- Theories of the Novel/Historiography
- Aesthetics/Visual Culture
- Digital and Media Studies
- 18th C Literature and Culture
- South African Literature Politics
- Medieval Literature
- Poetry and Poetics
- Visual Narratives
- The Epic
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- British modernism
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- Contemporary Fiction
- Theories of the Novel
- Literary Theory
- Feminist and Marxist Theory
- World Literature and Film
- Critical Race/Caste Studies
- New Materialisms & Feminisms
- Native American Indigenous Studies
- Creative Writing (Non/Fiction)
- Creative Writing
- Contemporary Fiction
- African-American Fiction & Poetry
- Caribbean Literature
- U.S. Literature especially 1850-1950
- Theories of Gender and Sexuality
- Critical Race Theory
- History and Theory of Popular Culture
- Left Politics and the Arts
- U.S. Literature, “Discovery” to Contemporary Emphasis on 19th Century
- The Disavowal of Modernity (rethinking our critical frameworks)
- Trauma Theory/Critical Race Theory
- Psychoanalytic/Cultural Issues
- New and old Materialisms; Environment/Media