Biography Degrees and Institutions Ph.D. Comparative Literature, University of California, Los Angeles B.A. magna cum laude History, University of South Florida Interests African Literature, Environmental Humanities, Climate Change, Speculative Fiction Research Interests and Bio Kirk is a Faculty member of the English Department whose research and teaching focus on African literature and the environment. He …
Biography Research History of prosody in English, mapping vexed interiority, Asian American poetry and poetics since 1890, the American novel since 1945, queer and nonbinary literature and literary forms, comparative race and ethnic studies, the pursuit of happiness, migration, mothers and mothering, beauty and monstrosity, Asian American bitches since 1565, the love poem, forms of …
Interests Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture, Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Drama, Aesthetics, Digital Studies, Surveillance Studies, Media Theory, Philosophy and Literature, Literary Theory Biography Degrees and Institutions PhD, English, Rutgers University, 2011 MA, English, Rutgers University, 2007 BA, English, Ithaca College, 2003 Selected Publications Books Intermediate Horizons: Book History and Digital Humanities, coedited with Heather …
Biography Research Interests feminist disability studies, queer and trans studies, Black studies Degrees and Institutions Ph.D., Indiana University, Bloomington Recent Publications Black Crip Modern: Race, Gender, and the Roots of Disability Consciousness (Forthcoming from New York University Press) “Problem Girls”: Gender Nonconformity as Resistance in Early Disabled Feminist Life Writing. A/b: Auto/Biography Studies, 1–31. (2025) …
Biography Research Interests Discourse syntax, the passive construction and linguistic prescriptivism, Syntactic variation in context, Syntax and semantics of verbs Degrees and Institutions Recent Publications Discourse Syntax: English Grammar Beyond the Sentence. Cambridge University Press, 2022. Syntactic Variation and Genre. Edited by Heidrun Dorgeloh and Anja Wanner. DeGrutyer Mouton, 2011. Deconstructing the English Passive. DeGrutyer …
Director Center for Visual Culture and Performance Studies Interests Modernism, the avant-gardes, and theories of modernity; film and media studies; comparison and transnationalism; labor resistance and collective movements; Latin American studies; science fiction and technology; translation. Biography Degrees and Institutions Teaching: Recent and Future Courses Select Publications Books and Book Projects Media Laboratories: Late Modernist …
Biography Research Interests Writing and identity, the intersections of literacy and rhetorical studies, and Asian American literature and culture. Degrees and Institutions Recent Publications Books: Stephen Parks, Brian Bailie, Heather Christiansen, Elisabeth Miller, and Morris Young, Eds. The Best of the Independent Rhetoric and Composition Journals 2013. Clemson, South Carolina: Parlor Press, 2015. Mao, LuMing …
Interests Asian American and Asian diasporic literature, modern and contemporary poetry and poetics, 20th- and 21st-century American literature, science fiction Biography Photo credit: Carolyn Fath/Isthmus Degrees and Institutions Selected Publications Books Editor Recent Articles Courses Taught English 150: Literature and Culture of Asian America English 373: Contemporary American Poetry English 462: Asian American Graphic Novels …
Biography Research Interests 19th- and 20th-century U.S. literature, with an emphasis on the 19th-c. American novel; economics and literature; moral philosophy and narrative Degrees and Institutions Recent Publications Complicity and the Antebellum Moral Imagination (2026) “Structure, Network, Apocalypse: The Complicity Fiction of George Lippard.” J19 6:2 (Spring 2018) “Complicity, Restorative Justice, and Charles Brockden Brown’s …
Interests Old English, medieval studies, medieval documentary culture, sound studies, media studies, history of the English language, history of the book, Old Norse Biography Degrees and Institutions Ph.D., English Language and Literature, Yale University M.Phil., Medieval Studies, Yale University B.S., English, University of Wisconsin – Madison Selected Publications Epistolary Acts: Anglo-Saxon Letters and Early English …