Eliza Steinbock
Eliza Steinbock

Teaching


I have been an educator of university level students since 2005. Below you can read about my classroom philosophy and look at the courses that I’ve developed and had the pleasure of teaching.

Philosophy

I believe the classroom is a workshop for rethinking the world. My teaching philosophy consists in finding ways to create an environment and supply the tools that enable students to question fundamental categories of knowledge, such as primary differences of gender, ethnicity, or what can be considered culture. This emphasis on critically examining conceptual categories as they impact on the worlds we live in and move through shapes my pedagogical choices. Gaining awareness of the history, context, and usage of a concept is where my teaching and research both begin; this process is central to stimulating one’s intellectual curiosity in rethinking the world.

Using concepts to explore the world around us directs me to be not only aware of the diversity in the classroom, but also enables me to be flexible and mobile in terms of disciplinary orientation. It guides me to the makers, users, and propagators of concepts: to the social world of ideas, and to the people who live there. In this sense, my approach to cultural production and various modes of mediation (film, television, art, performance), through concepts involves an examination of how knowledge becomes socially embedded. In sum, I seek to teach people how concepts travel and manifest in diverse cultural practices so that they may become lifelong critical thinkers.

Teaching areas

  • Gender & Sexuality in the Film and Literary Studies Department of Leiden University
  • Cultural Studies in the Literature and Art Department of Maastricht University
  • Art History in the Humanities Faculty of the Amsterdam University College
  • Film Studies in the Media Studies Department of the University of Amsterdam

I also regularly supervise MA and BA thesis in these areas.

Artivism
– taught Fall 2018. Undergraduate course at University of Leiden
Film Studies course 2018

Documentary Film
– taught Spring 2018. Undergraduate course at University of Leiden
Film Studies course 2018

Gender and Diversity: New Approaches in Critical and Cultural Theory
– taught Spring 2018 Graduate course at University of Leiden
Literary Studies course 2018

Introduction to Gender Studies
– taught Fall 2018. Undergraduate course at Leiden University College
Gender & Sexuality course 2018

What is a Human? Critical Gender and Diversity Approaches
– taught spring 2018. Undergraduate course at University of Leiden
Gender & Sexuality course 2018

Expanded Cinema
– taught Fall 2017. Undergraduate course at University of Leiden.
Film Studies course 2017

Film Journeys: The World on Screen
– taught Spring 2017. Undergraduate course at University of Leiden
Film Studies course 2017

Contemporary Visions of Gender and Sexuality
– taught Spring 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019. Upper level undergraduate course at the University of Leiden
Gender & Sexuality course 2016-2019

Cinema: Avant-Garde
– taught Fall 2016. Upper level undergraduate course at the University of Leiden
Film Studies course 2016

Histories of Gender and Sexuality in Society and Culture
– taught Fall 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018. Upper level undergraduate course at the University of Leiden
Gender & Sexuality course 2015-2018

Voyeurism and Exhibitionism: Gender in Visual Culture
– taught Spring 2015. Upper level undergraduate course at the University of Leiden
Gender & Sexuality course 2015

Cultural Studies II: Visual Cultures
– designed and taught Spring 2014. Upper level undergraduate course at the University College Maastricht. (The syllabus is available on request.)
Cultural Studies course 2014

Pop Songs & Poetry: Theory and Analysis
– taught Fall 2014. Lower level undergraduate course at the University College Maastricht
Cultural Studies course 2014

Cultural Remembrances in Postcolonial Literature and Film
– taught Spring 2013 & Spring 2014. Upper level undergraduate course at the University College Maastricht
Cultural Studies course 2013-2014

Literature, the Arts, Culture: Theory and Methods
– taught Spring 2013 & Spring 2014. Final year undergraduate skills course at the Faculty of Art and Social Science, Maastricht University
Cultural Studies course 2013-2014

Research Skills in Media Culture
– taught Spring 2013 & Spring 2014. Final year undergraduate skills course at the Faculty of Art and Social Science, Maastricht University
Cultural Studies course 2013-2014

Cultural Studies I: Doing Cultural Studies
– taught Spring 2012 & 2013. Lower level undergraduate course at the University College Maastricht
Cultural Studies course 2012-2013

Cultural Studies II: Reading Contemporary Culture
– taught Spring 2012 & 2013. Upper level undergraduate course at the University College Maastricht
Cultural Studies course 2012-2013

Cultural Diversity in a Globalizing World
– taught Fall 2012 & Fall 2013. Upper level undergraduate course at the University College Maastricht
Cultural Studies course 2012

Great Novels: 1850 – Present
– taught Spring 2012. Lower level undergraduate course at the University College Maastricht
Cultural Studies course 2012

Art and the Subject
– designed and taught Spring 2011 & Fall 2011. Upper level undergraduate course at the Amsterdam University College. (The syllabus is available on request.)
Art History course 2011

Michel Foucault: Bio-power, Aesthetics, Critique, Ethics
– designed and taught Fall 2011. Graduate master course at the department of Artistic Research, Royal Academy of Arts, The Hague
? course 2011

Academic English I
– taught Fall 2010, Spring 2011 & Fall 2011. Lower level undergraduate skills course at the Amsterdam University College
Art History course 2010-2011

On Pornography: Sexuality, Politics, Genre
– designed and taught Fall 2008. Undergraduate thesis course at the Media Studies department, University of Amsterdam. (The syllabus is available on request.)
Film Studies course 2008