Research Interests
Research Interests
Historical Periods
Ancient/Medieval
Specific expertise in this topic is listed in parentheses.
- Rachel Eisendrath
- Wendy Schor-Haim (Medieval History; Women and Religious Minorities in Medieval Europe
- 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.
- Patricia Denison (Shakespeare in Performance)
- 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; Shakespeare's Sources; Shakespeare and Montaigne; Shakespeare and Mourning)
- Penelope Meyers Usher (Early Modern Drama; Early Modern Literature; Shakespeare)
Restoration and 18th Century
Specific expertise in this topic is listed in parentheses.
- James Basker (18th Century Journalism; Samuel Johnson and his circle)
- Patricia Denison (Restoration and 18th Century Drama, Performance, and Adaptation)
- Nathan Gorelick
- Ross Hamilton
19th Century (Romantic and Victorian Literature)
Specific expertise in this topic is listed in parentheses.
- Patricia Denison (Romantic and Victorian Literature; Victorian Drama)
- Peggy Ellsberg (Gerard Manley Hopkins)
- Ross Hamilton (Comparative Romanticisms)
- Jayne Hildebrand (19th Century British Literature and Culture; Victorian Literature)
- Jennie Kassanoff (19th Century American Literature and Culture)
- Hisham Matar (Romanticism)
- Michael Shelichach (Victorian Literature)
- Maura Spiegel (19th Century British Novel)
20th and 21st Century (Modernism and Postmodernism)
Specific expertise in this topic is listed in parentheses.
- Meredith Benjamin (American Literature)
- Ken Chen (Modernism)
- Patricia Denison (Modernism and Postmodernism; 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)
- Yvette Christiansë (20th Century African American Literature)
- Pamela Cobrin (United States Theatre History; United States National Identity and Performance)
- Patricia Denison (Modern American Drama in Performance)
- Peggy Ellsberg (Cowboys and the American West)
- Lisa Gordis (Early American literature)
- Maria Hinojosa
- 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)
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.
- 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 (Drama and Theatre Studies)
- Achsah Guibbory (Exceptionalism; Milton; Donne)
- Jayne Hildebrand (19th Century Literature and Culture; Victorian Literature)
- Maura Spiegel (19th Century British Novel)
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)
- 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)
- Meredith Benjamin (Women’s Writing; Feminist and Queer Theory)
- Yvette Christiansë (Gender)
- Kim F. Hall (Black Feminism)
- Wendy Schor-Haim (Gender Studies)
- Francesca Ochoa (Gender and Sexuality Studies)
- Duygu Oya Ula (Queer Literature)
Disability Studies
Specific expertise in this topic is listed in parentheses.
Genre and Medium
Poetry and Poetics
Specific expertise in this topic is listed in parentheses.
- 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)
- 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 Drama, Performance, Adaptation, and 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)
- 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.
- 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.
- 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)
History of the Book and Manuscript Studies
Specific expertise in this topic is listed in parentheses.
- Ross Hamilton (Historiography)
- Jayne Hildebrand (The Novel)
- 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)
- 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)
- Penelope Meyers Usher (Death)
Methodologies
Narrative and Rhetorical Theory
Specific expertise in this topic is listed in parentheses.
- Atefeh Akbari (Comparative World Literature and Literary Theory)
- Benjamin Breyer (Comics and Graphic Narratives; The Study and Teaching of Rhetoric)
- Pamela Cobrin (Written and Spoken Rhetoric)
- Rachel Eisendrath (Rhetoric)
- Lisa Gordis (Conversion Narratives)
- Nathan Gorelick (Literary Criticism and Theory)
- Wendy Schor-Haim (Literary Studies)
- 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)
- 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.
- Nathan Gorelick (Psychoanalysis)
- Eugene Petracca (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)
- 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)