Faculty Expertise

Environmental Ethics, ethics, History of Modern Philosophy (esp. Moral and Political), Philosophy of Film, Political Philosophy

environmental literature and ecocriticism, film analysis and film history, genre criticism and environmental, representations of water, Russian literature and cultural history, significance of water in cultural histories, women’s film and treatments of the natural world with a primary focus on Russia, women’s writing and ecocritical issues

childhood studies, community-based research, gender and childhood, gender and parenting, gender and sexuality in the U.S., higher education and the public good, poverty and social policy, public sociology, publicly-engaged scholarship, race and class in the U.S., scholarship on community-engaged pedagogy, sociology of family, sociology of gender

18th-century studies, access, anti-racism, culture- and theory-making in unexalted contexts, feminist/queer/trans sports and movement studies, gender, pleasures, politics and practices of teaching, queer, resources, sexualities, sexuality and migration studies, sexuality studies, sports studies, trans, trans and queer studies, visual and popular culture studies, writing

20th and 21st century Spanish literature and culture, cultural representations of history, discourse analysis, feminist analysis, gender studies, memory studies, narrative fiction, television

Archaic and classical Greek religion, Greek and Roman history and religion, Greek and Roman mythology and literature, mythology, oral poetry, oral studies and gender studies, women’s history

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

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

feminist approaches to politics and television, genre studies, genre studies of conspiracy and captivity, myth and narrative in popular and political culture, mythic and narrative construction of alternative belief systems, rhetorical theory and criticism, television genres