Faculty Expertise

creative writing, creative writing, literature

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 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

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

border studies, cinematic analysis, creative writing, immigration and identity, immigration and identity, Latin American culture, Latin American literature, Latin American visual arts, Latin American women’s history and cultural production, literary analysis, Mexico-U.S. border violence, photography, poetry, Southern cone women's history and cultural production, translation, trauma and post-dictatorship discourses

autoethnography, composition, feminist writing theory, memoir, peer education, social justice pedagogy, writing across the curriculum, writing assessment and curriculum design, writing centers, Writing Pedagogy

cognitive linguistics, composition, functionalist linguistics, language as a complex adaptive system, metaphor, peer-led learning, second-language writing, writing across the curriculum, writing center pedagogy

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