Literature: 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
Literature: middle eastern literature; world literature; postcolonial studies, gender and sexuality
Literature: American Indian literatures, Southern studies, Horror studies, Native American and Indigenous Studies, American fiction from the beginnings to the 21st century,
British modernism; technologies of culture; periodical press history; gender
Creative Writing: poetry, ecopoetics, eco-justice, recent and contemporary American poetry
Composition: Cultural Studies, Horror Literature, Feminist Literature, Southern Gothic Literature, Jane Austen, Shirley Jackson
Publishing, nonfiction writing and literature, historical narrative, history, urban history
Creative Writing: Specifically dystopian fiction and satire.
Hip Hop rhetoric, Black Church rhetoric, community studies, personal narrative, documentary rhetoric, non-traditional students, theological writing
Composition: Postcolonial Studies, Anglophone Caribbean Studies, Sexuality Studies, Rhetorics of Belonging and Identity, Cultural and Visual Rhetoric, Spatial Theory, Women’s Studies, Masculinity Studies, Class Theory
Literature: Medieval literature; medieval historiography; translation; rhetoric; classical reception; Welsh and Celtic Studies
Creative Writing: Queer Literature, Horror, Intersectional Feminism/Womanism, Character-centric Narratives
Creative Writing: Fiction, mental health, gender and sexuality
Literature: Contemporary Literature, Cultural Studies, Folklore, Postcolonial Studies, Ecocriticism, Gender Studies
Linguistics: Computational Linguistics, Automated Speech Recognition, Language Documentation/Revitalization, Phonetics, Sociolinguistics (Gender and Neurodiversity)
Composition: Impact of engaging with the arts on military veterans and their families.
Early Modern British Literature and Culture; Mobility and Family; Ecocriticism and the Late Renaissance; Plants and Insects in Early Modern Culture; Poetry and Early Modern Science
Literature: 20th-Century African American Literature; African American Literary Masculinity Studies; Black LGBTQ+ Literature; African American Drama; Major Authors: James Baldwin, Ernest J. Gaines, Ann Petry
Writing and Rhetoric: Academic, baseline, civic, and information literacies; news media's role in the public sphere; propaganda and fake news; first-year composition; writing program administration; applying Stasis Theory to teaching research and writing; critical thinking and logical fallacies; Kenneth Burke's theory on identification and division in relation to political power and influence.
LGBTQ+ Studies; friendship studies; television studies; trauma rhetoric; gender and sexuality in Appalachia; role of gender equity centers in higher education
Composition: Social movements, race and ethnic studies in the U.S., theories of genders and sexualities, oral history, feminist pedagogy, mindfulness education, and the globalization of liberal arts education
Writing and Rhetoric: Writing and Rhetoric: International technical communication, professional and technical communication, social justice, public intellectualism, rhetoric of technology, technology and elections, politics, biometric technology, and localization.
Writing and Rhetoric: Digital rhetoric, empathy and video games, intersections of queer theory and video games, performativity and embodiment in gaming, the queer history of horror
Corpus Linguistics, Multilingual Learners' Academic Communication and Identity, L2 Pronunciation.
Literature: 18th and 19th century British literature and culture, esp. Romanticism; lyric poetry; history of reading; literary and cultural theory
Film and Media: global media and television studies, Middle East and Arab media studies, visual culture studies, urban studies, infrastructure studies, critical theory, media history and theory, cultural studies
Composition: Intercultural technical communication, digital communication, professional and technical writing
Writing and Rhetoric: Classical and contemporary rhetorical theory, digital rhetoric, composing with AI, digital scholarship and electronic publication, web authoring and design, technical and scientific writing
Composition: Workplace writing, writing transfer, writing in the disciplines, online and hybrid pedagogy
Composition: British film and television, adaptation studies, composition, British cultural studies, film and television directors, media history, arts documentary
Writing and Rhetoric: brain research and the teaching of writing; portfolio assessment; writing and meditation
Writing and Rhetoric: composition pedagogy, digital rhetoric and literacy, multilingual learners, minority student populations
Folklore: narrative, performance, the ethnography of communication, Persianate oral traditions, Islam, Central Asia and the Middle East
Folklore: Folklore, music, dance, public humanities, performance studies, African Studies, women's and gender studies, migration, war, politics and culture, ethnographic fieldwork, filmmaking, digital storytelling.
Composition: Theories and best practices of writing instruction Composition theories
Creative Writing: Creative Nonfiction Writing, Publishing, and Editing
Creative Writing: fiction; non-fiction; online writing and publishing
Genre systems analysis, procedural rhetoric, game design, rhetorics of crowdfunding, creative contexts.
Writing and Rhetoric: Professional and Technical Writing, Rhetoric and Composition, Queer Rhetorics, HIV/AIDS, Health Communication, Risk Communication
African Diasporic Literature, (Caribbean, African American, African Lit...) American Literature, Feminist Theories and Criticism, Women Writers, World Literature, Literary Criticism and Theory, Black Feminist Criticism and Theory...
