Teaching Experience

I have over ten years of experience as an instructor of record and teacher in academic institutions and professional organizations, including small liberal arts colleges and large state research universities. At the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, my teaching interests are currently focused on developing hands-on learning opportunities for students to engage with objects from the past. Students in my Medieval Culture course pursue the history of medieval Europe from birth to death, approaching the major events of the premodern lifecourse and its material culture through the lenses of religion and gender. Activities include close-reading of primary and scholarly texts as well as immersive workshops with medieval objects such as investigating the university library’s fifteenth-century Book of Hours and writing with oak-gall ink on parchment with quill pens. Themes of my broader survey courses include: global trade and exchange, environmental literacy, religious conversion and conflict, and premodern race and gender with an emphasis on the everyday lives of both women and men in the premodern world.

Fall 2021 HIST213/ENVS 215 Global Environmental History students learning about the history of the Grasse River on the campus of St Lawrence University

As a visiting assistant professor in European history at St. Lawrence University, I taught introductory survey courses on the medieval and early modern worlds, environmental history, and European studies from Plato to NATO. My specialized discussion-based seminars focused on themes in global history as well as the premodern world such as the history of water and society, the Black Death, and the Vikings, all using interdisciplinary, visual, and material evidence in variety of hybrid, in-person, and online modalities. These courses challenged students to create replicas of historical objects using original research, to master skills in research and writing, and to find history in the everyday through the study of visual and material culture.

Prof. Twomey’s students in the History core survey class Modern History II: Race & Religion in the Atlantic World visit an exhibition the McMullen Museum of Art at Boston College in Fall 2018

At Boston College I taught classes in both halves of the university core survey courses: on medieval and early modern Europe 1000–1800 AD focusing on the economic, religious, and cultural exchange of objects between Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas; and the modern history of the Atlantic World 1800 AD to the present, focusing on race and religion. While completing my Ph.D. at Boston College, I was a teaching assistant for introductory courses in European and American history and have also taught specialized digital skills in photogrammetry in an advanced undergraduate course on the material history of Boston. I also have years of experience in individualized undergraduate tutoring and writing instruction, museum & archives, secondary education, and public history as a former seasonal national park ranger and historical tour guide.

assistant professor in medieval European history, the university of Nebraska-Lincoln

2023–pres

History of the Middle Ages

Vikings

Medieval Culture

Visiting Assistant Professor of European History, St. Lawrence University

2018–2023

Prof. Twomey (left) and her Summer 2021 students from HIST 4018 Vikings at St Lawrence University reenacting a viking funeral that they researched, designed, and performed with replica grave goods. Photo by Tara Freeman.

Introduction to European Studies

Global Environmental History

Medieval Europe

Early Modern Europe: Renaissance and Reformation

The Black Death

Vikings: Raiders, Traders, and Enslavers

Romans and Barbarians

Visiting Assistant Professor, Boston College

2017–18

Conversion and Conflict in the Medieval and Early Modern World: Modern History I

Race and Religion in the Atlantic World: Modern History II

Lab Instructor in Digital Humanities, Boston College

Spring 2017

History Down the Toilet: Reconstructing the Lived Experience of Boston’s North End c. 1670 – c. 1890

Teaching Assistant, Boston College

2011–16

Atlantic Worlds I: Development of a Global Economy 1348–1789

Atlantic Worlds II: Race, Religion, & the Struggle for Democracy 1789–2016

Modern History I: Globalization and Material Culture

Making of the Modern World II: Connections and Comparisons

Europe in the World I: Medieval & Early Modern Worlds 1100–1750

Modern History II: Europe and the World

Teaching assistant, Phillips Academy summer session, Andover, MA

2011

World History

Economics

Historical Tour Development & Guide, Boston College Office of International Programs

2014–17

The Coming of the American Revolution; Slavery & Civil War on Beacon Hill; Victorian Art & Architecture of Back Bay (Boston, MA)

2014

Propaganda & Politics of Late Roman Ravenna (Ravenna, Italy)

private Tutoring

2013–14

Active Minds Tutoring, Newton, MA, Tutor in History and English Literature

2011–14

Boston College Learning Resources for Student Athletes, Tutor in History