Eric Toler
Program Manager, North Spencer Residential College & Senior Academic Advisor, Lloyd International Honors College
UNCG Alumnus, 2018; 2020
About eric
Eric B. Toler (he/him/they/them) is Program Manager and Senior Academic Advisor of North Spencer Residential College in Lloyd International Honors College. Eric earned his Master of Arts and Bachelor of Arts degrees in Women’s and Gender Studies at UNC Greensboro. He has worked with the Honors College since 2018, when he joined as a graduate assistant and joined the Honors Ensemble full-time in 2020. Eric regularly teaches courses in the Honors College and in the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at UNCG.
In his role with the Honors College, Eric maintains student data and information, advises Honors & Residential College students, oversees the Honors Ambassadors, teaches Honors courses, and coordinates programming in North Spencer Residential College. Eric is passionate about providing support to students and empowering them to take control of their educational experiences.
Education
- M.A. Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, UNC Greensboro
- B.A. Women’s and Gender Studies, UNC Greensboro
academic interests and Courses Taught
Eric’s academic research interests primarily center education, queer theory, critical pedagogy, necropolitics, feminism, and community building. In the classroom, Eric cultivates an active, supportive, community-based environment in which students spend time learning and discussing material before applying it through creative exercises together. Eric’s teaching emphasizes student empowerment, critical community building, and pedgogical transparency.
teaching interests
- research and writing
- LGBTQ history & queer theory
- necropolitics
- critical freedom studies
- feminism & feminist theory
courses taught
- The Scholar’s Voice: Scholarly Research, Writing, and Making Meaning in Today’s World
- The Scholar’s Mindset: A First-Year Introduction to Scholarly Research and Writing
- Dreaming the World Differently: Theory and Activism as Generative Practices
- (Re)Imagining Freedom: Personhood, Human Rights, and the Perils of Inclusion
- LGBTQ History and Theory
- Introduction to Women’s and Gender Studies (WGS 250)
- Introduction to LGBTQI Studies (WGS 270)
- Honors Colloquium (HSS 198)