Faculty Expertise

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

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

ancient Greek and Roman culture, Ancient slavery, ancient street culture, ancient theories of disgust, cultural studies, feminist theory, gender, history, memory studies, Roman comedy and theater, Roman invective, Roman satire, urban theory, women and gender studies

feminist approaches to politics and television, genre studies, genre studies of conspiracy and captivity, myth and narrative in popular and political culture, mythic and narrative construction of alternative belief systems, rhetorical theory and criticism, television genres

audiovisual art, digital and electronic music, experimental film, experimental music, feminist science and technology studies, media histories, media studies, sound art, sound studies, video art

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

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

community economies, diverse livelihood practice, ecological politics, economic anthropology, economic geography, feminist political economy, Marxian political economy, new materialist & actor network theory, political economy, political theory, post-capitalist community & economic development, poststructuralist political theory, regional community & economic development, regional development & environmental politics in Maine

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

empirical philosophy, feminist philosophy, implicit associations, inclusion, moral philosophy, moral psychology, moral theory