Faculty Expertise

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

Brazil, critical ethnography, cultural studies, cultural studies, curating, curatorial studies, death, digital humanities, food and culture, Francophone, gender and race, Haiti, material culture, performance studies, performance studies, public humanities, visual culture

border studies, cinematic analysis, creative writing, immigration and identity, immigration and identity, Integration of humanistic and natural science pedagogical approaches, Latin American culture, Latin American intellectual inquiry on coloniality, Latin American literature, Latin American literatures and cultures of the 19th- 21st centuries, Latin American Photography and Social Art, Latin American visual arts, Latin American women's literatures and feminist inquiry, Latin American women’s history and cultural production, Latinx poetry and translation, literary analysis, Mexico-U.S. border violence, photography, poetry, Southern cone women's history and cultural production, translation, trauma and post-dictatorship discourses

19th century French literature, critical theory, cultural studies, Franco-American culture and identity, Franco-American history and literature, French feminist theory, French women writers of the 19th century, literature, literature as history, narrative, post-structuralist theory, race and ethnicity, representations of political and social change, women and gender studies