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
Critical media studies, mass communication theory, and urban communication
Early modern Europe, especially France, the Reformation, the history of wine, the history of the book
Gender/Sexuality, Culture and Political Economy, Crime and Punishment, American Studies, Latin America
Visual culture, the politics of memory, affective engagements with the past, political subjectivity, Frankfurt School, race in mass culture, politics of aesthetics
Sense of Place, Appalachian Studies, Transnational Migration
Film and Media Studies, Science and Technology Studies, Cultural Studies, AI / Machine Learning, Big Data, Image Recognition, Computer Vision, Eye Tracking
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
Political economy and culture, globalization, media and technology, critical race and gender theory