Faculty Specializations
Ammiel Alcalay (Comparative Literature, English): 20th Century American Poetry, Literary, Social and Political Movements, Native America, West Coast Culture
Herman Bennett (History) Early Modern Latin American History; The African Diaspora; Early Modern Atlantic History
Jane Bowers (Theatre): 20/21st-Century American Drama and Poetry, Literature and the Law, Gertrude Stein, John Ashberry, Performance Poetry, Avant Garde of the 60's, 70's, 80's, American Dramatic Realism
Stephen Brier (Urban Education) US Social History and New Media Technology
Martin Burke (History): US Intellectual and Cultural History, American Religious History
Kandice Chuh (English) Asian American and Comparative Ethnic Literary Studies; Minority Discourse; Critical/Queer Theory & Critical Race Studies; Aesthetics & Cultural Studies
Alyson Cole (Political Science) Feminist Theory; Politics of Identity; American Political Culture
Cathy Davidson (English) New Modes of Publishing & Communication; Virtual & Distance Collaboration; Rethinking Across the Tradional Boundaries of Higher Education
Marc Dolan (English): 19th-21st Century American Literature, Cultural Studies, Ethnicity in American Culture, Modern American Mass Entertainment
Stuart Ewen (Sociology): 19th & 20th Century American Social/Cultural History, Mass Media, Public Relations
Duncan Faherty (English) Early American Cultural Studies; Circum-Atlantic Studies; 18th & 19th Century US Literature; Textual Recovery
Michelle Fine (Psychology, Urban Education) Participatory Action Research & Studies of Social Injustice & Resistance; Urban Education
Ruth Wilson Gilmore (Earth & Environmental Sciences) Revolution & Reform; Race, Space & Place; Environments & Movements; Prison, Movement of Capital & Labor; the African Diaspora
Matthew Gold (English) Digital Humanities; Scholarly Communication; Networked Rhetoric; Open-Access Pedagogy; 19th-Century American Literature & Culture
David Joselit (Art History) Modern & Contemporary Art
Cindi Katz (Environmental Psychology, Earth & Environmental Sciences) Social Reproduction & Everyday Life; Security & the Environment
William Kelly (English): American Literary History, Cultural Theory, Film and Popular Culture
Thomas Kessner (History): Immigration, Fiorello H. La Guardia, New York City, Urban History, Business History
Wayne Koestenbaum (English): Literary History, Criticism, Theory, Gay and Lesbian Literature and Theory
Gail Levin (Art History): Edward Hopper, Marsden Hartley, American Art and Architecture, American Film and Cultural Studies
Eric Lott (English) African-American Literature & Literary Theory; Cultural Studies, Film & Literature after 1945; 19th-Century US Literature; Popular Culture
David Nasaw (History): William Randolph Hearst, American Youth Culture, U.S. Popular Culture, Journalism, Amusement Industries
James Oakes (History): US History, African American History
Ruth O'Brien (Political Science): American Political Development; Social Movements; Intersectionality & Identity Politics; American Political Thought/Theory
Richard Gid Powers (History): J. Edgar Hoover, the FBI, American Anticommunism, Popular Culture
David Reynolds (English): Walt Whitman, American Renaissance, 19th-Century American Literature and Cultural History, Cultural History of Democracy
Joan Richardson (Comparative Literature, English): 19th-Century American Literature, American Literature and Science, American Modernism, Colonial American Rhetorics, Wallace Stevens
David Savran (Theatre): Modern American Theatre, Gay and Lesbian Theatre
Robyn C. Spencer (History): American History, Post-1945 social movements, civil rights and black power, African American women, urban history
Jeffrey Taylor (Music): Music of the U.S.; Jazz History; Early Jazz Pianists; Music in the Harlem Renaissance; History of Jazz Arranging; Music of Jelly Roll Morton, Duke Ellington, Earl "Fatha" Hines, James P. Johnson, and John Coltrane and Charles Mingus
Neal Tolchin (English): American Literature, Contemporary Multicultural American Novel, 19th-Century American Women Novelists
David Waldstreicher (History) Early & 19th-Century America; Political History; Cultural History; Slavery & Antislavery; Print Culture
Amy J. Wan (English): Composition and rhetoric; Literacy studies; Historiography; History of higher education and disciplinarity; Citizenship studies; Rhetoric of public policy