Teaching
As a teacher, I seek to draw inspiration from my community-engaged work and see each class as its own micro-community. I encourage students to not only build skills necessary for reading, writing, and research, but to also build skills necessary for living in community with others: respecting new or different perspectives, fostering a caring community atmosphere, actively responding to social problems, and ethically engaging with the world around them.
University Courses Taught
University of North Texas, 2025-Present
TPC 2700: Technical Communication (Asynchronous)
Marquette University, 2023-Present
ARSC 1953: Exploring Arts and Sciences
E1001: Foundations in Rhetoric
1955H: Honors Core Seminar | Finding Hope in Dystopic Times
2956H: Honors Seminar | Writing for Social Change: Interrogating Community Health and Wellness Advocacy through a Social Justice Lens
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2017-2023
E101: Introduction to College Writing
E102: College Writing and Research
E201: Strategies for Academic Writing
E205: Business Writing
E207: Writing for the Health Sciences
E240: Rhetoric, Writing, and Culture | Public Writing for Social Action
Innovations: Discord as an Alternative Classroom Space
I have used Discord in both in person and online classes. The accessible and asynchronous environment allows students to engage in ways that work best for them and offers space for community building, collaborative learning, and deconstruction of classroom power dynamics. This google drive folder is for university teachers to learn how to use Discord for classes and includes information on onboarding, templates, and creating community in the Discord server space. This material was originally shared in a workshop I led at the 2022 ATTW conference and then built upon at the 2023 CCCC conference. I have also written about Discord in a forthcoming publication (2025).
If you would like more information on Discord or other classroom tools, please email me: danielle.koepke@marquette.edu.