Faculty Expertise

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

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

20th century U.S. social movements, African American history, American studies, critical race theory, peace studies, tobacco in history and culture, women and gender studies

anglophone continental African and Caribbean and Canadian and some U.S. African American, anthropological analyses, critical race theory, exploring the political and cultural and social contexts of texts, indigenous Islamic and Christian religions in their African and Caribbean and American contexts, interpreting African literature by women, literatures of the African diaspora, religions of Africa and the African diaspora, theories of gender and sexualities as well as literary theories, work theorizing

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 architecture, African photography, African religious and healing practices, African studies, art and visual culture, competitive dance societies in Tanzania, contemporary African art, empowered objects in African cultures, history of African art and architecture, masculinity in contemporary African art, performative photography, Sukuma-Danish diasporas, Tanzanian art and material culture

animal studies, biopolitics, critical race studies, feminist theory, interdisciplinary research methods, practical ethics, science and technology studies, U.S. social and cultural history

applied mathematics, astrophysics, computational science, dynamo theory, fluid dynamics, magnetic reconnection, planetary atmospheric dynamics, plasma physics, spectral methods for partial differential equations, stellar interiors

Cliometrics, critical race theory, Data, death, Digital and Computational Studies, Digital Humanities, Disasters, Famine, Gender and Technology, gender studies, history, immigration, Ireland, Philanthropy

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