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literature and cultural history of early-modern and modern Japan

sexuality, history, comparative literature, Slavic language, ideological poetics, history of medicine, Soviet culture, the gothic novel

Civil rights and civil liberties, structural racialization, racial justice and regionalism, concentrated poverty and urban sprawl, opportunity based housing, voting rights, affirmative action in the United States, South Africa and Brazil, racial and ethnic identity, spirituality and social justice, needs of citizens in a democratic society

19th century British, critical theory, poetry

The Russian and European Enlightenment, Russian and European romanticism and modernism, Russian and European avant-gardes, Russian, European, Italian literature, Georgian history and literature, theories of world literature, literary theory, comparative poetics, genre theory, literary history, comparative modernisms and modernities, vernacular and high culture, cultural and political history of Russia-Eurasia and the Caucasus, postcolonial studies, theories of nationalism, imperialism and cosmopolitanism, urban studies, the city and literature

Persian literature, literary theory and criticism, cultural history, Afghanistan

North America: 1763-present, law & society, crime & punishment, prisons, society & culture, capitalism, global foodways

garden history, symbolism, creative and imagination development, perceptual engagements, inclusive methods and mediums to express landscapes

Hebrew literature, Yiddish literature, Jewish history, queer theory, postcolonial theory

Latin America, Caribbean, Atlantic World, cuba, comparative colonialism and slavery

ancient Greek democracy, Roman politics, the history of democracy and constitutionalism

Philippines, theories of liberalism, history and culture of Southeast Asia, austerity in the global south

urban design and planning, design history, social and cultural factors in landscape design

Modern Japanese Literature, literary and cultural theory, aesthetics and politics, Comparative Responses to Violence, literary history

history of political thought, nationalism, collective agency, migration, environmental and climate justice

economics, monetary and fiscal remedies for deflation, open-market purchases in a liquidity trap, exchange rates, monetary policy, international finance, open-economy macroeconomics, macroeconomic history

development economics, political economy, Organizational Economics, economic history

historical biogeography, evolutionary biology, Southeast Asia, population genetics, hummingbirds, functional morphology, vertebrate systematics, phylogenetic analysis, life history evolution, Bayesian methods, Southeast Asian flying lizards

18th century and Romantic British literature, Milton, literature and the history of science, especially medicine

transnational feminism, history and politics of feminist movement, activism, critical approaches to development, political economy, South Asia, Middle East, Global South, United States

modern Spanish literature and culture, critical theory, geopolitics of literature, aesthetics, transatlantic Hispanic studies, theory of the lyric, visual culture

Byzantine studies

culture, politics, English, comparative literature, popular music, history of emotion, French, renaissance and early modern European culture, the romance languages, the ideology of literary genre, the literary construction of nationhood, the rhetoric of historiography