Faculty Expertise

diasporas, foreign refugees and the birth of modern humanitarianism since the 17th century (1685-1950), history and memory, history of the British Empire, humanitarianism and the development of rights claims, imperial Britain, modern Britain since 1688, sexual slander and defamation law, slavery and anti-slavery

anti-viral host cell defense systems, biochemistry, enzymology and enzyme kinetics, mammalian protein synthesis (translation), molecular virology, nucleic acid chemistry and structure, picornavirus replication, protein purification and characterization, ubiquitin-mediated cellular proteolysis

anti-oxidants and radical scavengers, bio-organic chemistry, carbohydrate chemistry, chemical synthesis, organic chemistry, spectroscopy

18th-century studies, access, anti-racism, culture- and theory-making in unexalted contexts, feminist/queer/trans sports and movement studies, gender, pleasures, politics and practices of teaching, queer, resources, sexualities, sexuality and migration studies, sexuality studies, sports studies, trans, trans and queer studies, visual and popular culture studies, writing

collage and appropriation of archival texts, composition site in progress, early American history and culture, early American literature, early American puritan conversion and narratives, form and function in occasional poems, Indian and English translation efforts in the 17th century, massive open online poetry, poetic historiographies, poetic historiography, poetics, poetics, poetry, poetry, poetry and archival research, pop-spiritual Americana, rhetoric of King Philip’s war

alternative writing and politics, area studies in the Middle East and China, political philosophy and theory, Politics and Literature, politics of landscape, politics of place

Archaic and classical Greek religion, Greek and Roman history and religion, Greek and Roman mythology and literature, mythology, oral poetry, oral studies and gender studies, women’s history

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

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