Pedagogy Lab Fellows

Feminist Studies Modules Fellows

Our Winter/Spring 2026 fellowship brings together four UC Santa Barbara graduate students to redesign and update a suite of interactive open learning modules. These modules teach core concepts central to the humanities and social sciences: gender, whiteness, intersectionality, empire, the gaze, and related frameworks. Our fellows will collaborate to translate complex theoretical frameworks into accessible and engaging content for early undergraduate learners, creating public, open educational resources that can be shared and reused beyond the classroom.

Corinne Tam

Saide Singh

Maisnam Arnapal

Mahtab Joghrati

Dystopian Games Fellows

Our two Dystopian Games fellows (2025—present) are developing interactive, text-based games in Twine that help students engage deeply with speculative and dystopian stories. The games and accompanying teaching materials will turn literary study into a participatory, justice-oriented experience, offering students not only interpretive insight but a space to experiment, build narrative agency, and imagine otherwise. All materials will be openly licensed and shared for reuse, remixing, and adaptation.

The Dystopian Games project is supported in part through an Automating Black Joy grant from the Black Communication & Technology Lab.

Bryant Taylor

Nioshi Shah

Audio Shorts Fellows

From 2021—2023, the Pedagogy Lab hosted three cohorts of fellows to create open educational resource (OER) audio shorts. These audio shorts blend guided meditation, storytelling, oral history, and podcast, leading listeners through sensory experiences, introducing theories and concepts, and reflecting on aspects of Black, brown, and queer existence. You can listen to the audio shorts in our OER Commons library.