Renaissance literature and culture; Shakespearean drama; British writing about South America; ideology and literature

Native American and indigenous studies; African American studies; settler colonial studies; critical race theory; early American and antebellum U.S. literature and culture

Twentieth Century American Prose Fiction; comparative Modernisms (Anglo-American, Brazilian, Israeli); psychoanalysis; attention and sound studies; translation studies; the Gothic and posthumanism

American and British Poetry; philosophy and literature; trauma studies; war literature; disability studies; 18th-century English culture

Jewish American literature; Yiddish, Hebrew, Polish and German literature; queer theory; history of sexuality; poetry and poetics

Contemporary African literature, particularly Anglophone literature and Realism; postcolonial theory and world literature; self-writing and the construction of collective identities; critical pedagogy, education, and conceptions of literacy in Africa; oral culture as part of the educational system, esp. in the digital age; discourse ecologies: textual representations in the public sphere

Cognitive literary studies; empirical studies of literature; metaphor; William Carlos Williams; John Donne; Dan Pagis; Christian Hebraism; Reformation Biblical drama

19th & 20th century American fiction; book history (especially the history of reading and interpretive conventions); genre; reception theory; race