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French literature, gender, sexuality, intellectual history, translation studies, Quebec studies, feminism

17th and 18th century French literature and culture, history and theory of the novel, quantitative literary history and digital humanities, history of aesthetics, cinema (French New Wave)

Chinese history (Tang, Song, Liao dynasties), global middle ages, sino-steppe relations, aristocracies, meritocracy, elites, political culture, death ritual, premodern cities, premodern empires, imperialism, ethnicity, nationalism, national identity, social networks, frontiers, boundaries and borderlands, digital methodologies

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

literature and cultural history of early-modern and modern Japan

foreign affairs, voting and elections, journalism, Central America, politics, Balkans, Haiti, documentaries, terrorism, the Middle East, contemporary literature, modernist writers, contemporary literature and film

hemispheric American literature, literary exchanges, anticolonial activism, migration, border crossings, translation, linguistic exchange

Vietnam, Vietnam War, Vietnamese literature, Southeast Asian history, communism, nationalism, colonialism

spatial forms of urbanization, land-use changes

Affordable housing, homelessness, access to credit, community development, the Community Reinvestment Act, neighborhood change, homeownership and mortgage finance (with a focus on low-income and minority households)

East Asian literatures and cinema, gender and sexuality studies, environmental humanities and media theory

literary theory, South and Southeast Asian studies, Sanskrit literature, Indian epic studies, psychoanalytically oriented cultural studies

gametogenesis, biology of aging, gene regulation, genetics, genomics and development

Italian literature, film and media, Italian colonialism, critical theories of race and racialization, borders and mobilities, biopolitics, postcolonial and decolonial theory

world cinema, contemporary art, global cities, aesthetic theory, global cinema, transnationalism and diaspora, night, cinema, Indie Film, screen performance, acting, asian art, asian-american art, asian diasporic culture, psychoanalysis, affect theory

urbanization in the global south, peripheries: urban violence and spatial segregation, urban change, ethnography and qualitative methods

cultural anthropology, Islam, Middle East, theories of subjectivity, postcolonial criticism, anthropology and literature, the Maghreb, mental illness

performance history/historiography, British performance 1650-1800, British literature 1650-1800, disability, gender, social geography, set design

Medieval Studies, Old Norse literature, Viking and medieval Scandinavia, cultural memory, media theory

poetry and poetics, African American literature, intellectual history - 1920s to the present, Black geography/cultural geography

English literature, Shakespeare, English renaissance, Spenser, drama, theater, American film history, film theory and production, critical theory, imperialism, nationalism, mass entertainment, authorship

Native American studies

environmental planning, climate planning, sustainability and resilience, environmental and climate justice, geographic and spatial analysis, urban policy and political economy, global environmental governance, community engagement

classics, ancient philosophy, Greek culture, ancient poetics and rhetoric

Tamil studies, film and digital culture, South Asia, South and Southeast Asian studies, cultural studies of Southeast Asia, South Asian Literature and Culture