Faculty Research Areas

• 17th century literature
• 19th century US travel urban, and transatlantic writings
• 19th century literature
• African Languages/Literature
• American literature
• American studies
• Animals
• Archival Programs
• Asia-Pacific Studies; modernism
• Asian Languages/Literature
• Asian North American studies
• Asian/Pacific Islanders
• Audiences
• Bible
• Chaucer
• Cinema
• Cinema studies
• Collective identities
• Colonialism
• Communicative writing
• (...more)
• Composition
• Composition theory
• Contemporary American poetry
• Contemporary British literature
• Contemporary Irish literature
• Contemporary fiction
• Creative nonfiction
• Creative process/journey/discovery
• Creative writing
• Crime
• Critical approaches to popular culture
• Digital composition
• Digital humanities
• Digital literacies
• Digital memoir
• Digital storytelling
• Disability studies
• Document design
• Dracula
• Early English drama
• Early Modern rhetoric/literature
• Early Modern science and maths
• Ecology
• Ekphrasis
• Employment skills
• English Language/Literature
• English teacher preparation
• Essay
• Ethnicity
• Feminist and queer theory
• Feminist rhetoric
• Feminist theory
• Fiction writing
• Film
• Film history
• Film studies and theory: noir
• Film studies and theory; horror
• Film theory
• First-year writing
• Form and technique of fiction
• Graphic narratives and comics
• History of medicine and the body
• Human Reproduction/Fertility
• Interdisciplinary approaches: visual, historical, geographical
• Interdisciplinary inquiry
• Interdisciplinary studies
• Intersection of composition and rich media for first-year writers
• Intonation
• Jewish English
• Jewish Studies
• John Milton
• Journalism
• Journalism: reporting, writing, editing
• K-12 literacy
• LGBTQ Literature
• Language and/or Literature, Fiction
• Language and/or Literature, Victorian
• Language contact
• Latinx studies
• Linguistics
• Literary Criticism
• Literary History
• Literary Modernism
• Literary journalism
• Longform
• Love poetry
• Media representations of female sexuality
• Media studies
• Media theory
• Medical humanities
• Medieval History
• Medieval literature
• Memoir
• Memory/forgetting
• Mixed methods research in applied linguistics
• Modernism
• Modernist cultures
• Multilingual poetry
• Multimedia
• Multimodal narratives
• Music Composition
• Music Criticism
• Music criticism
• Musical aesthetics
• Narrative nonfiction
• Narrative studies
• Novel in English
• Novella
• Novels
• Orientalism
• Passing
• Pedagogy
• Performance studies
• Performing Arts
• Personal essay
• Phonetics
• Photography
• Podcast
• Poetry
• Pop culture
• Post-structural narrative analysis
• Postmodern and electronic literature
• Professional rhetoric
• Prosody
• Qualitative research methods
• Queer theory
• Race
• Race and ethnic studies
• Reading pedagogy
• Religion
• Renaissance literature
• Rhetoric
• Risk
• Science fiction
• Science fiction film
• Second language writing
• Shakespeare
• Sherlock Holmes
• Short story
• Slow/close reading
• Sociolinguistics
• Special studies in fiction
• Storytelling
• TESOL
• TV
• Teacher Education
• Teacher education
• Teaching English and literacy
• Technical rhetoric
• Technical writing
• Theatre history
• Theory
• Translation theory
• Trauma
• US imperialism
• Variation and change
• Virginia Woolf
• Virtual Reality
• Visual culture
• War
• Women writers
• Women writers of narrative prose
• Women's Studies
• World cinema
• Writing and reading instruction
• Writing: fiction
• Writing: short stories
• Yiddish
• Young adult literature
• (less)