Faculty Expertise

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

experimental petrology, igneous petrology, mineralogy, rheology, silicate melts, viscosity, volcanology

comparative politics of gender African politics, democratizing states and democratizing gender power relations, gender and globalized militarization, militarizing Africa after 9/11

19th century American social and cultural history, American history, American 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

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

20th century German literature and film, discourses of masculinity in German literature, film studies, German film after 1945, German studies, humor, images of German-Polish relationships in literature film and visual arts, laughter and comedy in literature film and visual arts, laughter and comedy's relation to violence, literature in the Weimar Republic (1919-1933), media

comparative politics, ethnic conflict, Middle East politics, Moroccan politics, nationalism, state-building, state-minority relations, symbolic politics, Turkish politics