You have reached the web home of S.C. Gooch.
I am currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at Purdue University.
My work addresses marginal spaces and borders in South American literature and history, Victorian and twentieth-century British literature, and travel narratives through tourism theory, postcolonial theory, and cultural anthropology.
My other scholarly interests include comics and sequential art, theater, film, and digital humanities and culture, especially open content/access/source projects.
I’m also a founding member of the Purdue Sequential Art Narratives reading, discussion and pedagogy collective.
In my free time I’m an instructor at Purdue. I currently teach World Literature for the Comparative Literature program and work as a tutor in Purdue’s Writing Lab. I have taught English 106 First-Year Composition under the auspices of the award winning Introductory Composition at Purdue program. They try to do some pretty cool stuff – you can check out the basics of what they try to teach students for yourself.
You can also check out the syllabuses of my First-Year Composition classes (Fall 07, Spring 08, Fall 08, Spring 09, Fall 09, Spring 10, Summer 10, and Fall 10) and read about why and how I teach, if you’re so inclined.
I can be reached at sgooch [at] the university I mentioned I attend [dot] edu
