Student Directory

Postcolonial Studies, Environmental Humanities, Queer Theory, Disability Studies

20th/21st century American Literature, Black Poetics, Social Movement Histories, Prison Writing, Jazz/Hip-Hop Studies, Public Humanities

19th-century British literature; Theory of the novel; Victorian literary culture; Japanese translation and reception

Late medieval French and English literature, Old English literature, medieval women’s writing, premodern critical race studies, psychoanalysis, histories of race, sexuality, and childbirth

Romantic/18th-Century Poetry; Ecocriticism; Cultures of Exhaustion 

Shakespeare; Early Modern Drama; History of Race; Whiteness Studies; Race, Gender & Sexuality Studies; Renaissance

Renaissance epic; military history; elegy and memorial; social history and critical archival studies; Spenser and Shakespeare; medieval romance; humanism and pedagogy; premodern gender, race, and class; popular readership and reception

20th and 21st century African American literature, contemporary American literature, Black political thought

Irish Literature, Literary Modernism, Linguistics

Early Modern Literature; Restoration/18th-century Drama; Theater and Performance Studies; Shakespeare Adaptation and Performance History; Enlightenment Theories of Knowledge Formation; Spectacle in Theater and Politics

Nineteenth-century African American Ecopoetics & Georgia Douglas Johnson

Middle English literature; medieval allegory; vernacularity and translation; histories of reading; sexual violence; feminist and queer studies

20th-21st century, visual culture, Marxism, histories of capitalism, literary theory

American literary history and legal history, especially the 20th century; social protest movements and cultural production.

gender and sexuality; reproductive failure; affect; posthumanisms; film and media; 20th- / 21st-century American

20th Century South(ern) African Newspapers and Periodicals, South African Jazz Culture, Black Femininities in Visual Productions

20th century American literature, Milton, Early Modern Studies

American literature, cold war, environment, nuclearism, empire

gender and sexuality, disability studies, 20th-century British and American fiction, the novel, queer and feminist theory, film and media, history of sexuality

Modernism, Postcolonial Literature, Global Anglophone, South Asian Literature, Literary Theory

Late medieval devotional poetry in English and Latin; manuscript studies; historical prosody/metrics; philosophy of language; philology/theology; ‘long’ Anthropocene studies

Old English; medieval Latin; poetry, poetics, aesthetics; philosophy of mind; didactic and devotional literature