Faculty Expertise

film and television studies, film festival management, film festival programming, issues of race and ethnicity in film and television, media aesthetics, media authorship, media genres, multiculturalism and pedagogy, U.S. cultural history

20th and 21st century Spanish literature and culture, cultural representations of history, discourse analysis, feminist analysis, gender studies, memory studies, narrative fiction, television

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

19th and 20th century Iberian literatures and cultures, Asian studies, European studies, film and TV literary adaptations, Hispano-Asian studies, Iberian studies, media studies, realist novel, travel narrative, travel writing

cultural studies, Russian, South Slavic

biography, Charles Dickens, Dickens studies, life writing, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Victorian authorship, Victorian fiction, Victorian gender studies, Wilkie Collins

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