Research Interests
Research Interests
Historical Periods
Ancient/Medieval
Specific expertise in this topic is listed in parentheses.
- Christopher Baswell (Cultural Imagination of Disability in the Middle Ages; Multilingualism of Medieval France and England)
- Rachel Eisendrath
- Eugene Petracca (The Long Reach of Greco-Roman Antiquity; Late-Medieval Poetry; Dante and Chaucer)
Renaissance/ Early Modern
Specific expertise in this topic is listed in parentheses.
- Rachel Eisendrath (English Renaissance Poetry)
- Achsah Guibbory (17th Century Literatures and Culture)
- Kim F. Hall (Racial Formation in Renaissance Literature & Culture)
- Peter Platt (Shakespeare; English Renaissance Drama)
- Penelope Meyers Usher (Early Modern Drama; Shakespeare)
Restoration and 18th Century
Specific expertise in this topic is listed in parentheses.
- James Basker (18th Century Journalism; Samuel Johnson and his circle)
- Nathan Gorelick
- Ross Hamilton
19th Century (Romantic and Victorian Literature)
Specific expertise in this topic is listed in parentheses.
- Kristi Cassaro (American Literature)
- Monica Cohen (Long 19th century Anglophone Literature and its Global Afterlives)
- Patricia Denison (Victorian Drama)
- Peggy Ellsberg (Gerard Manley Hopkins)
- Ross Hamilton (Comparative Romanticisms)
- Jayne Hildebrand (19th Century British Literature and Culture)
- Jennie Kassanoff (19th Century American Literature and Culture)
- Hisham Matar (Romanticism)
- William Sharpe (Victorian Studies)
- Michael Shelichach (Victorian Literature)
- Maura Spiegel (19th Century British Novel)
- Elizabeth Weybright (Victorian Literature; British Romanticism)
20th and 21st Century (Modernism and Postmodernism)
Specific expertise in this topic is listed in parentheses.
- Meredith Benjamin (American Literature)
- Kristi Cassaro (American Literature)
- Ken Chen (Modernism)
- Patricia Denison (Dramatic Modernism)
- Jennie Kassanoff (20th century American Literature and Culture)
- Hisham Matar (Modernism)
- Michael Shelichach (Modernist Literature)
Geographies
American and the Americas
Specific expertise in this topic is listed in parentheses.
- Atefeh Akbari (20th Century Anglophone and Francophone Caribbean Literature)
- Meredith Benjamin (20th and 21st Century American Literature)
- Kristi Cassaro (American Literature and Cultural Studies focusing on the 19th and 20th Centuries)
- Yvette Christiansë (20th Century African American Literature)
- Pamela Cobrin (United States Theatre History; United States National Identity and Performance)
- Peggy Ellsberg (Cowboys and the American West)
- Lisa Gordis (Early American literature)
- Maria Hinojosa
- William Sharpe (American Studies)
- Francesca Ochoa (Caribbean and Latin American Literature, Literature of the US Mexico Border Contemporary Latinx Literature)
- Alexandra Watson (Contemporary American Literature)
Postcolonial and Global South
Specific expertise in this topic is listed in parentheses.
- Atefeh Akbari (Postcolonial Studies)
- Ken Chen (Colonialism)
- Yvette Christiansë (Postcolonial Theory)
- Nathan Gorelick (Colonial and Postcolonial Theory)
- Andrew Ragni (Postcolonial Studies)
Africa
Specific expertise in this topic is listed in parentheses.
- Yvette Christiansë (Women’s Writing in Africa; Indian Ocean Africa; Indian Ocean Slave Trade 1807-1900)
- Ross Hamilton (History of the Maghreb)
Europe
Specific expertise in this topic is listed in parentheses.
- Christopher Baswell (Multilingualism of Medieval France and England
- Nathan Gorelick (18th Century; Continental Philosophy)
- Ross Hamilton (Histories of the Mediterranean World)
- Jhumpa Lahiri (Greek, Latin, and Italian Literature)
Britain
Specific expertise in this topic is listed in parentheses.
- Yvette Christiansë (The British Colonial Archive)
- Patricia Denison (Theatre Studies)
- Achsah Guibbory (Exceptionalism; Milton; Donne)
- Jayne Hildebrand (19th Century Literature and Culture)
- Maura Spiegel (19th Century British Novel)
- Elizabeth Weybright (Romanticism)
Middle East
Specific expertise in this topic is listed in parentheses.
- Atefeh Akbari (Persian Literature; Contemporary Iranian Cinema and Music)
- Duygu Oya Ula (Contemporary Art and Theory in the Middle East)
Identities
African American and African Diaspora
Specific expertise in this topic is listed in parentheses.
