Modern & Classical Languages, Literatures & Cultures

Islam in America, Islamic Studies

Russian Literature, Modern Poetry, Contemporary Poetry, Visual Culture, Language Pedagogy, Photography, Theater and Performance studies, Film, Digital Humanities, Social Theory, Pedagogy and Second Language Acquisition, 20th Century Poetry

rabbinic interpretation of the Bible within Targumic literature, theodicy

Germanic Linguistics, Turkish-German identity, Hip Hop Studies, Style and Sociolinguistic Variation, Second Language Acquisition, History of the German Language

Sport in 20th and 21st century German literature, National Identity, Critical Theory, Pedagogy and Second Language Acquisition, fairy tales, German film

Colonial Through Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture, Race Theory, Composition and Rhetoric, African African American and Caribbean Literature and Culture, Kentucky African American history, Oral History

Hebrew Bible, Ancient Israel

Early Chinese intellectual history, classical Chinese poetry, late-imperial vernacular fiction

20th century German Cultural Studies, with a focus on sports history (mountaineering), World Language Pedagogy, esp. the preparation and training of graduate TAs

Medieval French literature, Medieval romance, gender, women's studies, Pedagogy, curriculum design, Arthurian legend

Gender and Jewish literature, Popular Ethnography and American Jewish Identity, Post-Holocaust Jewish Identity, Hassidic Narratives and Secular Culture, Documentary Photography and Post-Holocaust Identity, Translation and Jewish American Identity, Literature of the Holocaust, The Ethics of Representation, Testimony and Trauma

Second Language Reading and Biliteracy Development, Foreign Language Assessment and Instruction, Psycholinguistics, Second Language Acquisition

Specializes in Russian language instruction, literature and culture and Russian piano music.

Hellenistic Poetry, Greek and Latin literature, Caribbean Culture and Literature, race studies and racial formation, Imperial Greek Literature

Early Christianity; Byzantium; rhetoric

Greek Literature and Philosophy, Homer, Classical Tradition

Vernacular Religion, Russian Rituals and Holidays, Verbal semantics, Cognitive Linguistics