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, Native American and Indigenous Studies, American fiction from the beginnings to the 21st century, multi-ethnic American literatures
British modernism; technologies of culture; periodical press history; gender
Literature: Medieval literature; medieval historiography; translation; rhetoric; classical reception; Welsh and Celtic Studies
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.
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, critical theory, media history and theory, religion and media, cultural studies
Writing and Rhetoric: Classical and contemporary rhetorical theory, digital rhetoric, digital scholarship and electronic publication, web authoring and design, technical and scientific writing
Literature: world literature, modern fiction, comparative literature
Film and Media Studies: Documentary, television, social media, war movies, sports media, black popular cultures, LGBTQ media, horror, action, and science fiction movies and TV, gender and sexuality
Folklore: narrative, performance, the ethnography of communication, Persianate oral traditions, Islam, Central Asia and the Middle East
Folklore: Folklore, public humanities, performance studies, African Studies, women's and gender studies, politics and culture, ethnographic fieldwork, filmmaking, digital storytelling.
Writing and Rhetoric: Professional and Technical Writing, Rhetoric and Composition, Queer Rhetorics, HIV/AIDS, Health Communication, Risk Communication
Literature: early American literature, early modern women's writing, feminist theory
Literature and culture of the U.S. South; race, religion, and literature; ecocriticism and environmental justice.
Literature: Speculative fiction and sci-fi; environmental humanities; C20/21 multi-ethnic American literatures; postcolonial and Indigenous literatures; science and technology studies; gender and sexuality studies.
Literature: contemporary poetry; Critical Theory; Visual art and Art History;
Linguistics: phonetics, laboratory phonology, speech perception, speech production, bi-(or multi-)lingualism
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: Sense of Place, Appalachian Studies, Transnational Migration
Writing and Rhetoric: Medical rhetoric, vaccine controversy, professional and technical communication, public rhetoric, rhetoric of science and technology
Literature: nineteenth-century American literature; gender and sexuality studies; research methods; queer theory
child language acquisition, morphology, morphosyntax, language variation, real-time language comprehension
Literature: Modernism; Anglophone novel, drama, and poetry, spec. Irish, Caribbean, British literature; literary theory, postcolonialism and cultural studies; history of English.
Literature: Early modern literature, Shakespeare and Renaissance drama, gender and sexuality
Literature: history of children's literature; eighteenth-century British literature; disability studies
Film and Media Studies, Science and Technology Studies, Cultural Studies, AI / Machine Learning, Big Data, Image Recognition, Computer Vision, Eye Tracking
Writing and Rhetoric: Technical communication; Audience studies; User experience (UX); Data analytics & corpus analysis.
Writing and Rhetoric: faculty development, composition and rhetoric, writing program administration, writing pedagogy education
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.
Writing and Rhetoric: My primary research interests revolve around the development of writing abilities across the lifespan, longitudinal studies of writing, writing instruction and feedback, the relationship of writing to knowledge production and social progress, and international writing research.
Literature: British literature and culture of the long nineteenth century, nineteenth-century British novel, materialist approaches to literature.
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.
Linguistics: Computational Linguistics, Linguistic Typology, Language and cognition, Morphology, 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
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
Folklore: Material Culture, Heritage, Museums, Tourism, Oral Narrative, Ethnographic Fieldwork, China, East Asia