Faculty Expertise

contemporary theater and productions in Hungary; Poland; Czech Republic; Slovakia, post-1989 central European drama and productions, vocal health and pedagogy, voice abuse prevention, voice and speech training for actors, voice and speech training for professional voice users

contemporary American drama, directing, film, playwriting, theater, theater and film in central Europe

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

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

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

American culture, competition, cultural sociology, economic sociology, European Union, institutionalist theory, international political economy, international trade, nationalism and nation states, political sociology

contemporary political theory, Marxism, poststructuralism

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