Stephanie Hankinson

Courses

• Fall 2024
• Winter 2025

Personal Statement

Student/Office Hours Fall 2024:

• Fall office hours are T/Th 1:30-3pm and by appointment appointment  
  
  Note: student office hours are available in person in RSB 162 or via Zoom. Please email me to arrange Zoom meeting times. 

Arts Faculty Coordinator and Program Review Office Hours Fall 2024:

• by appointment -- please email if you need to arrange a meeting.
  
   

Fall Courses 2024

Humanities 107: Intro to Environmental Humanities (Hankinson)
(online)
"Climate Justice, Environmental Cultures, and Adaptation" 

Images: Student-led climate justice activists outside the US capitol in 2022. // Meltwater from an icecap in Norway (2023)

Why do we think of "nature" as something apart from human "culture"? How have past representations of this disconnect informed our attitudes today? How can the arts and humanities help to create and maintain a more resilient and biologically diverse world during global ecological crisis? This introduction to ecocriticism in the humanities explores these questions and a wide range of ethical & political concerns for the environment, nonhuman animals, and environmental justice.

HUM 107 meets VLPA -or- IC&S, GS, and IS degree tags

Pre-req: Placement into Eng 099/101 or higher 

Course Units: 

• Slow Violence, Catastrophe, & Natural Disaster Worldwide 
• Indigenous Cultures and Decolonizing Nature 
• Settler-Colonial Frontiers, Natural Resources, Wildness/Wilderness 
• Environmental Justice & Imagined Futures
• Global perspectives on the Anthropocene
• Animals, Plants, Agriculture, & Food Systems 
• Queering Nature, Ecocritical Feminisms, etc.
   
• Link to HUM 107 Syllabus

Course 2 and Course 3
Humanities 105: Intercultural Communication (Hankinson) 
(Two Sections - Online)
Combatting Structural Oppression & Rebalancing Power

Images: Protesters at the Standing Rock reservation in North Dakota, in defiance of the oil pipeline project. // FAVIANNA RODRIGUEZ "Migration is Beautiful" poster

This course will provide you with the tools to think critically about how you communicate. We’ll study how various social positions – such as race, gender, class, nationality, sexuality, just to name a few – shape the way we connect with others in the world. As we learn about different cultures, social movements, histories, and stories from people around the world, strong practices of intercultural communication require that we learn even more about ourselves. We will explore how structural oppression acts as a barrier to meaningful intercultural interactions. We will examine what structural oppression looks like, and develop tools to discuss it, as well as confront it.

HUM 105 meets VLPA or IC&S, COM, US Cultures, and IS degree tags.

Pre-req: Placement into Eng 098 or higher.

HUM 105 Course Units:

Intro to Globalization & Social Identities
Global Migration & Borders
Media Industries & the Culture of Capitalism
Gentrification & Race in the Pacific Northwest
Environmental Justice & Imagining the Future

Click the link below to see an earlier version of the syllabus and please email me with any questions: stephanie.hankinson@seattlecolleges.edu 

•  LINK TO HUM 105 SYLLABUS

COURSE 4: 

ENGL 101: Composition I (Hankinson) 
(Online)
Global Storytelling, Writing, and Identity

Images: Corgi chewing on a copy of Harper Lee's To Kill A Monkingbird // Borobudur Temple Complex - Java, Indonesia 

English 101, a course that explores what it means to express identity through writing, reading, and various forms of global storytelling. This quarter we'll be working together not just to increase your skills and knowledge related to reading and writing, but also to create a community where everyone learns from each other. We will be sharing our own experiences and ideas through various projects and workshops.

This course will use an interdisciplinary lens to examine how storytelling practices, largely in writing, intersect with culture and identity. We will consider how issues of class, race, sexuality, gender and nation appear in writing, how arguments are constructed and how narratives transform cultures.Through student-led writing projects the course will help you become more confident readers, stronger critical thinkers, and persuasive writers.

HUM 105 meets the Composition (Writing) requirement required for all AA/AS degrees and is required by 4-year institutions. 

Pre-req: Placement into ENGL 99/101 or higher

English 101 Course Units:

• Who are you as a writer/reader/creator?
• Obstacles to Learning 
• Personal Identity & Storytelling
• Narrative Writing & Workshops
• Genre Awareness & Analysis 
• Genre DIY Artifact Creation

Click the link below to see an earlier version of the syllabus and please email me with any questions: stephanie.hankinson@seattlecolleges.edu 

ENGL 101 SAMPLE SYLLABUS 
 

PERSONAL STATEMENT

While teaching, creating, and project managing I seek to connect people and build welcoming spaces for learning and personal growth. Above all else, I am dedicated to fostering community and expanding capacities to create social, cultural, and political equity.

I've been teaching Humanities, Drama, and English at South Seattle College since 2016 and now serve as tenured faculty. I teach a wide range of courses on global/US film, environmental humanities, intercultural communication, performance studies, interdisciplinary humanities, as well as the full suite of English composition courses (from developmental English courses through research methods). My favorite part about teaching at South is working one-on-one with our students to develop a sense of agency and ownership of intercultural communication practices, research/writing interests, and critical thinking patterns.

My primary areas of expertise are the imagination of natural disaster in 20th-century cultural productions of the American South and Caribbean, comparative black diaspora studies, and environmental aesthetics. In addition to my teaching at South I recently finished my dissertation: The Aesthetics of Catastrophe Time: Constructing Transhistorical and Artistic Archives of Disaster in Haiti and the Gulf Coast. If you are interested in discussing teaching, publication, or presentations related to my work please feel free to reach out: stephanie.hankinson@seattlecolleges.edu.

I am a founding member and contributing author to the performance critique collective: DeConstruct, DeConstruct is dedicated to intersectional analysis and peer-review of cross-disciplinary performance to foster increased equity in the arts in the Puget Sound region. I am also serving as a member of the UW Simpson Center for the Humanities Community College Advisory Board. I am the former Managing Editor and co-founder of Process: Journal of Multidisciplinary Undergraduate Scholarship. 

 

Degrees & Certificates

PhD in Literature & Culture, University of Washington, 2023; MA in English (Literature), California State University, Sacramento, 2012; Certificate in TESOL California State University, Sacramento, 2011; BA in Film Studies & English, University of California, Davis, 2009;  AA in English from Bakersfield College, 2007.