affect and politics; problems in mass culture and popular culture; science and technology studies; critical historicism and the contemporary moment; Shakespeare in public culture; Milton and early modern literature
Islamic Thought; Qur'anic Studies; Shi'ite and Sufi Traditions; Women and Gender
MENA studies; comparative literature; discourse analysis; film&media
Modern Latin American history: twentieth-century Argentina, cultural history
the politics of memory, affective engagements with the past, political subjectivity, visual culture, the Frankfurt School, race in mass culture, politics of aesthetics
feminist and queer theory; ecofeminism and animal rights; human rights; race and immigration; transnational sexualities; media and cultural studies; disability studies
Culture and Political Economy, Globalization, American and Southern Studies, Visual Culture
historiography of art history, classical receptions, ancient Mediterranean sculpture, universal museums
Nineteenth- and twentieth-century visual culture of the United States; periodical studies; history of technology
late eighteenth century/early nineteenth century black antislavery writing with a particular emphasis on slave narrative autobiography, early black polemic, and their contributions to Atlantic political and intellectual currencies
Restoration and 18th-Century British literature; nationalism, imperialism, and literary culture; postcolonial and world literature, esp. South Asian; anthologies of African American writing