Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century American Literature

Renaissance Narrative Verse (emphasis on Spenser and Milton)

Moving Image Archiving and Preservation; Film Studies; Silent Film; Classical Hollywood Cinema; Depictions of Sex and Gender in the Media

Post-Colonial Theory; Victorian Literature and Culture; Trauma; Affect Theory

Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Painting

Knowledge and Power, Identity, and the Role of Language in the Construction of National Identity in South Asia and British Colonialism

Post-Colonial Literature and Theory; Victorian Literature and Culture

Twentieth-Century American Literature; African-American Literature (specifically Migration Narratives)

Literature, Poetry and Film as Mirror/Lens for Shifts in Material, Economic, Philosophical, and Cultural Conditions in 19th and 20th Century America; Popular Culture and Consumersim as Text; Existentialist and Modernist Literature

Film History; Film Theory; Gender and Sexuality in Film; Feminist Film Theory

Renaissance Drama; Francis Bacon; Representations of Science and Magic in Early Modern Literature

Medieval Literature; Cultural Studies and Gender Studies

Medieval Literature and Languages; Monstrosity and Otherness; Film; Editing

Twentieth-Century and Contemporary American Literature; African-American Literature; Feminist Theory

Celtic Studies (specifically Welsh Literature)

Twentieth-Century American Literature and Film; Marxist and Postcolonial Theory; Cosmopolitanism

Long Eighteenth-Century; Cultural Studies and Poetics

Film (specifically Art, Avant-garde, Documentary/Mockumentary and Quirky); Individual/Collective Identity Formation; Formalist-Cultural Studies; the Social Construction of Authorship and Audience; Contemporary Fiction and Film; Postcolonial Theory; Popular and Consumer Culture; Medieval Studies (specifically 1350-1400); the Imagination of Subversion and Optimistic Nihilism

New Historicism; Gender/Women's Studies; Victorian Culture and Literature; the Gothic and the Supernatural; Shakespeare (specifically Representations of Women)

Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century American Literature (specifically Issues of Identity, Authorship and the Literary Canon)

Medieval Studies; Chaucer; Middle English; Italian Literature; English Renaissance Literature; Shakespeare

Eighteenth-Century British Literature; British Romanticism; Fairy Tales

Arthurian Tradition; Folklore and Mythology; Medieval Literature and Medievalism; Anglo-Saxon, Celtic, and Old Norse Literary Tradition; Modernism; Religion and Philosophy

Asian-American Literature; Postcolonial Theory

Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century American Literature

Advisor: Dr. John Michael

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Twentieth-Century American Literature; Cultural Studies; Gender and Sexuality

Modern and Post-Modern Literature; Psychoanalysis; Insanity and Monstrosity; Foucault

Nineteenth-Century American Literature; Aesthetic Theory

Medieval Studies; Literature and Language

Medieval Literature; Arthurian Literature; Chivalry; Celtic and Norse Mythology; Popular Culture; Film and Drama

U.S. Literature and Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century; Hemispheric American Studies; Historical Fiction; Narrative Theory

Early Twentieth-Century American Literature

Medieval Studies; Medievalism; New Media Studies; Folklore, Fairy Tale, and Fantasy

Advisor: Dr. Russell Peck

Medieval Studies (emphasis on Arthuriana and Interactions between Stories and Changes in History and Social Mores/Beliefs)

Colonial North American, Latin Americn and Caribbean Literatures; Globalization and Diaspora Studies; Borders and Maps; Critical Theory; Poetics

Twentieth-Century and Contemporary American Literature; Latin American Literature; Gender and Queer Theory; Modernism; Post-Modernism

Alterity; Absence; Robin Hood; Wilderness; Outlaws and Popular Culture

Medieval Literature; Romance; Fairytales; Gender Theory

Romanticism; Literary Productions of Wonder; the Epic

British Romanticism; Poetics; Feminist Studies; Dream Texts; Writing and the Body; Senses and Perception

Twentieth-Century American Literature; Modern Poetry; Narrative, Psychoanalytic, and Trauma Theories; Violence and Representation; War Narratives

Early Modern British Literature and Gender Studies; 19th-Century British Literature; History of Text and Media

Feminist Theory and Jurisprudence; Progressive Literary Movements; Politics and Language; Critical Race Theory; Women Writers; Anglo-Irish Literature

Literature and Language

British Romanticism; Monstrosity; History of Science; Contemporary Horror and Science Fiction Studies

Medieval Literature (specifically Chaucer); Narrative and History

Twentieth-Century American Literature and African-American Literature

Literature and Language

Victorian Literature; Fairy Tales and Folktales; Modern Poetry and Women’s Literature

Medieval Literature and the Crusades

Film Studies; Film Theory; 1970’s American Cinema; Phenomenology; Psychoanalytic Theory; Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century American Literature; Modernism; Deconstructionism

Late Victorian and Twentieth-Century British Literature; Postcolonial Literature and Theory

Nineteenth-Century American Literature (specifically American Romanticism); Literary and Critical Theory (specifically in the Ordinary Language tradition); History of Western Aesthetics in the Confluence of Skepticism and Moral/Ethical Philosophy; Intersections between the Anglo-American/Analytical and Continental Traditions

Personal Website:
http://www.sbriglia.com/

Old and Middle English; Medieval Studies; Arthurian Literature

Nineteenth-Century American Literature; Postcolonial Theory; Globalist Theory

Twentieth-Century Fiction; Cultural Theory; Media Studies; Orality and Form; Agency and the Other in Speculative Fiction

Medieval Literature

Beat Writers and Confessional Poets; Post-World War II Literature (especially 1945-1970); African-American Literature; American Literature via Marxist Theory; Subversive Literature; History of Fantasy Literature; Hero’s Journey

Modernism; Authorship Studies; Gender Studies and Postcolonial Studies

Twentieth-Century American Literature; Contemporary Novels and Short Fiction; Myth; Literature of Exile

Nineteenth-Century British and American Literature; Women Writers; Sentimental Fiction; Victorian Sexuality; Intersections of Politics and Domestic Fiction; Sentimentality and Gender

Romanticism; Identity/Subjectivity; Contemporary Literature; Popular Music

Modern and Contemporary American Literature; Literary Theory; Narrative Theory

Twentieth-Century American Literature; Critical Theory; Modern and Contemporary Poetry; Literature and Technology

Historical Fiction (particularly War Literature); Film Studies; Contemporary Literature

Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century American Literature; Critical Theory; Narrative Theory; Representations of Historical Consciousness