Nineteenth-century British and American literature; the literature and culture of the Americas; material culture; colonialism and post-colonialism; autobiography.
Linguistics: discourse analysis, analysis of medical discourse. Composition: discourse analysis, analysis of student writing, research methodologies, rhetoric of disability.
Early modern literature and culture, especially drama, prose, and cheap print; theories of gender and sexuality; Women's Studies, Gender Studies, and Feminist Studies.
Regional American cultures, especially southern literature and culture; canonical American and marginalized ethnic cultures, post-colonial Caribbean literature
Research and teaching interests include: modernism; cultural studies; Russian and Soviet literature and culture; 20 th century art, literature, culture and thought; gender studies; queer theory; visual culture; globalization and post-national American stu
Composition theory; literacy theory and literate practices, especially in relation to personal and social change; composition pedagogy; qualitative research methods and methodology.
Contemporary American culture; cultural studies; Cities and middle-class culture; cultural institutions, esp. the university; popular film/TV; architecture
Folklore studies including folklore and literature connections; folk narrative theory, esp. contemporary legend and personal experience narrative; cultural studies; gender studies.
Modern American poetics and politics of reading; African American poetry; Detroit Black labor and political activism and texts bearing on Internationalism; “Neo-Nietzschean clatter” and/or deconstruction in contemporary and historical avant-garde(s) and,
Culture, history, and theory of literacy, rhetoric, and writing, the ebonics controversy as a site for theorizing material rhetoric, race identity, and writing pedagogy.
16th- and 17th-century English literature; Lyric poetry from Wyatt to Milton; Shakespeare; Historical approaches to early modern literature; Bibliography and textual criticism; Literary transmission in manuscript and print; Literature and religion.
Feminist theory as applied to the theory of writing; classroom-based research; intergenerational learning; autobiographical writing; late-life literacy; age studies
Fiction of Dickens and Thackeray; poetry of Tennyson; on-going interest in H.G. Wells; current large project - the military in 19th-century British literature and culture. Also interested in description in literature. Current research project is a book-le
Romantic-era writing (especially by Thelwall, the Shelleys, Wollstonecraft, Anglo-Jewish writers); Jewish studies, American and British; literary theory (Freud, Frankfurt School, hermeneutics)
Arthurian literature in medieval England and France; contemporary uses of Arthurian legend, particularly in mass or popular culture; early English grammars in cultural context
Classical and contemporary Hollywood cinema (including crime, film noir, blockbuster, animation); German cinema; queer theory; special effects technology.
Comparative literature; feminist studies; contemporary women's drama; poetry of the British Romantic period and French symbolism; British, American and Continental women writers of the 19th and 20th centuries; scientific discourses and the construction of
18th-, 19th-, and 20th-century novel, especially 19th- and early 20th-century realism/naturalism; comparative literature: European, North and South American fiction; 16th- 17th- century travel and exploration writing; Gothic novels; Brazilian literature,
American modernist and postmodernist literature; modernism and social modernity; linguistics and poetics; subjectivity and literary form; cultural politics; historical narration and national identity; the avant-garde; contemporary poetry and poetics.