- James Basker (The Black Atlantic and the History of Slavery and Abolition)
- Yvette Christiansë (African Diaspora Studies; 20th Century African American Literature)
- Kim F. Hall (Black Feminism; Racial Formation in Renaissance Literature & Culture)
- Quincy Jones
- Alexandra Watson (African-American Literature and Literature of the African Diaspora)
Asian American
Specific expertise in this topic is listed in parentheses.
Ethnicity, Race, and Indigenous Studies
Specific expertise in this topic is listed in parentheses.
- James Basker (The Black Atlantic and the History of Slavery and Abolition)
- Kristi Cassaro (Critical Race and Ethnic Studies)
- Ken Chen (Ethnic Studies)
- Yvette Christiansë (Race; African Diaspora Studies)
- Kim F. Hall (Black Feminism; Racial Formation in Renaissance Literature & Culture)
- Alexandra Watson (Anti-Racist Teaching)
Gender, Sexuality, Queer Theory, Feminism
Specific expertise in this topic is listed in parentheses.
- James Basker (Women Writers)
- Christopher Baswell (Narratives of Female Foundation)
- Meredith Benjamin (Women’s Writing; Feminist and Queer Theory)
- Jennifer Boylan (Transgender Equality)
- Yvette Christiansë (Gender)
- Kim F. Hall (Black Feminism)
- Francesca Ochoa (Gender and Sexuality Studies)
- Andrew Ragni (Gender and Sexuality Studies)
- Duygu Oya Ula (Queer Literature)
- Elizabeth Weybright (Gender and Women's Studies)
Disability Studies
Specific expertise in this topic is listed in parentheses.
- Christopher Baswell (Cultural Imagination of Disability in the Middle Ages)
- Duygu Oya Ula
Genre and Medium
Poetry and Poetics
Specific expertise in this topic is listed in parentheses.
- Kristi Cassaro (Ecopoetics)
- Ken Chen (Poetry)
- Yvette Christiansë (Poetics)
- Rachel Eisendrath (Poetics)
- Ross Hamilton (Poetics)
- Quincy Jones (Poetry)
- Eugene Petracca (Late-Medieval Poetry)
- Alexandra Watson (Poetry)
Prose Fiction/History of the Novel
Specific expertise in this topic is listed in parentheses.
- Ken Chen (Experimental Literature)
- Monica Cohen (History of the Novel)
- Lisa Gordis (Evangelical Romance Novels)
- Jayne Hildebrand (The Novel; Speculative Fiction)
- Hisham Matar (Literature of Exile)
- Alexandra Watson (Contemporary American Literature; Fiction Writing; Creative Nonfiction Writing)
Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies
Specific expertise in this topic is listed in parentheses.
- Pamela Cobrin (United States Theatre History; United States National Identity and Performance; Performance Studies)
- Patricia Denison (Victorian and Modern Drama, Dramatic Modernism, British and American Theatre Studies)
- Kim F. Hall
- Peter Platt (Shakespeare and English Renaissance Drama)
- Penelope Meyers Usher (Early Modern Drama and Shakespeare)
Film, Media, and Visual Studies
Specific expertise in this topic is listed in parentheses.
- Atefeh Akbari (Contemporary Iranian Cinema)
- James Basker (Print Culture)
- Monica Cohen (Film, Media, and Visual Studies; Pop Culture)
- William Sharpe (Art and Literature of the Modern City)
- Maura Spiegel (Contemporary Fiction and Film; Film Theory)
- Duygu Oya Ula (Film and Contemporary Art and Theory in the Middle East)
- Alexandra Watson (Literary Magazines)
Translation
Specific expertise in this topic is listed in parentheses.
- Jhumpa Lahiri (Italian Literature)
- Hisham Matar
- Eugene Petracca
- Duygu Oya Ula (Translation Studies)
Domains / Objects of Knowledge
Arts and Art History
Specific expertise in this topic is listed in parentheses.
- Ken Chen (Arts of the Essay)
- Kim F. Hall (Textile Arts)
- Duygu Oya Ula (Contemporary Art in the Middle East and Queer Art)
Law and Humanities
Specific expertise in this topic is listed in parentheses.
- Monica Cohen (Copyright History)
- Jennie Kassanoff (Voting Rights)
Medical Humanities
Specific expertise in this topic is listed in parentheses.
- Cecelia Lie-Spahn (Reproductive Health, Rights, and Justice)
- Maura Spiegel (Narrative Medicine)
Science and Environmental Studies
Specific expertise in this topic is listed in parentheses.
