aesthetic theory, art history, black studies, contemporary art, contemporary film theory, critical theory, moving image installation, postcolonial studies, race and the philosophy of media

photography, contemporary art, Art Pedagogy, performance, postcolonial studies, gender, queer, and trans studies, contemporary African Art, South Asian Art, art of the Global South, global modernisms

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.

postcolonial studies, Asian American, South Asian, critical theory, gender and sexuality, cultural studies

art, sculpture, photography, ceramics, social practice, craft, activism, public art, feminism, capitalism, material culture, informal economies, black markets, hacker culture, digital culture, design culture, zines, alternative publishing, archives, libraries, museums, museum display, postcolonial studies, labor history, American history, globalization, the Philippines, Asian American studies, empire, textiles, fashion, ethnography, 1904 World's Fair, Filipino and Filipino American studies, trade routes, science fiction, camouflage, DIY culture