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

autoethnography, composition, feminist writing theory, memoir, peer education, social justice pedagogy, writing across the curriculum, writing assessment and curriculum design, writing centers, Writing Pedagogy

contemporary political theory, Marxism, poststructuralism

early American history and culture, early American literature, early American puritan conversion and narratives, Indian and English translation efforts in the 17th century, poetics, poetics, poetry, poetry, poetry and archival research

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

African American freedom struggle in its national and international contexts from 1900-1945, African American history, American popular front, modern African American social and intellectual and literary history and biography, modern U.S. history, New Deal labor history, U.S. labor history

atmospheric deposition, biogeochemsitry, culture of and participation in science, ecosystem ecology, environmental science, limnology, paleorecords of environmental change, soils

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