Faculty Expertise

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

cognitive linguistics, composition, functionalist linguistics, language as a complex adaptive system, metaphor, peer-led learning, second-language writing, writing across the curriculum, writing center pedagogy

contemporary political theory, Marxism, poststructuralism

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

Bollywood, film and television studies, film festivals, issues of race and ethnicity in film and television, Italian Americans and media, media aesthetics, media authorship, multiculturalism and pedagogy, U.S. cultural history

charity and religion, colonial Mexico, early modern Catholic world, early modern history, history, history of religion, Latin American history, urban history

20th and 21st century French and Francophone, AIDS literature, autobiography and testimony as genre, genocide against the Tutsi, genocide studies, identity politics, literary and cinematic analysis, post-genocide in Rwanda, writing of history

ancient geography & spatial theory, ancient history, Ancient history, ancient world in games & film, borderlands, classical geography, classical studies, classics, Digital Humanities, game pedagogy, game studies, Hellenistic & Roman East, imperialism, literary analysis, reception studies, roman religions, spaces of cultural contact, urban & religious topography

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

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