Teaching Spotlights are Q&A style profiles of UChicago faculty and instructors discussing thoughtful and innovative teaching methods. If you would like to suggest a faculty member or instructor for inclusion in the series, please contact Amanda M. Jungels (amanda.jungels@uchicago.edu).
Teaching Spotlights
Russell P. Johnson is Assistant Director of the Undergraduate Religious Studies Program and Core Sequence in the University of Chicago Divinity School and a CCTL Associate Pedagogy Fellow. His teaching includes courses on nonviolent direct action, argumentation and epistemology, and religion and film, and he has taught courses such as “Villains: Evil in Philosophy, Religion, and Film,” “Truth, Half-Truth, and Post-Truth,” “Star Wars and Religion.” He has contributed an essay, “First Impressions: Expectations and Tone in Syllabus Construction” to the CCTL column Teaching Matters, and “On ChatGPT: A Letter to My Students” to the Divinity School digital magazine Sightings.
Lisa Rosen is an Associate Senior Instructional Professor and Associate Director of the Committee on Education and a CCTL Associate Pedagogy Fellow. She teaches graduate and undergraduate courses that focus on the changing role of schooling in society, including “Schooling and Social Inequality,” “Schooling and Identity,” and “Beyond the Culture Wars: Social Movements and the Politics of Education.”
Hoyt Long is a Professor of Japanese Literature and East Asian Languages and Civilizations, and is Chair of the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations. His teaching and research focus on modern Japan, with specific interests in the history of media and communication, cultural analytics, platform studies, the sociology of literature, book history, and environmental history. He teaches courses such as “Introduction to Cultural Analytics,” “Readings in World Literature,” “The Modern Japanese Novel,” and “Platforming Culture in East Asia: From Newspapers to Web 2.0.”