First Year Faculty Teaching Interests
Gene Cittadino
history of science and medicine; environmental history; science, technology, and society; history of ecology and evolutionary biology
Nina Cornyetz
critical, literary and filmic theory; intellectual history; gender and sexuality; cultural studies; psychoanalytic and materialist-feminist methodologies; specialization in Japan
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
Judith Greenberg
20th-century French and British literature; trauma studies, psychoanalysis; women’s studies; Holocaust studies
Daniel Hoffman-Schwartz
comparative Romanticism; literature and philosophy; critical theory; film and media studies
Karen Hornick
literature; cultural history and critical theory; feminism and gender studies; popular culture; television 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
Kimberly Lewis
20th century European literature; literary theory; World War II and 20th century politics; the novel, theory of the novel; postwar European and American film
Andrew Libby
18th- and 19th-century Romantic poetry; critical and literary theory; social and political theory
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
Patrick McCreery
sexual politics; childhood; family life; urban studies; American studies
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
René Francisco Poitevin
urbanism; race and ethnicity in the US; grassroots organizing; and geographical information systems (GIS)
Millery Polyné
19th and 20th century African American and Caribbean Intellectual History; Haitian history; U.S. foreign policy in Caribbean; jazz; hip hop aesthetic; race and sports; film and propaganda
Beata Potocki
20th century literature; literature and politics; literary theory; the novel; political philosophy
Catherine Siemann
19th- and 20th-century British and American literature and culture; law and literature; the fantastic; feminist and gender studies
Alycia Smith-Howard
Shakespeare studies; performance history, directing, dramaturgy, acting; feminist theatre aesthetics and practice; gender and sexuality studies; modern American drama; 19th- and 20th-century drama; literature and drama of the American South
Yevgeniya Traps
19th and 20th literature; literary and cultural theory; aesthetic theories; literature and psychology
Christopher Trogan
aesthetics; 20th-century German and American literature/culture; history of philosophy; philosophy of music; philosophy of law; writing philosophy
Jenelle Troxell
modernism; visual and literary avant-gardes; visual art and media theory; psychoanalysis; feminist, gender, and sexuality studies
Eugene Vidrin
20th-century poetry and poetics; modernism and the avant-garde; 20th-century art history, criticism, and theory; art historiography; film history and theory
Lauren Walsh
20th-century literature; media and cultural studies; memory studies; visual culture; contemporary fiction
Susan Weisser
19th-century British novel; autobiography; women and romantic love in literature; women and sexuality; feminism