Faculty

Research Interests

• Creative writing
• Journalism
• World literature
• Postcolonial novel
• Persian poetry

Teaching Interests

• Fiction
• Nonfiction

Research Interests

• Creative Writing
• Traditional and Hybrid Poetic Forms
• Contemporary and Modern Poetry
• Asian American Literature
• World Literature
• Contemporary Women Poets
• Poetry and Social Justice

Teaching Interests

• Poetry

Research Interests

• 19th-century American literature
• Existential literature
• Philosophy, psychology and film
• Religious studies

Research Interests

• 18-19th century Highland Clearances
• Environmental science
• Nature writing
• Climate change

Teaching Interests

• Fiction Writing: Novels and Stories.
• Contemporary Literature, International.
• ENG 641 Fiction Workshop, CW 450 Advanced Fiction Workshop, CW 350 Intermediate Fiction Workshop, CW 380, various

Research Interests

• Creative writing
• Poetry
• Journalism
• Human rights and literary theory
• Environmental Humanities

Teaching Interests

• Poetry
• Nonfiction

Research Interests

• Medieval literature
• classics and medieval narrative
• Chaucer
• feminist theory / queer theory
• manuscript studies
• francophone middle ages

Research Interests

• Masculinity and Gender Studies
• Postcolonial Studies
• Twentieth Century British Literature
• South Asia Studies
• Cultural Studies

Research Interests

• Ecological Justice
• Contemporary and modern poetry
• Multicultural literature
• Narrative poetry
• Contemporary Women Poets
• Working Class Literature
• Modern American Literature
• Poetry

Teaching Interests

• Poetry

Research Interests

• Creative Writing
• Fiction
• Caribbean and African American Literature
• Queer/ LGBT Literature

Research Interests

• Caribbean literature and culture
• Black studies
• Black and Caribbean women's writing
• Diaspora and migration studies
• Literary fieldwork
• Digital humanities

Research Interests

• 18th-Century British Literature
• Romanticism
• Transatlantic Studies
• Literature and Politics
• Critical Theory

Research Interests

• Creative nonfiction and poetry of place
• Science Communication/AI, Environmental Humanities/Animal Studies
• Gender and Sport Studies
• Trauma and Embodiment

Teaching Interests

• Creative Writing
• Health Humanities
• Environmental Humanities and Animal Studies
• Sustainability
• Affective Neuroscience
• Embodiment
• Trauma

Research Interests

• Italian Literature
• Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio
• Medieval Studies
• Early Modern Studies
• Pre-modern Lyric Poetry
• The Short-Story Tradition
• Authorship
• Rhetorical Discourse
• Medieval Philosophy

Teaching Interests

• Sicily in the Italian Cultural Imagination
• Rhetorical Foundations: Literary Criticism and Rhetoric from Plato to the Renaissance
• Medieval 101: Introduction to Medieval and Early Modern Studies
• Dante’s Divine Comedy
• Boccaccio’s Decameron: Love in a Time of Plague
• Why Read? Pre-modern Narrative after the Cognitive Turn (graduate class)

Research Interests

• 16^th- and 17^th-century English literature
• 16^th-century French literature
• Poetry
• Feminist theory

Research Interests

• 20th-Century and Contemporary American Literature and Culture
• Cultures of U.S. Empire
• Postcolonial Studies
• Global Cold War Studies
• Comparative Race and Ethnic Studies
• Anglophone Caribbean Literature
• Environmental Humanities

Research Interests

• 16th- and 17th-century English literature and history

Teaching Interests

• Drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries
• 17th-century poetry
• Literature and history of early European expansion into the Atlantic

Research Interests

• Animal Rights Scholarship
• Cultural & Media Studies
• Transhumanist Studies
• Feminist Theory

Research Interests

• Fiction
• Nonfiction
• LGBTQ+ literature

Research Interests

• Globalization
• Diaspora and Cultural Production
• Postcolonial Literature
• New Media & Film Studies
• Theories of Nation-State
• Contemporary Critical Theory
• Feminist and Sexuality Studies

Research Interests

• Early American Literature
• Southern Fiction
• American Humor

Research Interests

• Human Rights in Literature and Visual Culture
• Postcolonial Studies
• Critical Theory
• Feminist Theory

Teaching Interests

• Human Rights in Literature and Visual Culture

Research Interests

• 18th Century Enlightenment
• Critical Race and Gender Studies
• Black Cultural Studies
• Postcolonial Studies
• Feminist Theory

Research Interests

• American Literatures

• Ancient Literacies and the History of Writing

• New Media

• Early American Studies

• Food Studies and Rematriation

• Medical Humanities

Teaching Interests

• American Literatures (Early, 19th century, 20th century and 21st century)

• New Media

• Early American Studies

• American Captivity Narratives

• Archival Research

• Community-Engaged and Place-Based Learning

Research Interests

• Romantic and Victorian literature
• Empire
• Narrative
• Form
• Latin America
• Apocalypse

Teaching Interests

• The nineteenth-century British novel
• Forms of British imperialism
• Literature of the weird, the monstrous, and the apocalyptic

Research Interests

• Creative writing
• Biography: L. M. Montgomery, Louisa May Alcott
• Women's diaries and journals
• 19th and 20th century novels
• Comparative Literature
• Jewish American Literature

Teaching Interests

• Creative writing: Poetry, fiction, non-fiction, biography; writing for children
• The Experience of Place
• Young People's Literature
• Hybrid forms: prose poetry, sudden fiction, tales, speculative fiction
• Jewish American Humor (crosslisted with Judaic Studies)
• Family Stories

Research Interests

• Medieval Literature
• American Crime Fiction
• Comics
• Popular Fiction
• Arthurian Literature

Research Interests

• African American Literature and Culture
• 19th and 20th Century American Literature
• American Studies
• Popular Music
• Sound and Audio Culture Studies
• Race and Theories of Representation
• Digital Humanities
• Civic Engagement

Research Interests

• American Literature
• Women Writers
• Contemporary Fiction American and Global
• Nation in Literature
• Diaspora Citizenship and Belonging
• Postcolonial Theory and Literature
• Feminism

Research Interests

• Children's/adolescents' folklore
• Folklore of the supernatural
• Digital folklore

Research Interests

• Creative Writing
• Modern Literature
• Literature of the American West

Research Interests

• Seventeenth-Century British History
• Visual Culture
• Literary Studies
• Performance Studies
• Musicology

Teaching Interests

• Early Modern London: Architecture, Sound and Space
• Music and Text in 17th-Century England
• The Masque in 17th-Century England
• British Painting from Holbein to Hogarth
• Courses in English literature: The English Civil War; Restoration; Augustanism
• Graduate seminars on British art, architecture, and print culture; 17th-century English literature; early modern theatre history and dramatic theory

Clinical Interests

• Early music performance practice

Research Interests

• Queer+trans medieval literature and material culture
• Medieval manuscripts, digital humanities, media history, and digitization
• 14th- and 15th-century English literature, including Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas Hoccleve, and John Lydgate
• Information literacy and Special Collections pedagogy

Teaching Interests

• Medieval literature and culture
• Manuscript studies and the history of the book
• LGBTQ+ literature

Research Interests

• Immigration and Migration
• Humanities for Justice
• Digital Storytelling
• Digital Pathways to Community
• Community Engagement
• Afro Asian Connections
• Asian American Literature and Culture
• Asians of the Americas

Research Interests

• Creative Writing with a focus on fiction and screenwriting
• The novel
• The contemporary short story
• Writing for television
• Features

Teaching Interests

• Fiction
• Screenwriting