Rhetoric, dialogic approaches to teacher response and the effect of electronic environments on teachers’ and students’ writing
Political rhetoric, children’s literature, and composition theory
Early Modern literature and culture, Milton, relationship between literary texts, history, and other cultural phenomena
British literature and culture of the long eighteenth century, Bluestocking feminism, queer historiography, Jane Austen, sociability and material culture, and eighteenth-century Shakespearean editing
Applications of the philosophy of Michel Foucault to education
Composition, drama, and the cultural roles of popular genre
Poetry
Postmodern fiction
Contemporary and African-American Literature
Modern and post-modern literature, issues involving social and economic disparities, deviance, and the American criminal justice system
Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century theatre, theatre history, performance theory, Shakespeare in performance, dramaturgy
Epistolary fiction, Newgate/sensation novels, the governess novel, and contemporary fiction
Teaching of writing, popular culture, Beat Generation writers
Environmentalism and food, economics and consumerism, and philosophies of living
Psychology of deceit in politics, sports, academia, and the entertainment industry
Cultural studies, science fiction, apocalyptic narratives, and the representation of race and gender in literature and film
African American poetry and poetics, African Americans artists in Paris, jazz in African American culture, and the conception of love, sexuality, and family as political ideals by black writers
Victorian literature, the novel, literary theory, and the connections between literature and philosophy
Group dynamics, patriotism, teaching of writing
Creative writing (fiction and memoir), artist colonies, art funding, organ (liver) transplantation, ethical issues and patient perspective, homosexuality and literature, AIDS and literature
Literary theory, especially queer theory
Latin American cinema, transnational cinema, short films, Auteur and star studies, metafiction/metafilm, 20th century Latin American fiction
Politics and aesthetics of prose narrative, service learning theory, and charter school pedagogy
American literature, culture studies, and gender studies, with a particular emphasis on the construction of sexuality in nineteenth-century American women’s literature
Creation of the self in writing and the exploration of how writing unlocks the inner psyche
Urban culture, European and Canadian cinema, film noir, modernism, Dante, Roman literature, and the novel
British, American, and world literature, postmodernism, literary theory, psychoanalysis, genre studies and the memoir
The tradition and language of nonviolent resistance movements
Modernist fiction, literature by Modernist and contemporary women writers, and feminist literary theory
British romanticism; emotion and affect theory; theories of matter and materiality; history of science; the imagination; science and literature
Renaissance literature, Shakespeare
Twentieth-century American and British literature, the intellectual history of modernism and its relation to the visual arts, contemporary lyrical and experimental poetry
Medieval literature, 15th century British drama, classical rhetoric, composition theory, and the “literature of food”
Students’ movement into academic discourse conventions, research literacy, and faculty mentoring