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
19th & 20th century continental philosophy, feminist philosophy, aesthetics
Modern Latin American history: twentieth-century Argentina, cultural history
Visual culture, the politics of memory, affective engagements with the past, political subjectivity, 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
historiography of art history, classical receptions, ancient Mediterranean sculpture, universal museums
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