Faculty and Staff Directory

Interests: Victorian literature and culture; history of the novel; gender and sexuality; history of the emotions, sensation and experience

Interests: Early Modern British literature; the dramatic literature of Shakespeare and his contemporaries; feminist and cultural materialist theory and history

Interests: U.S. women’s history; history of sexuality; disability history; history of psychiatry; African American history; southern history; feminist theory; LGBTQ studies

Research Interests: Political Economy; International Development; Labor; Gender; Social Welfare; Comparative-Historical Methods

Interests: Critical philosophy of race; critical disability studies; phenomenology

Interests: Gender, bodies, biology, and health, particularly in the realm of feminist biology; binary sex vs. feminist paradigms in science and medicine

Interests: Rhetorical theory; comparative rhetoric; human rights representation

Interests: World literature; postcolonial and Caribbean studies; ecocriticism; feminist theory

Interests: African History; The Atlantic World; History of Slavery and Emancipation; Gender and Sexuality; Social and Cultural History

Interests: European and US-American art and visual culture from the nineteenth century to the present; issues of gender, history, and theory; and the history of photography, film, and media culture

Interests: Research interests: Documentary and nonfiction film and archives; images of gender, sexuality, and race; 20th c. institutional film-making in the US and American South; US history and culture; southern studies; feminist and queer theory.

Interests: Kabbalah; Jewish magic; the history of the body in religion

Interests: Latin America; women’s political participation and leadership; gender and politics; transnational feminism; comparative women’s movements; feminist theory; citizenship and state development

Interests: Feminist histories and theories of performance, body and conceptual art; art and activism; politics of contemporary visual culture; socialist film; gender and sexuality in Eastern Europe after WWII (with an emphasis on former Yugoslavia); contemporary activist art practices by ethnic Roma in the Balkan region

Interests: Vocality and the embodied performances of gender, class and region in country music

Interests: Women’s theater; Mexican literature; Spanish-American theater and contemporary Mexican film; feminism and postmodernism

Interests: Early modern English literature; drama; Shakespeare; queer theory; psychoanalysis; literary theory; affect studies; history of sexuality

Interests: Labor; feminist and postcolonial theory; political economy; geographies of global production; Latin America and the Caribbean

Interests: American literature and history from the 18th century to the present; transatlantic slavery and resistance; women’s literature; Africans in early New England; genre studies (e.g., the novel, auto/biographies); food, gardening, film, television

Interests: U.S., African American history; gender/sexuality; social/cultural history; urban history; the emergence of experimental interracial communities in mid-20th century America

Interests: Feminist theory; modernism; continental philosophy; ethics; critical theory