring Chicago neighborhoods and spending as much time as possible outdoors.
Maggie Sandholm
Teaching Consultant
Maggie is a PhD student in the Department of Philosophy. Her research focuses on the nature of self-consciousness. She has served as a teaching assistant for various courses in Philosophy of Mind and Ethics, and was awarded the Wayne C. Booth Graduate Student Prize for Excellence in Teaching in 2022. Maggie enjoys sharing the excitement of philosophy with her students and cultivating a positive and inclusive classroom in which they feel excited and empowered to learn. She looks forward to working with fellow educators on how to implement collaborative and student-centered learning practices.
Yue Deng
Teaching Consultant
Yue is a PhD candidate in Paleobiology who studies the dynamics of two clam groups waxing and waning over 400 million years’ history. With their own research motivated by strong affection for the critters, Yue teaches Evolutionary Biology and Earth Sciences as interpretations of data guided by intertwining cultural and societal influences instead of stone-cold facts. Yue has served as an instructorial TA for Evolution since sophomore year of college, as well as for Environmental History of the Earth, Ecology, and Ancient Greek for shorter periods. Committed to enhance learning experience for undergrads university-wide, Yue hopes to ignite more conversation on teaching practices through teaching consultation.
