Faculty Expertise

Bollywood, film and television studies, film festivals, issues of diversity equity and inclusion in pedagogy, issues of race and ethnicity in film and television, Italian Americans and media, media aesthetics, media authorship, U.S. cultural history

19th and 20th century Iberian literatures and cultures, Asian studies, European studies, film and TV literary adaptations, Hispano-Asian studies, Iberian studies, media studies, realist novel, travel narrative, travel writing

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

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

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

contemporary German literature and film, East-Central European literature and film, film adaptation, German literature and culture since the 19th century, German literature and film, intercultural literature and film, literatures and cultures of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, poetry, Romanian-German literature, spatial constructions in literature and film

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