Writing and Rhetoric: multilingual writing, second language writing, translingualism, trauma studies, feminist rhetorics/rhetorical feminism
Literature: early American literature, early modern women's writing, feminist theory
Writing and Rhetoric: Millennial Protest/Rhetoric of Confrontation
Literature and culture of the U.S. South; race, religion, and literature; ecocriticism and environmental justice.
Composition: Composition theory and practice, adult learning theory, and medieval literature and history.
Literature: Speculative fiction and sci-fi; environmental humanities; C20/21 multi-ethnic American literatures; Indigenous and postcolonial literatures; science and technology studies; gender and sexuality studies.
Linguistics: Second Language acquisition EFL Comparative linguistics
Writing and Rhetoric: critical pedagogy, sociocultural turn of writing pedagogy, multilingual writing, second language writing, translingualism, writing across curriculum, feminist ethnographic research
nineteenth-century British literature, history of science, interdisciplinary and cultural studies
Writing and Rhetoric: Professional and technical communication, public rhetoric, accessibility, rhetoric of disability
Writing and rhetoric: composition pedagogy, mindfulness meditation, writing centers, antiracist writing assessment, translingualism.
Composition: Digital intellectual property, online civility, online instructional design, oral response to student writing
Restoration and eighteenth-century British literature, British drama and performance, feminist theory and criticism
Literature: contemporary poetry; Critical Theory; Visual art and Art History;
Linguistics: phonetics, spoken word recognition, computational methods, speech perception, speech acoustics, automatic speech recognition, speech technology
Composition: multilingual writers, multi-ethnic American literature, bibliomemoirs.
Literature: Teen/Young Adult Literature; Gender and Sexuality Studies; Multi-Ethnic American Literature; African American Literature; Women Writers; Harry Potter
Writing and Rhetoric: Feminist research/feminist rhetoric, creative nonfiction, community writing, writing across the curriculum/in the disciplines, ethnography, writing program administration and pedagogy
Folklore: Contemporary Irish Folklore, Sense of Place, Appalachian Studies, Transnational Migration
Writing and Rhetoric: Medical rhetoric and medical humanities, vaccine controversy, professional and technical communication, public rhetoric, rhetoric of science and technology
Writing center theory and practice, research methods, discourse analysis
Composition: First year composition, teacher development, scholarship of teaching and learning
Literature: nineteenth-century American literature; gender and sexuality studies; research methods; queer theory
Linguistics: child language acquisition, morphology, morphosyntax, language variation, real-time language comprehension
medical rhetoric, health communication, proposal writing, activism, multimodal composition
Creative Writing: queer literature, women & gender studies, personal narratives
Literature: Modernism; Postcolonialism; Anglophone novel, drama, and poetry, spec. Irish, Caribbean, British literature; literary theory, cultural studies, petroculture & theories of energy transition; History of English, Global English literary criticism
Composition: Writing Engagement, Pedagogic Theory, Graffiti Rhetorics
Linguistics: Phonetics, Phonology, Second Language Acquisition, Language Documentation and Revitalization
Literature: Early modern literature, Shakespeare and Renaissance drama, gender and sexuality
Writing and Rhetoric: Visual Rhetoric, Professional and Technical Writing, Rhetoric, Writing Studies
Creative Writing: Nationalism, intergenerational trauma, and breaking cycles of violence through individual and civic agency. Mehta's column, The Company We Keep, on the reading and writing life, appears in the Independent, exploring the life of social justice and the contemporary imagination.
Writing and Rhetoric: Writing Program Administration incl. Labor Advocacy, Professional Development, and Curriculum Development | Composition Pedagogy incl. Writing about Writing, Public Writing, Active Learning, Distance Learning, and Service Learning
Literature: history of children's literature; eighteenth-century British literature; disability studies
Linguistics: Phonetics, Phonology, Second Language Acquisition
reading in freshman composition, reading and writing identities, inequity and racism connected to literacy/literacies, the science of reading, K-12 language practices and their connections with college writing, multiplicity as a teaching philosophy and methodological phenomenon, Kenneth Burke, Richard III
Composition: Artificial Intelligence in the English Classroom, Educational Advocacy
Composition: linguistics; Caribbean literature; science and technology; world literature;
Sociology of Religion, Politics of the Middle East, Islamism, Religious Education, Religious Institutions
Film and Media Studies: Internet Studies, Science and Technology Studies, Media Studies, Cultural Studies, AI / Machine Learning, Big Data, Image Recognition, Computer Vision
20th-century American literature, science and literature, history of science, economics and the environment
Creative Writing: Poetry, World Poetry, Translation, Epic, Performance, Critical Writing on Indian and African Poetry in English, Interdisciplinary Practice & Theory
Institutional Rhetorics, Institutional Ethnography, Composition Pedagogy
Folklore, Folklife, Public Folklore, Foodways, Immigrant Experience, Urban Folklore, Cultural Anthropology.
