Faculty Expertise

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

applied mathematics, mathematical biology, mathematical ecology, mathematical epidemiology

atomic and molecular collisions and spectroscopy, chemical physics, musical acoustics, renewable energy

20th and 21st century French and Francophone, AIDS literature, autobiography and testimony as genre, genocide against the Tutsi, genocide studies, identity politics, literary and cinematic analysis, post-genocide in Rwanda, writing of history

20th century U.S. social movements, African American history, American studies, black feminism, critical race theory, cultural studies, gender studies, health justice, history of commodities, peace studies, Social Movements, tobacco in history and culture, women and gender studies

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

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

Chicanx and Latinx studies, climate change studies, environmental anthropology, environmental justice/climate justice, feminist studies, Indigenous studies, political ecology, postcolonial studies, science and technology studies

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