Asale Angel-Ajani

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

Ann Axtmann

performance studies (dance, movement, transcultural); movement analysis; Native American and Latino/a Studies; cultural studies and the body; interdisciplinary arts

Victoria Blythe

English literature; law and literature; critical theory; genre studies

Carrie Brewer

combat for stage and screen; gender studies in martial history; movement in performance, acting and voice production

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

Bettina Carbonell

American literature; American studies; literature and philosophy; ethics and aesthetics; critical theory; literature and the visual arts; museum studies

Pedro Cristiani

fiction screenwriting and directing; universal mythology in audiovisual storytelling; feature film; television; filmmaking tools as part of the narrative paradigm

Michael Dinwiddie

African American culture; theatre history and criticism; filmmaking; dramatic writing; ragtime music

Jordana Dym

colonial through 19th-century Latin American urban and political history; Atlantic history; travel writing and cartography

June Foley

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

Donna Goodman

art; architecture; philosophy; film; visionary theories; technology; urban and environmental studies

Nettie Jones

20-century fact, fiction, and fictionalized writing; creative cross-cultural cruising

Bert Katz

studio art; photography; contemporary art thought; histories of visual art and artist’s training

Patrick McCreery

American studies; queer theory; cultural studies; urban studies; family life

Bella Mirabella

Shakespeare; Dante; English, Italian and Renaissance literature; drama and culture; ancient drama; women and performance; feminism and gender studies; critical writing

Sara Murphy

comparative studies in 19th- and 20th-century literature and culture; women’s writing; gender theory; psychoanalysis; literature and political theory

René Francisco Poitevin

urbanism; race and ethnicity in the US; grassroots organizing; and geographical information systems (GIS)

Laurin Raiken

cultural history; sociology of the arts; analysis of American social, political, and economic institutions; political economy of art, artists, and cultural institutions; arts professions and artists’ careers; arts services; arts management and cultural policy; Native American culture

Pat Rock

Shakespeare; medieval and Renaissance studies; Greek philosophy and literature

Barnaby Ruhe

visual art; art criticism; art history; art and anthropology; art and psychology; shamanism; history of warfare and revolution

Antonio Rutigliano

Greek, Roman and medieval literature; semiotics; romance languages; theories of adult learning; comparative history; French and Italian cinema; medieval and Renaissance art history

Philip Sanders

electronic arts; interactive multimedia; computer animation

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

Alycia Smith-Howard

Shakespeare studies; performance studies, directing, dramaturgy, acting; feminist theatre aesthetics and practice; gender and sexuality studies; modern American drama; adaptation and intercultural Theatre practice; 19th- and 20th-century drama, literature and culture; literature and drama of the American South

Susan Weisser

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