Projects are invited in the following domains:
American literature and culture, especially:
19th and 20th century literature
Gender studies, feminism, queer theory
African American literature and culture
American Gothic, Fantastic or Science Fiction
Popular Culture or Media Studies
Vietnam War, War Literature, War and Film
Eco-criticism, Environmental Issues, Eco-Gothic and Eco-Utopia
Doctoral Thesis Recently Completed
2022 Cécile Heim, Representing and Resisting Violence against Indigenous Women and Girls through the Rougarou, Deer Woman, the Windigo, and B’gwus
2017 Roxane Hughes, Ambivalent Orientalism: Footbinding in Chinese American Literature and Art
2017 Isis Giraldo, Contemporary Fantasies of the Colombian Nation: Beauty, Citizenship and Sex
2013 Joanne Chassot, Ghosts in Contemporary African Diasporic Literature: Re-visioning History, Memory and Identity
Current Doctoral Theses in Preparation
- Rob Green, Deconstructing the Sample Culture: A Socio-Cultural Critique and American Capitalism through Literature, Media, Technology
- Corey Heimlich, The Narco-western Borderlands of Better Call Saul
- Elodie Rogliardo, Black Women’s Afropean Identity: Construction, Exploration and Promulgation at the Crossroad of Relations in Leonora Miano’s, Laura Nsafou’s and Kiyemis’ Afropean Narratives.
- Rama Musa, Of Money, Migration, and Misfortune: Reading Gendered Precarities in Transnational Literature