Faculty Expertise

archival research, chinese language pedagogy, cultural studies, dramatic literature, late imperial China, literature and history, manuscript studies, material culture, performance studies, popular culture, vernacular literatures of East Asia

20th century American music, African American music, American studies, critical race theory, cultural studies, historical musicology, jazz studies, popular music studies

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

Chicana/o History, immigration, Labor History, Latin American, Latinx Studies, US-Mexico Borderlands

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

African American culture, African Americans in France, African-American studies, American cultural studies, American religious history, American religious studies, cultural studies

African American literary studies, African-American studies, American studies, critical race theory, cultural studies, film studies, LGBTQ issues in film and literature, literary and rhetorical criticism, popular culture studies, queer theory and studies, race and Hollywood film

African Diaspora Studies, African-American studies, American cultural studies, American studies, Black Panther Party, black power, blackness, critical theory, cultural studies, race, race and science, racism, radical pedagogy, white nationalism, white supremacy, whiteness

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