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Therí Pickens
Professor of English
20th and 21st century African American/Arab American literature, African American literature and cultural studies, Arab American literature and cultural studies, black feminism, cognitive impairment, disability, disability studies, gender studies, literary theory, mental health, physical impairment, spectacular fiction
Elizabeth A. Eames
Associate Professor of Anthropology
African immigrants in Maine, African markets, African studies, community engagement, cultural politics, cultural politics of Hollywood film, culturally informed financial programming, Disney animation, economic anthropology, female chieftaincies, financial literacy, gender studies, human rights, impact of ‘economic development’ programs, Lewiston + Auburn, Nigerian bureaucracies, Ondo history, Ondo Women's War, public anthropology, representations of Africa and Africans in various film industries, restorative justice, sharia compliant banking, Somali Bantu resettlement, Somalis in diaspora, Somalis in Maine, visual anthropology, West African theories of gender, Women's protests, Yoruba culture
Eden K. Osucha
Associate Professor of English
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
Katie M. Adkison
Assistant Professor of English
16th- and 17th- century English drama, 16th- and 17th- century English poetry, affect theory, critical making, digital humanities and digital archives, early modern broadside ballads, early modern literature and culture, gender and sexuality studies, historical phenomenology, history of the senses, phenomenology, print culture and history, printmaking, Renaissance politics, Shakespeare, sonnet cultures, theories of embodied voice, tragedy
Patricia S. Buck
Associate Professor of Education
anthropology of education, cultural change, cultural production theory, education in humanitarian aid policy, ethnographic approaches to education, forced migration and education, foundational studies in education, gender identity formation, narrating lives in school, post colonial studies in education