TEACHING EXPERIENCE


Christine Henseler teaches classes in Spanish on contemporary Spanish language, literature, culture and digital media. In English, she teaches courses on Millennials and social change, Generation X, media culture and literacy, remix culture, the Arts & Humanities and the Liberal Arts. She has team-taught with faculty from across the college, in particular with colleagues from the Computer Science Department on topics pertaining to new media, social networking and video games. She has also developed several multidisciplinary courses taught by faculty across campus, including the Humanities Super Seminar and "Entrepreneurship and Digital Media," a course generously supported by Michael Rapaport, Union alum of '59. Prof. Henseler is fluent in Spanish, German and English.

Union College

Courses taught in Spanish
  • Digital Storytelling in the Hispanic World (to be taught)
  • The Spanish Movida: Explosive Youth Culture of the 1970s and '80s 
  • Hispanic Literature in the Digital Age (Spring 2018)
  • Social Media in the Hispanic World (Honors Thesis topic)
  • Rebels with a Cause: Contemporary Spanish Youth Culture (1975-2010) 
  • Spanish Mutant Fictioneers: Of Mutants, Media Mutations and Mutations in Fiction
  • Fiction 2.0: Networks of Contemporary Spanish Narrative
  • Avant-Pop: Spanish Narrative of the Twenty-First Century
  • Video Clip Literature, E-mail Novels, and Telephone Texts: Spanish Narrative and Technology of the Twenty-first Century
  • Virtual Embodiments: Video Games, Video Clips and Reality TV in Contemporary Spanish Narrative
  • Music Videos and Reality Television in Contemporary Spanish Literature
  • Commercial Contamination: Politics of Contemporary Spanish Literature
  • Pop, Punk, and Rock & Roll: Spanish Generation X Writers of the 1990s
  • Open Your Eyes: Spanish Culture Through Film Since 1929 
  • Senior Project: Spanish Women Writers of the Post-Franco
  • PeriodSenior Project: Spanish Literature and the Visual Arts
  • Introduction to Spanish and Spanish American Literature
  • Survey of Spanish Peninsular Literature II 
  • Spanish American Short Stories of the 1990s
  • Contemporary Spanish Theatre
  • Advanced Spanish Composition
  • Intermediate Spanish I, II, III
  • Elementary Spanish I, II, III 
 
Courses taught in English
  • Millennials and Social Change
  • Transformative Partnerships with the Arts and Humanities 
  • Rethink: Reimagining Local and Global Communities
  • Critical Issues Facing Hispanic Millennials (in development)
  • Entrepreneurship & Digital Media 
  • Humanities Super Seminar
Spring 2012: Global Activism: Hacking, Leaking, and Whistleblowing
Spring 2013: In Your Face: The Self in the Digital Age
Spring 2014: The Arts & Humanities in Health and Healing
Spring 2015: Humans vs. Zombies: Humanistic and Scientific Reflections on the Apocalypse
Spring 2017: Street Smarts: The Future of Urban Living
Spring 2018: Alexander Hamilton

  • Global Remix Culture - Sophomore Research Seminar 
  • Generation X: Global Youth Culture in Fiction and Film 
  • Digital Games for Social Change (co-taught with Kristina Striegnitz, Computer Science)
  • Identity and Technology in a Media-Saturated World (co-taught with Valerie Barr, Computer Science)
  • Generation X Worldwide: Tales of Accelerated Cultures
  • From Shakespeare to Eminem and The Sims: Just Another Writing Class?
  • Networks of Narrative: Tech Texts and the Arts of Storytelling
  • Chicana Writers & Visual Artists
  • Visions and Voices: Chicana Icons From Myth to Matter
  • From Virgin to Sex Goddess: Re-envisioning the Chicana Experience Through Art and Literature


Middlebury College (Summer 2005 - Visiting Assistant Professor)
Courses taught:
  • Pop, Punk and Rock and Roll: Music and Media in Contemporary Spanish Literature (Graduate Course)
  • Literary Analysis (graduate course)

Cornell University (Fall 2004 - Visiting Assistant Professor)
Courses taught:
  • Virtual Embodiments: The Spanish and Latin American Novel from the 1990s and the Twenty-first Century (undergraduate/graduate course)
  • From Virgin to Sex Goddess: Re-Envisioning the Chicana Experience (Freshman Writing Seminar)

SUNY Fredonia (1999-2001 - Assistant Professor)
Joint tenure track appointment in the Dept. of Modern Languages & Literatures and Women's Studies.


Spanish Mutant Fictioneers: Of Mutants, Media Mutations and Mutations in Fiction (SPN 306 - Fall 2011)

In this course students worked on a class Ning site, wrote critical blogs (see below) analyzing the work of Agustín Fernández Mallo, Alberto Olmos, and Doménico Chiappe, and developed and wrote digital storytelling projects through Google Maps, such as this one:

Student Blogs:
http://samkim626.blogspot.com/
http://smartinez23.blogspot.com/
http://epetts8.blogspot.com/
http://bkoller.blogspot.com/
http://earnesteric.blogspot.com
http://cassandraskouf.blogspot.com/
SPRING 2018
MILLENNIALS AND SOCIAL CHANGE

​Students in this class will self-publish a book and give proceeds to one or more changemakers of their choice.

The Humanities Super Seminar

Global Remix Culture

Generation X: Global Youth Culture in Fiction and Film
Student Video Projects created in the Generation X class
Breaking Through Walls: A Montage of the History of Generation X in Graffiti in Argentina

Final Video project created by Team "Las Chicas" -- Emily Pettengill, Caroline Friedman, Tori Bailey, and Gabrielle Tantillo

Generation X: Children of the Disappeared
Final Video project created by Team "Retro" -- Kathryn Long, Maylin Paveltic, and John Moran

Generation X Children's Loss of Innocence
by Union College Scholar student Lindsey Hunt
Generation X Graffiti
 Union College Scholar student Erika Steuer