As an English major at Rice, Natalie spends her days inside novels, poems, and plays — unpacking everything from narrative voice in Toni Morrison to meter in Shakespeare's sonnets. She teaches students to build interpretive arguments by grounding every claim in specific textual evidence, a skill tha...

Reading a novel for class and actually analyzing it are two very different skills — one requires attention, the other requires a framework. Patricia teaches students to identify how literary devices like symbolism, unreliable narration, and structural choices shape meaning, then turn those observati...

Reading literature through an analytical lens — identifying motifs, unpacking symbolism, tracing how an author builds a thematic argument — is a skill that transfers across every discipline. Nivedina approaches literary analysis the way she approaches scientific research: by teaching students to bui...

The IB program exposed Kinjal to literature from across the globe — postcolonial novels, philosophical essays, poetry traditions outside the Western canon — and she learned to analyze texts through multiple cultural lenses. That breadth shows up in how she teaches close reading, thesis construction,...

Hamza approaches literature as a puzzle not unlike the data analysis he does in bioinformatics — identifying patterns, tracing motifs, and building an interpretation from textual evidence. Whether a student is unpacking symbolism in a novel or constructing a thesis about a poem's structure, he teach...

Reading literature well means learning to ask the right questions — why an author chose a particular narrator, how imagery builds a theme, what a character's contradictions reveal. Kennedy pairs her experience teaching writing and speech-related coursework with close-reading techniques that move stu...

I am most passionate about biology and chemistry. I am a firm proponent of education, believing it to be absolutely necessary for an improved quality of life, and I try to impart this appreciation to all of my students.

An avid reader herself, Siyu digs into literary analysis by teaching students how to trace motifs, unpack symbolism, and build arguments about a text's deeper meaning. Her arts background at NYU sharpens the way she approaches close reading — connecting authorial choices in diction and structure to ...

Close reading is where literature clicks — noticing how a shift in narrative voice or a recurring image reshapes the meaning of an entire text. Kenan's background in AP English Literature and his analytical training in economics give him a sharp eye for argument and structure in everything from Shak...

Reading a novel closely is surprisingly similar to solving an engineering problem: both require pulling apart a system to see how its pieces interact. Mackenzie teaches students to trace how literary devices like symbolism, motif, and narrative structure build meaning across a text. She's especially...