First Year Faculty Teaching Interests

Asale Angel-Ajani

globalization, state and political violence, Diaspora studies, feminist theory, and critical race theory

Ellen Blaney

19th- and 20th-century literature; the novel; feminist theory and gender studies; creative and expository writing

Jessica Brent

Romantic and Victorian literature; visual culture; narrative theory; film; psychoanalysis

Alejandro Cañeque

history, politics, and culture of Latin America; race and gender in Latin America; history of colonialism and imperialism; colonial discourse and postcolonial theory; the political culture of colonial Mexico and the Spanish empire

Nina Cornyetz

critical, literary and filmic theory; intellectual history; gender and sexuality; cultural studies; psychoanalytic and materialist-feminist methodologies; specialization in Japan

Mark Desiderio

early American literature; 19th-century American poetry and prose; aesthetics; word/image theory; Pragmatism

Angela Dillard

American and African-American intellectual history; critical race theory; cultural studies; conservative thought

Stephen Duncombe

media and cultural studies; history of mass media; history of consumerism; activist media and alternative culture

Gregory Erickson

20th-century American and European literature; 20th-century music; postmodernism; music and literature; Bible as literature; theology and atheism; cultural studies; television studies

June Foley

19th- and 20th-century literature; the novel; gender studies; fiction writing and memoir writing

Lisa Goldfarb

19th- and 20th-century European and American poetry and fiction; music and literature; questions of belief in literature; expository writing

Judith Greenberg

20th-century French and British literature; trauma studies, psychoanalysis; women’s studies

Karen Hornick

literature; cultural history and critical theory; feminism and gender studies; popular culture; television studies

Steve Hutkins

literature; place; travel; utopia

Patricia Lennox

Shakespeare; Elizabethan/Jacobean literature and culture; early modern women; theatre; film history; creative and critical writing

David Moore

anthropology of education, workplace culture; work reform and experiential learning; innovations in higher education

Nicole Parisier

19th- and 20th-century American literature; art and cultural history; contemporary fiction; autobiography; material culture

Kim Phillips-Fein

history of economic thought; American economic and political history; economic policy; business and labor history

Stacy Pies

poetry; American and European literature, 17th–20th centuries; narrative; psychoanalysis

George Shulman

history of European and American social thought including relevant literary works; American studies; contemporary political, psychoanalytic, and feminist theory; the Bible in Western politics and thought

Audrey Raden

transcendentalism; 19th-century American literature; nature writing; Henry James; American Puritanism; biogragraphy and autobiography

Christopher Roland Trogan

aesthetics; 20th-century German and American literature/culture; history of philosophy; philosophy of music; philosophy of law; writing philosophy

Vasu Varadhan

media, globalization, and cultural identity; international communications; women in developing countries; expository writing

Susan Weisser

19th-century British novel; autobiography; women and romantic love in literature; women and sexuality; feminism

Don White

international relations; cross-cultural studies; global history; patterns of the rise and decline of civilizations; American history; the United States since 1945; political, economic, and social thought; film; media; historical editing; critical writing; creativity and the creative process

Rebecca Wisor

modernism; women’s autobiography; war and trauma; narrative theory; feminism