Faculty Expertise

9/11 literature, African American literature and literary theory, African-American studies, American studies, commodity culture and consumerism, creative writing, critical race studies, critical race theory, cultural studies, film studies, histories and theories of privacy in law, histories and theories of privacy in literature and culture, histories of U.S. race and ethnicity, law, legal studies, LGBTQ politics, literary analysis, literature, literature and law, media studies, media studies, nationalism, Nineteenth-Century American Literature, photography, poetry, post-racialism, privacy, privacy law, queer studies, racial passing, representations of disability and illness, theories of the public sphere, Twentieth-Century American Literature, U.S. literature and culture 1865 to the present, visual culture, women and gender studies

Adolescent Development, Critical consciousness, Emerging Adulthood, School contexts, Sociopolitical Development, Youth wellbeing

adolescent literacy, comparative education, public education reform, special education, teacher education

Bollywood, film and television studies, film festivals, issues of diversity equity and inclusion in pedagogy, issues of race and ethnicity in film and television, Italian Americans and media, media aesthetics, media authorship, U.S. cultural history

cross-cultural differences in self-related processes (US vs. East Asia comparisons), cultural psychology, ego depletion model, meaning in life, meaning maintenance model, money priming, naive dialecticism, positive psychology, psychology of social class, self-concept, self-esteem, self-regulation, social psychology, terror management theory