Faculty Expertise

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

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

artist educators, arts education, assessment and standards in k-12, creativity studies, curriculum, drawing and painting, instruction, practice based visual and performing arts, practice-based curriculum and instruction, studio art, studio praxis, teacher education, teacher leadership, teacher leadership and development, visual ar

ceramic facility development and organization, creation of ceramic art works with drawn and painted surfaces for exhibition, exhibition planning and negotiation, glaze chemistry testing and development, ornamentation and pattern, Photoshop, portfolio development, soda firing technology, studio practice, studio practice, studio set up and organization, surface design as applied to three-dimensional objects, two-dimensional design in drawing and painting, visual history of ceramics and decorative Chinese and Japanese arts, visual history of ceramics and decorative Hispano-Moresque arts, visual history of ceramics and decorative Iznik and Greek arts

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

environmental literature and ecocriticism, film analysis and film history, genre criticism and environmental, representations of water, Russian literature and cultural history, significance of water in cultural histories, women’s film and treatments of the natural world with a primary focus on Russia, women’s writing and ecocritical issues

art, art and popular culture, art history, drawing, modern and contemporary art, painting, printmaking, studio art, visual art

18th century French literature and science, cultural theory, dance practice and philosophy, ecology of bodies in movement, representations of imagination, science and critical theory, semiotics of dance