Faculty Expertise

18th century French literature and science, cultural theory, dance practice and philosophy, ecology of bodies in movement, French Cinema, representations of imagination, science and critical theory, semiotics of dance

20th and 21st century Latin American literature and film, cultural studies, documentary, feminist theory, gender and sexuality, Jewish studies, Latin America, literary theory, Marxist theory, memory studies, political culture, race and ethnicity, testimony

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

ancient languages and literatures, ancient myth and society, how literature and myth reflect social and religious institutions in ancient Greece and India

Cliometrics, critical race theory, Data, death, Digital and Computational Studies, Digital Humanities, Disasters, Famine, Gender and Technology, gender studies, history, immigration, Ireland, Philanthropy

anthropology, archaeology, climate and culture, climate catastrophies, environmental catastrophies, historical ecology, history, maritime cultures, medieval archaeology, North Atlantic archaeology, Scandinavian and Celtic archaeology and ethnohistory

cross-cultural differences in self-related processes (US vs. East Asia comparisons), cultural psychology, ego depletion model, meaning maintenance model, money priming, naive dialecticism, positive psychology, self-concept, self-esteem, self-regulation, social psychology, terror management theory