Contemporary Literature and Culture

Amy S. Barenboim

Research Interests

African American and African Diaspora, Ethnicity, Race, Indigenous Studies, Caribbean, 20th/21st Century American, Contemporary Literature and Culture, Critical Theory, Marxism, Jewish Studies, Theories of the Novel, Geopolitics, Social Movement

Laurie Bashford

Research Interests

Asian American and Asian Diaspora, Global Anglophone, World Literature, Postcolonial and the Global South, Asia/South Asia, Contemporary Literature and Culture, Comparative Literature and Translation,, Theatre, Drama, Performance Studies, Creative Writing, Creative-Critical, Poetry and Poetics, Cultural Studies, Science and Environmental Studies, Law and Humanities

Andy Chan Lisheng

Research Interests

Ethnicity, Race, Indigenous Studies, Asia/South, Contemporary Literature and Culture, Poetry and Poetics, Aesthetics, Cultural Studies, Critical Theory, Affect Theory, Digital Humanities, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Queer Theory, Film, Media, Visual Studies, Psychoanlaysis

Jay Gao

Research Interests

Asian American and Asian Diaspora, African American and African Diaspora, Ethnicity, Race, and Indigenous Studies, 20th/21st Century American, Contemporary Literature and Culture, Poetry and Poetics, Ecocriticism, Creative Writing and Creative-Critical

Justin Huwe

Research Interests

20th-Century British literature and culture, Contemporary Literature and Culture, Theatre, Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies, Drama, Aesthetics, Critical Theory, Disability Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Queer Theory

Pranav Menon

Research Interests

Studies legal and literary imaginations of space and place, American empire, Ethnicity, Race, and Indigenous Studies, American and the Americas, Global Anglophone Literature, Postcolonial and Global South, 20th and 21st Century American Literature, Contemporary Literature and Culture, Poetry and Poetics, Cultural Studies, Ecocriticism, Science and Environmental Studies, Public Humanities, Law and Humanities, Marxism

Kristin Perkins

Research Interests

American and the Americas, 19th Century American, 20th and 21st Century American Literature, Contemporary Literature and Culture, Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies, Modernism, Aesthetics, Cultural Studies, Queer Theory

Channelle Russell

Research Interests

African American and African Diaspora, Caribbean Studies, 20th and 21st Century American Literature, Contemporary Literature and Culture, Creative Writing and Creative-Critical, Aesthetics, Affect Theory, Critical Theory, Black Studies, Cultural and Intellectual History, Feminist Theory, Slavery, Film, Media, Visual Studies, Slavery, Feminist Theory

Connor Spencer

Research Interests

20th/21st Century American,, Contemporary Literature and Culture, novel studies, Aesthetics, Critical Theory, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Queer Theory, Film, Media, Visual Studies, Marxism

Chloe Tsolakoglou

Research Interests

American and the Americas, Global Anglophone, World Literature, Europe, 20th/21st Century American, Contemporary Literature and Culture, Comparative Literature and Translation, Creative Writing, Creative-Critical, Poetry and Poetics, Marxism, Postmodernism, Aesthetics, Modern Greek Literature, Affect Theory, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Queer Theory, Film, Media, Visual Studies, Marxism, Philosophy, Psychoanlaysis, Modern Greek Literature