Faculty Expertise

Anglo-Norman and Anglo-Latin literature and history, Benedictine manuscript culture, Chaucer, French literary and historical connections to England, Iberian and Italian literary and historical connections to England, late medieval literary London, manuscript studies, medieval studies, Middle English language and culture, Middle English literature

early modern French literature (1500-1700), early modern medicine and midwifery, femininity, French renaissance poetry, gender, intersexuality, literary analysis, masculinity, medical and anthropological readings of literature, sex and sexuality, women writers

20th and 21st century French and Francophone, AIDS literature, autobiography and testimony as genre, genocide against the Tutsi, genocide studies, identity politics, literary and cinematic analysis, post-genocide in Rwanda, writing of history

18th century French literature and science, cultural theory, dance practice and philosophy, ecology of bodies in movement, representations of imagination, science and critical theory, semiotics of dance

19th and 20th century Iberian literatures and cultures, Asian studies, European studies, film and TV literary adaptations, Hispano-Asian studies, Iberian studies, media studies, realist novel, travel narrative, travel writing

childbirth experiences, development of meaning and purpose in life, developmental psychology, identity development, infant socioemotional development, memory development

19th century French literature, critical theory, cultural studies, Franco-American culture and identity, Franco-American history and literature, French feminist theory, French women writers of the 19th century, literature, literature as history, narrative, post-structuralist theory, race and ethnicity, representations of political and social change, women and gender studies

early American history and culture, early American literature, early American puritan conversion and narratives, Indian and English translation efforts in the 17th century, poetics, poetics, poetry, poetry, poetry and archival research

African American freedom struggle in its national and international contexts from 1900-1945, African American history, American popular front, modern African American social and intellectual and literary history and biography, modern U.S. history, New Deal labor history, U.S. labor history

African American literature and literary theory, African-American studies, American studies, and the humanities, 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