Experience in Teaching: Front Row of My Record
Invited Guest Lectures
1. United States
University of California, Santa Barbara – Santa Barbara, CA
→Spring Quarter 2024: Prof. Norah Dunbar, COMM 111, Nonverbal Communication. Invited lecture: “The Ignored Dimension: The Space-Touch Continuum”.
–Student Feedback:
- “SO compelling, engaging, energetic, using real life examples. just do more lectures in our class”.
→Spring Quarter 2024: Lect. Nikki Truscelli’s, COMM 1 Introduction to Communication. Invited Lecture: “Nonverbal Communication: An Inter-Dimensional Portal to an Ignored Reality”.
–Student Feedback:
- “Alan was engaging, incredibly knowledgeable, and interesting.”
- “There’s nothing I would enhance from today’s. The way the TA presented himself and spoke was great”
- “I found the presenting style of the lecturer the most compelling because it was engaging and informative at the same time. The lecture flew by and i feel like I really understood the concepts presented.”
→Winter Quarter 2024: Prof. Andy Merolla’s COMM 111 Nonverbal Communication. Invited Lecture: “A Cruise in the River of Kinesics, Study of Visible Body cues: Gestures and Postures”.
–Student Feedback:
- “One of the best lectures I have seen in my time at UCSB.”
- “Amazing TA, Amazing presenter. Very insightful. Has very strong opinions but backs them up with strong evidence and explanation. Very little cultural and language barrier despite Argentinian background. I hope he can be a Comm Professor at some point. I think he would make an amazing introductory Comm Prof and obviously teach Upper Divs with his own research on Nonverbal Communication…very lively and keeps students engaged, that’s what keeps people desirous and successful in a major like this. Keep him around.”
- “Incredibly passionate and engaging. I have a tendency to zone out during lectures sometimes but this one I was invested in. There are always some of those lectures where you’re looking at the clock waiting to get released from the lecture hall, but this wasn’t the case at all. Instead, I wanted to stay there and keep listening.”
- “I loved Alan’s lecture! It was super fun and engaging and interesting! Such a good lecturer—good at balancing witty jokes with the main concepts of the course material!”
- “It was incredible. Alan was a well informed and captivaging lecturer. I throughly enjoy listening to him that day.”