CURRENT FACULTY RESEARCH INTERESTS

Steve Axelrod

• American poetry from the beginning to the present
• American literature generally from about 1830 to the present
• Cold War era culture and literature
• Modernism
• Postmodernism
• Imagism
• Objecivism
• Jewish-American culture and literature
• Minority literature
• Language poetry
• Prose poetry
• Contemporary experimental literature
• California literature
• Robert Lowell
• Sylvia Plath
• Elizabeth Bishop
• Allen Ginsberg
• Gwendolyn Brooks
• John Ashbery

Jennifer Doyle

• Visual Culture
• Contemporary Performance Art (Ron Athey, Vaginal Davis, Franko B., Nao Bustamente)
• Contemporary Visual Art (mainly photography/performance - esp. based in Mexico City, L.A., London)
• Contemporary African-American Art
• American Literature
• Reconstruction/Post-Reconstruction as well as contemporary literature, film, art, television/video ABOUT the Civil War & its aftermath
• Literary Criticism & Theory
• Marxist Literary Criticism
• Feminist Literary Theory & History
• Gay and Lesbian Studies in Literature & Literary History
• Queer Theory

Carole Fabricant

• First and foremost, Swift
• Postcolonial and Irish Studies (especially, but not exclusively, in the eighteenth century)
• Eighteenth-century Anglo-Irish literature
• Travel literature and its relationship to (among other things) colonialism and Britain’s imperial project
• The relationship between aesthetics and ideology

George Haggerty

• 18th-Century British Literature (in general)
• Male friendship in the 18th Century
• Sodomy in the 18th Century
• Female Friendship in the 18th Century
• Lesbianism in the 18th Century
• Gothic Literature
• Sexuality in Gothic Literature
• Transgressive Sexual Behaviors in Gothic Literature
• The History of Sexuality
• Sexuality and British Literature
• 18th-Century Comedy
• The British Novel in the 18th Century

Tiffany Ana López

• Twentieth Century American Literature
• American Studies
• Chicana/o Literary and Cultural Studies
• American Theater and Drama
• Transnational Latina/o Studies
• Prison Narratives
• Performance Studies
• Violence as a Critical Discourse
• Feminist Theory
• Trauma Theory
• Irene Maria Fornes
• Cherrie Moraga
• Migdalia Cruz
• Luis Alfaro
• Multicultural Children’s Literature
• Writing Across Genres
• Personal Narratives & Critical Engagement
• Youth Theater
• Literature as Social Document

Vorris Nunley

• Rhetorical Theory
• Histories of Rhetoric
• Critical Theory
• Film and Visual Culture & Rhetorics
• African American Literary and Cultural Studies
• African American Expressive Cultures and Music
• Public Pedagogy
• Neo-liberalism and Subjectivities
• African American Hush Harbors
• Masculinity Studies
• Critical and Feminist Geographies

Michelle Rajeha

• Early American literature (pre-1492 to 19th century)
• Native American/First Nations Literature and Cultural Studies
• Film and Visual Culture
• American Studies
• Autobiography and Autobiography Theory
• American Indian Boarding/Residential Schools
• Oral Narrative
• Transnational Indigenous Studies
• Non-fiction Studies (letters, speeches, legal texts, etc.)
• Comparative Critical Race Theory
• Literature and Theory of Trauma
• Feminist theory
• Popular Cultural/Celebrity Studies
• Colonial/Postcolonial Theory and Literature
• Cannibalism Studies

James Tobias

• Cybercultural Studies
• Cinema Studies
• Music and Image Studies
• Queer Theory/Studies
• Critical Theory
• Narrative Theory
• Deleuze Studies
• Gaming Studies
• Interactive Media Studies
• Immersive Environments
• Net Art
• Studies of Liveness
• Globalizing/Transnational media

Traise Yamamoto

• Twentieth Century American Literature
• British and American Modernism
• Asian American Literary and Cultural Studies
• American Studies
• Critical Race Theory
• Queer Asian American Writing
• Feminist Theory
• Race and Masculinity Studies
• Autobiography and Autobiography Theory
• Mixed-race/Hapa Studies
• Poetry and Poetics
• Trauma Theory
• 1920s Paris
• 1950s United States
• Japanese American Internment
• American Women Poets
• Virginia Woolf
• Creative Writing
• Young Adult Fiction