First Year Faculty Teaching Interests

Sinan Antoon

pre-modern Arabo-Islamic culture; classical and modern Arabic poetry; the Arabic novel; gender and sexuality; postcolonial theory; contemporary Arab culture and politics

Ellen Blaney

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

Manu Chander

British Romantic literature and culture; multicultural and postcolonial literatures; 19th- and 20th-century aesthetic theory; contemporary American poetry

Michael Dinwiddie

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

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; fiction writing, memoir writing and writing for young readers

Cori L. Gabbard

20th-century British literature; medieval literature, especially Celtic; feminism; women and war

Judith Greenberg

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

Steve Hutkins

literature; place; travel; utopia; writing

Scott Korb

essay writing; memoir; creative non-fiction; religious writing; belief and popular culture; faith and politics; ethics; Civil War; reform movements; slavery and slave narratives

Jennifer Lemberg

late 19th- and 20th-century American literature; gender; trauma; Holocaust studies; American Indian literature; ethnic literature

Patricia Lennox

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

Bradley Lewis

cultural studies of bioscience, medicine, and psychiatry; disability studies, science studies; cultural and representational theory; medical humanities; psychoanalysis

Justin Lorts

African American history; American political and cultural history; popular culture; civil rights and social movements; comedy

Eve Meltzer

contemporary art, theory, and criticism; psychoanalytic, structuralist and post-structuralist thought; photography; discourses on materiality and material culture; theories of information; rhetorics of digitality; phenomenology

Nicole Parisier

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

Kim Phillips-Fein

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

René Francisco Poitevin

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

Joseph Rezek

18th- and 19th-century British and American literature; black Atlantic literature; history of slavery; the novel; material culture; history of the book; gay and lesbian studies

Andrea Scott

modern and contemporary poetics; cold war culture; comparative intellectual history; translation studies; European and American modernism

Catherine Siemann

19th- and 20th-century British and American literature and culture; law and literature; the fantastic; feminist and gender studies

Christopher Trogan

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

Benedick Turner

19th-century British literature; medieval literature and medievalism; masculinity studies; the scientific method; psychology; evolutionary science; science fiction; painting and literature; expository writing pedagogy

Alejandro Velasco

modern Latin American history, culture, and politics; democratization and social movement theory; urban studies; historical and ethnographic methods

Susan Weisser

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

Rebecca Wisor

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