First Year Faculty Teaching Interests

Pamela Burger

poetry and poetics; gender and sexuality studies; American literature and culture; popular culture; gothic narrative; psychoanalysis

Jaime Cleland

20th century American literature; ethnicity, especially Asian American and Jewish American; autobiography; the novel; the 1950s

Mark Desiderio

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

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

James Hatch

Romantic poetry; theories of emotion; pastoral; 18th-century theories of language; 20th-century American and British poetry

Karen Hornick

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

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

Megan Obourn

American literature; multiculturalism and liberalism in U.S. political discourse; theorization of citizenship; Marxism; psychoanalysis; and critical race theory

Alison Perry

ethnic and third world literature, particularly contemporary African-American women’s literature and the Harlem Renaissance; trauma studies; urban feminist geography

Stacy Pies

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

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

Penny Vlagopoulos

20th-century American literature and film; African American studies; cultural studies; race and gender theory; radical cultures and politics

Stephen Wetta

19th- and 20th-century American literature; southern American literature; 19th-century Russian literature; Bakhtinian criticism

Rebecca Wisor

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