- Kristi Cassaro (Ecopoetics)
- Jayne Hildebrand (History of Science; Environmental Humanities)
- Cecelia Lie-Spahn (Feminist Science and Technology Studies)
- Michael Shelichach (Ecocriticism)
Literature and Music / Jazz Studies
Specific expertise in this topic is listed in parentheses.
- Atefeh Akbari (Contemporary Iranian Music)
- Elizabeth Weybright (Sound Studies and Music Culture)
History of the Book and Manuscript Studies
Specific expertise in this topic is listed in parentheses.
- Christopher Baswell (Medieval Manuscripts)
- Monica Cohen (History of the Novel, Book History, and Seriality)
- Ross Hamilton (Historiography)
- Jhumpa Lahiri (Theory and Practice of Translation)
Philosophy, Aesthetics, History of Ideas, and Sociology of Knowledge
Specific expertise in this topic is listed in parentheses.
- James Basker (Anglo-American History & Literature)
- Kristi Cassaro (American Literature and Cultural Studies focusing on the 19th and 20th Centuries)
- Rachel Eisendrath (Aesthetics)
- Peggy Ellsberg (The English Bible)
- Nathan Gorelick (Continental Philosophy)
- Achsah Guibbory (Exceptionalism, the Protestant Reformation and its Legacy; Religious History and Interfaith Relations; Religion and National Identity)
- Ross Hamilton (Philosophy)
- Jayne Hildebrand (Religion, Spirituality, and Secularization)
- Eugene Petracca (German idealism; Deconstruction)
- Maura Spiegel (History of the Emotions)
Methodologies
Narrative and Rhetorical Theory
Specific expertise in this topic is listed in parentheses.
- Atefeh Akbari (Comparative World Literature and Literary Theory)
- Christopher Baswell (Narratives of Female Foundation; Narratives of Empire and Dynastic Foundation)
- Benjamin Breyer (Comics and Graphic Narratives; The Study and Teaching of Rhetoric)
- Pamela Cobrin (Written and Spoken Rhetoric)
- Monica Cohen (Adaptation Theory)
- Rachel Eisendrath (Rhetoric)
- Lisa Gordis (Conversion Narratives)
- Nathan Gorelick (Literary Criticism and Theory)
- Daniela Kempf (Spoken Rhetoric and Debate)
- Jhumpa Lahiri (Exophonic Writing)
- Peter Platt (History of Rhetoric)
- Michael Shelichach (Cultural and Narrative Theory)
- Maura Spiegel (Narrative Theory)
- Penelope Meyers Usher (Classical traditions and reception)
Political Theory, Marxism, and Critical Social Theory
Specific expertise in this topic is listed in parentheses.
- James Basker (Slavery, Resistance, & Abolition)
- Meredith Benjamin (Feminist and Queer Theory)
- Jennifer Boylan (Transgender Equality; The Fight for Freedom of Expression)
- Ross Hamilton (Marxism and Histories of the Body)
- Cecelia Lie-Spahn (Reproductive Health, Rights, and Justice)
- Duygu Oya Ula (Contemporary Art and Theory in the Middle East)
- Penelope Meyers Usher (Critical Approaches to the Body)
Psychoanalysis and Cognitive Studies
Specific expertise in this topic is listed in parentheses.
- Kristi Cassaro (Consciousness Studies)
- Nathan Gorelick (Psychoanalysis)
- Eugene Petracca (Psychoanalysis)
- Andrew Ragni (Psychoanalysis)
Writing Studies and Pedagogy
Specific expertise in this topic is listed in parentheses.
- James Basker (Women Writers)
- Meredith Benjamin (Writing Pedagogy; Life Writing; Women's Writing)
- Benjamin Breyer (Writing in the Disciplines; Writing Across the Curriculum/WAC)
- Jennifer Boylan (Revision and Reinvention; Storytelling)
- Yvette Christiansë (Creative Writing)
- Pamela Cobrin (Writing Pedagogy)
- Vrinda Condillac (Writing Pedagogy)
- Lisa Gordis (Puritan and Quaker Writings)
- Wendy Schor-Haim (Writing Pedagogy; First-Year Academic Programming)
- Daniela Kempf (Comparative Education; Civic Education)
- Cecelia Lie-Spahn (Writing Across the Curriculum/WAC)
- Duygu Oya Ula (Inclusive Pedagogies)
- Alexandra Watson (Fiction Writing, Creative Nonfiction Writing, Inclusive and Innovative Pedagogies)