Theories of Nationalism, Politics of Space, Identity Politics, Levant, S.W.A.N.A, Trauma Studies
Visual culture, gender studies, postcolonialism, literature, and film
Early African American Cinema--focus on women, Early Cinema, African American Cinema, Film Studies, Critical Race Theory, D.C. History
Marxist literary criticism, public sphere, popular culture, literary communities
Native American and Indigenous Studies, performance theory, ethnography, folklore, collective memory, historical trauma and genocide, film and television studies, gender studies and feminist theory
Critical Development studies, citizenship, biopolitics, globalization, immigration, migration, colonialism, postcolonialism
Black feminism, intersectionality, publics/counterpublics, narrative theory, women's literature, media studies
Techno-religion, religious conservatism, neoliberal political economy, cultural politics, social/cultural resistance, social movements, digital activism.
Ethics with interest in phenomenology, deconstruction, Kantian aesthetics, especially the sublime
Gender and Sexuality; mass and popular culture; social media/digital ethnography; disability, historical and modern US culture.
Underground music, subcultures, economic geography, deindustrialization, grassroots politics and activism, DIY, direct action.
Video game studies, transgender studies, queer and feminist theory, literary theory and criticism, media representation, identity formation and performance, human rights movements
Race/ethnicity, biopolitics, African American Studies
Critical Theory, Neoliberalism, Digital Cultures, Genre Studies, New Media, Popular Culture
Non-normative genders, the construction of gender, TV/film/media, the U.S. security state and queer bodies. The figure of the queer child/trans child
chemical photography, film, vision, ocularcentrism, alienation, and subjectivity
Working-class studies, 19th-century novel, sociolinguistics, graphic narrative, labor studies
Gender and sexuality, mass and popular culture, postfeminism
A constellation of Marxist political economy, Frankfurt School aesthetics and critical environmental history as they pertain to the American Appalachian region and its history of coal mining and local music that runs the gamut from folk and bluegrass to black metal
Mass and popular culture, neoliberalism, media studies, and critical theory
Feminist and queer anthropology, ethnography, bodies and embodiment, gender and sexuality, drag performance
The internet, history of technology, history of philosophy, philosophy of history, critical theory, power relations, biopower, Africana philosophy, African art, art history, art theory.
Black feminism, Black Marxism, Media Studies, Black identity, Black Literature, popular culture, oral histories, critical ethnography.
Migration, diaspora, political economy, digital activism, language politics, gender, international development, religion, ethnography, Central Asia, Tajikistan
- Memory Studies - Narratology and narrative theory - Visual Culture - Media studies
Culture and Political Economy, Globalization, American and Southern Studies, Visual Culture
war and sexuality; globalization; militarization; queer refugees
Medievalism, Academia as Culture, The Significance of Library Collections.
Political economy, state theory, race and class, history and culture of the labor movement, globalization and imperialism
Public Space and Tourism; Socialist Revolution and Propaganda; Informal Sector; Political Economy; Cuba; Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Political Economy, Digital Media Theory, Science and Technology Studies, Environmental Studies
Film & television, American popular culture, digital & social media
Social Movement Studies, affect theory, Gender and Sexuality Studies, New Media Theory and Network Studies
Cultural studies, Islamic studies, sociology of culture, Middle East, subjectivity, identity, alienation, cultural changes
Museum studies, memory studies, dissensus, political subjectivity, and cultural policy
Transnational spaces, literature, South Asian American culture, kinship work, and The Midwest.
Global media industries, streaming television, post-colonial studies, visual culture, Indian cinema, adaptation studies, mimetic theory, affect theory, dialectics in film and television
Popular music studies, affect theory, popular culture, memory studies, media and technology, social activism
Diaspora, South Asian-American studies, disability, queer bodies, governmentality and empire
Migration and Border Studies, Humanitarianism, Globalization, MENA
Migration and Border Studies, Humanitarianism, Globalization, MENA
Immersive art practices, cultural psychology, narrative identity theories, mass culture.
Social institutions, particularly institutions of higher education; rhetoric and politics; social control.
African American studies, power-based violence, masculinity, and social reproduction through the lens of education/educational spaces.
Film and media, popular culture, psychoanalysis, gender and sexuality, transnationalism
American Studies, legal and policy history, mass incarceration, comparative justice, poverty studies
Politics of Humor, Memory, Affect, Performance, Gender&Sexuality
Marxist political economy, Frankfurt school, uneven and combined development, globalization theory, international relations, nationalism, visual culture, the holocaust, celebrity studies, North Korean culture
Museums, globalization, art, sociology of culture, museum studies, critical theory, art theory, art historiography, Arab States of the Persian Gulf