Italy, Italian, Andrea da Barberino, chivalric epic, Arthurian romances

Russian Literature, Language Pedagogy, Theater and Performance studies, Poetry and Poetics, Film and visual culture, environmental and sustainability studies

Ancient and medieval philosophy, Philosophy of Religion, Interactions of philosophy and theology

Spanish Applied Linguistics, Second Language Acquisition, L2 Pedagogy and Assessment

Germanic Linguistics, Turkish-German identity, Hip Hop Studies, Style and Sociolinguistic Variation, Second Language Acquisition, History of the German Language, Game Studies, ConLangs, Proto-Indo-European, Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies, Resistance Vernaculars

Classical Mythology, Classical Historiography, Greek Epigraphy

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

Russian Literature, Film Studies, Animal Studies, Critical Theory, Posthumanist Theory, Gender and Queer Studies, Psychoanalytic Theory, Intellectual History

Second Language Acquisition, Applied Linguistics, CALL, Electronic media, Cognitive Linguistics

Composition and Rhetoric, Kentucky African American history, Oral History, Jewish Studies, Bourbon, Rhetoric and Writing, Visual Rhetoric and Comics, Israel/Palestine, Jewish Rhetorics, Writing and the Bourbon Industry, Jewish Kentucky

Roman Republic; legal history; rituals

Modern Japanese Literature and Culture, Modernity and Modernism, Film and Visual Studies

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

20th-century German and Austrian literature and cultural studies, German-Jewish culture, medicine and literature, German for the Professions, and gender and sexuality

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

cultural anthropology, Cultural studies, Japan, Okinawa, the U.S.

Greek and Latin literature, Mediterranean/Ancient Greek History, Digital Humanities, Artificial Intelligence

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

Teaching Chinese as a second language, Instructional strategies and best practices, Curriculum and online curriculum development

Second Language Reading and Biliteracy Development, Multilingualism, Chinese applied linguistics, Psycholinguistics, Language assessment and instruction

Women and Gender Studies, Food Studies, SLA, Autobiography Studies

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

Latin Poetry of the Flavian Era, Rhetoric and Poetics in Latin Literature, Epideictic Genre, Latin paedagogy, Latin in Latin America, Brazilian Colonial Literature

Theater and Performance studies, Propaganda, Sino-Japanese cultural relations, Film Studies, Chinese language and culture, Korean language and culture, Gender Politics, intersectionality, Folklore, Popular Culture, 20th Century Music and Literature, the international avant-garde

Latin literature in its continuity and Neo-Latin, 12th century Renaissance, Latin Composition, Latin Pedagogy and Active Latin

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

Early Christianity; Byzantium; rhetoric

Sainthood in Early Islam, Islamic Authority, Social movements in Early Islam, Arabic language pedagogy, TAFL, Early Islamic Texts, Islamic Manuscript Studies

Early modern literature and culture, literary and critical theory, poetics and rhetoric, posthumanism, Film Studies

Premodern Japanese literature, Intersections between literary and visual form, Japanese visual culture

Russian and Soviet history; gender history; cultural history; war and memory

*Professor Popkin is not currently accepting graduate students.*

Rhetorical Delivery, Rhetoric and the Digital Humanities, Jewish Studies, Samaritan Studies, Reciprocal Research, Community Stakeholders

Weimar Modernism, German Film, Post-89 German Literature, Critical Theory, Pedagogy and Second Language Acquisition

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