Faculty Expertise

border studies, cinematic analysis, creative writing, immigration and identity, immigration and identity, Integration of humanistic and natural science pedagogical approaches, Latin American culture, Latin American intellectual inquiry on coloniality, Latin American literature, Latin American literatures and cultures of the 19th- 21st centuries, Latin American Photography and Social Art, Latin American visual arts, Latin American women's literatures and feminist inquiry, Latin American women’s history and cultural production, Latinx poetry and translation, literary analysis, Mexico-U.S. border violence, photography, poetry, Southern cone women's history and cultural production, translation, trauma and post-dictatorship discourses

comparative politics, Immigrant and Diaspora studies, immigrant/diaspora-home country political and economic engagement, immigration and democracy, immigration and economic development, Latin American Politics, Mexico, Political violence

Chicana/o History, immigration, Labor History, Latin American, Latinx Studies, US-Mexico Borderlands

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

civil war, comparative politics, Conflict, ethnicity, international relations, security, terrorism

20th century German literature and film, discourses of masculinity in German literature, film studies, German film after 1945, German studies, humor, images of German-Polish relationships in literature film and visual arts, laughter and comedy in literature film and visual arts, laughter and comedy's relation to violence, literature in the Weimar Republic (1919-1933), media

charity and religion, colonial Mexico, early modern Catholic world, early modern history, history, history of religion, Latin American history, urban history

American political development, American political parties, American political theory, elections, political institutions, U.S. Congress

contemporary landscape photography, German photography, historic and contemporary photography studies, new topographics (1970s and1980s), photographic image-making