Faculty Expertise

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

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

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

automaticity of lexical and semantic processing, bilingual memory representation, cognitive psychology, effects of implicit processing on preferences, object and scene recognition, object perception

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

Chinese and comparative literature, Ming-Qing dynasty fiction (1368 to 1911)

alternative writing and politics, area studies in the Middle East and China, political philosophy and theory, Politics and Literature, politics of landscape, politics of place

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

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

autoethnography, composition, feminist writing theory, memoir, peer education, social justice pedagogy, writing across the curriculum, writing assessment and curriculum design, writing centers, Writing Pedagogy