Faculty Expertise

art and culture, collaboration, contemporary performance practices, dance, performance and live art, performing arts as individual and cultural expression

Brazil, critical ethnography, cultural studies, cultural studies, curating, curatorial studies, death, food and culture, Francophone, gender and race, Haiti, loss, material culture, performance studies, performance studies, visual culture

contemporary American drama, directing, film, playwriting, theater, theater and film in central Europe

composition and music theory, contemporary and 20th century music theory, contemporary performance practice, Japanese court music

20th century American music, African American music, American studies, critical race theory, cultural studies, historical musicology, jazz studies, popular music studies

choreographed performance, choreography, collaborative creative processes, dance and digital technologies, dance in cross disciplinary collaboration, dance-science collaboration, documentaries on choreographers’ creative processes, documentary video editing, e-learning and dance, improvistational performance, mediated performance, multi-media representation of dance knowledge, postmodern dance performance

18th-century studies, access, anti-racism, culture- and theory-making in unexalted contexts, feminist/queer/trans sports and movement studies, gender, pleasures, politics and practices of teaching, queer, resources, sexualities, sexuality and migration studies, sexuality studies, sports studies, trans, trans and queer studies, visual and popular culture studies, writing

20th and 21st century Spanish literature and culture, cultural representations of history, discourse analysis, feminist analysis, gender studies, memory studies, narrative fiction, television

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

archaeology, arctic/subarctic, co-production of knowledge, decolonizing practices, feminist archaeology, gender, indigenous archaeology