Faculty
Associate Professor of English
African American literature and culture;
The Harlem Renaissance;
American modernism;
race, gender, and modernity;
history of the novel;
literature and medicine;
literature and legal studies;
race and visual culture;
detective fiction.
Visiting Instructor
Fiction writing, especially contemporary;
creative Writing;
screenwriting and film studies;
humor writing;
the contemporary novel.
Assistant Professor of English
Nineteenth-century British literature;
economic literary criticism;
cosmopolitanism and globalization studies;
history of liberalism;
interdisciplinary studies in literature and economics, literature and the philosophy of aesthetics.
Assistant Professor of English
Eighteenth-century British literature; poetry and poetics; literary theory and criticism; modernities (early and late); psychoanalysis, particularly object-relations; therapeutic reading; pedagogy.
Associate Professor of English
American literature;
countercultures;
human rights;
literary and language theory;
violence and trauma;
literature and philosophy.
Assistant Professor of English
Creative Writing,
fiction,
post colonial literature,
southern literature,
Latin American fiction,
criticism and blogs.
Assistant Professor of English
Twentieth-century British and Irish literature;
diasporic Irish studies;
transnational modernism;
post-colonial studies;
comparative film studies;
postwar visual and popular culture;
British cultural studies;
youth subcultures;
working-class studies;
masculinity studies;
prison literature;
theories of the grotesque;
cultures of violence.
Professor of English
Ancient, medieval, and Renaissance poetry; history of poetry, including kinds of big poems; agrarian literature and georgic modes; genre studies; conjunctions of early modern literature and science; literature and the natural world.
Visiting Instructor
Poetry, especially contemporary American;
surrealist poetry and surrealist theory;
creative writing, poetry, fiction and nonfiction.
Visiting Instructor
Creative nonfiction; literary journalism; investigative journalism; fiction writing; Native American literature; Native American languages and skills preservation; experiential education.
Associate Professor of International Studies and English
Literary interactions in the Black Atlantic world, notably Africa, the Caribbean, and African America;
post-colonial and/as the post-Soviet;
comparative literature;
cultural theory;
globalization.
Visiting Instructor
Areas of Interest: Creative Writing, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Memoir, Poetry, Literary Criticism, Asian American Literature, Postcolonial Literature, Playwrighting/Performance, Race, Contemporary Fiction and Poetry
Visiting Instructor, CFD Fellow
Poetics;
20th century, ethnic and avant-garde poetry;
creative writing: poetry, fiction, non-fiction;
latin American, surrealist, border poetry.
Visting Instructor
Cultural studies and comparative literature; the politics of satire and irony; poetry and nature writing; marxist literary theory
Visiting Instructor
Contemporary fiction (short stories and novels); narrative non-fiction; the literature of early Arctic exploration; history of the American whaling industry; science fiction.
Professor of Women's and Gender Studies and English
Feminist and literary theories;
cultural studies of globalization as it intersects with nationalism, democracy, and imperialism;
"minoritized" literatures, with a transnational comparative basis in Western Europe and Asia.
Visiting Instructor
Publishing poetry, fiction, and critical and creative nonfiction;
contemporary literature;
creative writing, with an emphasis in poetry, lyric essay, and literary hybrids.
Visiting Instructor
Creative writing; fiction; screenwriting; film noir
Associate Professor of English
Creative writing, poetry and fiction;
the Chinese-American immigrant experience;
footbinding, sexuality and eroticism in Chinese culture;
women in modern China;
Chinese migrant workers and industrialization;
environmental issues;
photography.
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