Faculty Expertise

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

cultural studies, Russian, South Slavic

construction of national identity categories, construction of racial and ethnic identity categories, cultural anthropology, development, nationalism, politics of culture, postcolonial studies, social anthropology, the Caribbean region and African diaspora, transnationalism, underdevelopment

adolescent literacy, adolescent multiliteracies, autism, autism spectrum across the lifespan, early childhood, Early Head Start, public education reform, standards-based education

animal studies, biopolitics, critical race studies, feminist theory, interdisciplinary research methods, practical ethics, science and technology studies, U.S. social and cultural history

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

African immigrants in Maine, African markets, African studies, community engagement, cultural politics, cultural politics of Hollywood film, culturally informed financial programming, Disney animation, economic anthropology, female chieftaincies, financial literacy, gender studies, human rights, impact of ‘economic development’ programs, Lewiston + Auburn, Nigerian bureaucracies, Ondo history, Ondo Women's War, public anthropology, representations of Africa and Africans in various film industries, restorative justice, sharia compliant banking, Somali Bantu resettlement, Somalis in diaspora, Somalis in Maine, visual anthropology, West African theories of gender, Women's protests, Yoruba culture

economic well being of China’s ethnic minorities, gender wage differentials, interactions of rural migrants and urban residents, labor force participation patterns of China’s rural and urban elders, labor market developments in China, labor market developments in China, relationship between co-residency with adult children and the happiness of Chinese elders, resume audit studies of Chinese firms’ hiring decisions

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

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