Faculty Expertise

19th century American social and cultural history, American history, American studies

Appalachian and New Zealand tectonics, bedrock geology, geochronology, geographic information systems (GIS), geologic mapping, landscape evolution, plate tectonics, structural geology, White Mountain (NH) geologic history

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

acting, acting on film, arts education, collaboration, contemporary American drama, directing, Fitzmaurice Voicework, improvisation, Michael Chekhov Technique, performing arts as individual and cultural expression, public speaking, Shakespeare, stage combat, theater and film, voice and speech training for actors

college access and persistence, community and parent engagement, community organizing, education organizing, education reform, educational equity, higher education, portraiture, race and class in rural communities, rural communities and schools, rural education

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

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