Morphology, Syntax, Computational Linguistics, Semantics & Pragmatics
Composition: - Visual and digital rhetoric and the rhetoric of display as they relate to discourse and identity. - Preparing student for the Fourth Industrial Revolution. - Hyperbole and its influence on/representation in social rhetoric. - Targeted writing programs to address the professional and academic needs of non-traditional students in an online and blended-delivery setting.
Literature: Contemporary Literature; History and Theory of the Novel; Image Theory; Film and Television Studies; Comics Studies
Literature: Diasporic Black Theory, Black Girlhood Studies, African American Literature, Black Women Writers, Women and Gender Studies
Writing and Rhetoric: Technical writing and editing; Audience studies; User experience (UX); Data analytics & corpus analysis.
Writing and Rhetoric: faculty development, composition and rhetoric, writing program administration, writing pedagogy education
Writing and Rhetoric: Technical Communications, User Experience, and Professional Writing
Classic cinema, Orson Welles and the origins of "truthiness" in performance, transindigenous adaptations of Shakespeare, and performing gendered and racialized sexualities from Shakespeare to Hollywood.
Composition: 19th and 20th Century Philosophy, Comparative Literature, Critical Theory, 20th Century Polish Literature, particularly Witkacy
medieval literature, science fiction, fantasy, literature and the arts, children's literature
Literature: British literature and culture of the long nineteenth century, nineteenth-century British novel, materialist approaches to literature.
Composition: 19th-century American literature, with particular focus on works by women and African-Americans and the novel; American antislavery literature; digital humanities; open educational resources; writing in and about the disciplines.
Writing and Rhetoric: multilingual education, metacognition, language justice, memory and media, qualitative research
global and transnational cinema; incarceration and security; diaspora and migration; violence and human rights; colonialism; Indian, Irish, and Latin American film; race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality
Linguistics: Syntax, morphology, semantics, language documentation and revitalization; Scottish Gaelic, St. Lawrence Island / Siberian Yupik; aspect, tense, mood, modality; Distributed Morphology; roots and categories; nominals and nominal functional structure.
Composition: Intersection between language and history Book History Multimodal Composition Popular Writing
cultural studies, film, horror, popular culture, fan studies, online media culture, queer studies, intersectional feminism, race and ethnic studies, gender and sexuality, social movements, Southern studies
Writing and Rhetoric: Writing studies, rhetoric of true crime, transfer of learning, writing threshold concepts, pedagogy
horror studies; rhetorics of mental health conditions and distress; and writing, literature, and feminist pedagogies
Writing and Rhetoric: teacher growth and development, writing pedagogy, writing across the curriculum
Folklore: Folklore, Occupational Folklife, Agriculture, Foodways, Supernatural Beliefs, Fear, Urban Legends, and Folklife Festivals.
Creative Writing: Literary, Speculative, and Science Fiction
Composition:
Composition, Cultural Studies, African & African American Studies, African American Literature
Creative Writing: short stories; crime, mystery, and suspense fiction; book reviews.
Creative Writing: poetry; war poetry; visual poetry; mixed form (prose & poetry); poetry's intersections with walking art and land art;
Creative Writing: Film and media studies, environmental studies, ecopoetry, queer poetry, queer studies, gender and identity studies.
Linguistics: Laboratory phonology; Divergent speech; Computational Linguistics; Natural Language Processing
Writing and Rhetoric: digital rhetoric, technical communication, digital curation, theories and histories of rhetoric, digital humanities, composition pedagogy, rhetorics and poetics of memory, media ecology, medieval rhetorics and poetics
Linguistics: Computational Linguistics, Linguistic Typology, Language and cognition, Morphology, Syntax, Language documentation
Linguistics: phonetics, phonology, second language acquisition, speech accents, alien language
Literature: 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
Public folklore, ethnomusicology, scapelore, cultural geography, Appalachia, American South.
Writing and Rhetoric: Rhetoric of health and medicine, invitational rhetoric, medical writing
Literature: Renaissance drama, Critical Race Theory, Feminist Theory, Shakespeare
Writing and Rhetoric: Writing Program Administration, Feminist Rhetorics, Composition
Linguistics: Application of linguistics to TESL, formal semantics and the semantics-pragmatics interface, historical linguistics, computational linguistics
Literature: Restoration and 18th-Century British literature; nationalism, imperialism, and literary culture; postcolonial and world literature, esp. South Asian; anthologies of African American writing
traditional narrative; material culture; family folklore; gender studies
Writing and Rhetoric: writing across the curriculum; writing in the disciplines; writing assessment; multicultural and second language writers; feminism and composition
Folklore: Material Culture, Folk Arts and Crafts, Folklife, Heritage, Museums, Tourism, Oral Narrative, Ethnographic Fieldwork, China, East Asia