fiction and film (particularly comic/carnivalesque, parabolic, and visionary modes); literature as a vehicle for metaphysical speculation (and its transmogrification), existential self-interrogation, psychological transformation; and the circulaton between veracular, mass-mediated, elite, & esoteric cultures of paranoid and/or apocalyptic schemas of designation, representation, valorization
Shakespeare; women in the British theatre; connections between early 20th-century British suffrage theatre and the production of Shakespeare's plays; literary theory
Representations of physical and mental illness in literary and non-literary texts; text linguistics and discourse analysis; narrative theory (narratology)
19th-century British literature and culture; women writers and women's literature; multicultural American women's literature; feminist and queer studies
American Indian literatures; American literary history (with a particular emphasis on Modernism); the New Historians; colonial through post-modern oral and written representations; the Western legal system
Early modern drama; Shakespeare and performance; Elizabethan court poetry and transnational politics; Queen Elizabeth I as a learned prince; environmental literature
Women’s literature and feminist cultural studies, particularly feminist theories of the body and global issues; American literature, especially 20th century Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance; autobiography and autopathography
Rhetorical theory; cultural studies; agricultural ecology and sustainable agriculture; rhetorical study of science; theories of rhetorical and cultural agency
Fiction writing; environmental literature; American Indian literature; literature of the American West
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