First Year Faculty Teaching Interests

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

Hannah Gurman

history and culture of US foreign relations; the cold war; history and theory of international conflict; twentieth-century American literature and film; political rhetoric


Amy Huber

twentieth-century American literature; the novel; the literature and culture of modernity; photography; critical theory; psychoanalysis; gender and queer theory


Robert Huddleston

19th- and 20th- century literature; history and theory of poetry; philosophy and literature; intersections of romanticism and modernism; translation studies; autobiographical writing

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

Patricia Lennox

Shakespeare studies and performance; Elizabethan/Jacobean literature and culture; early modern women; theatre and film history; fashion; mythology, ancient and modern

Andrew Libby

18th- and 19th-century Romantic poetry; critical and literary theory; social and political theory; queer/gender studies; object relations/psychoanalysis

Ritty Lukose

gender, globalization, colonial, postcolonial and diasporic modernities; youth, education, development, mass media; feminisms, South Asia and its diasporas; political, cultural and social theory

Patrick McCreery

sexual politics; childhood; family life; urban studies; American studies

José Perillán

history of science; physics; writing

René Francisco Poitevin

urbanism; race and ethnicity in the US; grassroots organizing; 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

Laurin Raiken

comparative social and 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; comparative religion

Morgan Schulz

writing as rhetoric; autobiographical fiction; TESOL through film and theater; myth as language; phenomenological approach to literature

Matthew Stanley

history of science and technology; science and religion; physics and astronomy; philosophy of science; history and philosophy of religion, mind and consciousness; science education; peace and war

Yevgeniya Traps

19th- and 20th-century 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

Alejandro Velasco

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

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

Susan Weisser

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