Teaching
In April 2016, UTSC’s student journal The Underground named Andrea Professor of the Year (Arts, Language, and Literature) based on nominations submitted by her students.
Teaching
Awards for Excellence
In 2019 I was delighted to receive one of three UTSC Teaching Awards awarded at the Assistant Professor level, and in 2020 I was honoured to be named recipient of the University of Toronto’s Early Career Teaching Award for “exceptional commitment to student learning, pedagogical engagement, and teaching innovation.”
I am profoundly grateful to have the chance to integrate my research interests in Health Humanities into the undergraduate classroom, especially in ways that my students find valuable. If you’re curious about the intersection of the creative arts and humanities with health studies, I hope you’ll consider taking one of my courses or signing up for Canada’s first Minor Program in Health Humanities

Courses
Current Offerings
My undergraduate teaching in the University of Toronto Scarborough’s Department of Health & Society includes my Health Humanities cluster: Introduction to Health Humanities, The Human-Animal Interface, Aging and the Arts (course blog), Toronto’s Stories of Health and Illness (course blog), and Methods in Arts-Based Health Research. All these courses are part of Canada’s first undergraduate program in Health Humanities, which I supervise at the University of Toronto Scarborough. I also teach graduate courses in the University of Toronto’s English Department, including “Aging and Older Age in the 19th-Century Novel,” “Public Health Stories: Writing Illness in Nineteenth-Century Britain,” and “Literature and Medicine: Corpus, Theory, Praxis.”