Transnational Literatures
Ikuho Amano: Japanese Reception of European Literary Discourses, Literary and Cultural Modernity in Japan’s transcultural contexts
José Eduardo González: Latin American cultures and literatures
Julia Frengs: Polynesian and New Caledonian writing, indigenous emancipatory discourse
Ingrid Robyn: Caribbean literature and culture, with a focus on contemporary Cuba, the Caribbean diaspora
Luis Othoniel Rosa: Latin American and Puerto Rican literatures of anarchy
Patricia Anne Simpson: Reception of German culture and studies in the colonial and postcolonial world, transnational discourses of violence and extremism
Hana Waisserova: Central and Eastern European women's transnational literature and cultural memory
Iker González-Allende: Iberian literatures and cultures; Basque studies; Spanish exiles and migrations in Europe, Latin America and the United States.
Comparative Literature, Critical and Literary Theory
Ikuho Amano: Literary Theory, Comparative Literature, aesthetics
Jordan Stump: Literary theory
Nora Martin Peterson: Literary theory, comparative literature
Patricia Anne Simpson: Literary theory, comparative literature
José Eduardo González: Literary theory, comparative literature
Luis Othoniel Rosa: Literature and philosophy, literary theory, comparative literature
Julia Frengs: Literary theory
Ingrid Robyn: Neobaroque theory and literature
Creative Writing and Literary Translation, Translation Studies
Ikuho Amano: Literary Translation (Japanese, Italian)
Christina Brantner: Translation of poetry (German)
Ingrid Robyn: Transatlantic and translation studies (Portuguese, Spanish)
Luis Othoniel Rosa: Science fiction, creative writing (Spanish)
Jordan Stump: Literary translation (French)
Pedagogy, Technology in the Classroom, Student Development
Elizabeth Enkin: Second language learning and teaching, with a current specific emphasis on educational/emerging technology (e.g., web-based mobile and virtual reality apps) for language instruction, instructor professional development, outcomes assessment, curriculum design/program direction and Hispanic linguistics.
Edward Dawson: Second Language Studies (German)
Kelly Kingsbury Brunetto: Theatre production (rehearsal and performance) for second language development, second language acquisition and classroom methods and practices, literature and film for second language development, graduate students’ pedagogical development
Lola Lorenzo: Culture and technology in the classroom (Spanish)
Sijia Yao: Teaching Chinese as a foreign language and distance Chinese education, Chinese literature and film studies
Women's and Gender Studies, Queer Studies
Abla Hasan: Islamic feminism, women and gender studies and Arabic studies
Julia Frengs: women’s writing, representations of the body (French/Francophone)
Christina Brantner: Women writers (German)
Iker González-Allende: Masculinities, gender and queer studies (Spanish)
Nora Martin Peterson: Early modern women’s writing, the querelle des femmes
Patricia Anne Simpson: German women writers
Erica Schauer: Queer theory, transgender studies, ritual studies, girls' education, prostitution and the body (French)
Hana Waisserova: Central and Eastern European women transnational literature and cultural memory, women’s totalitarian experience, women’s Holocaust experience, women dissidents
Linguistics
Elizabeth Enkin: Second Language Learning and Teaching, with a current specific emphasis on educational and emerging technology (e.g., web-based mobile and virtual reality apps) for language instruction, instructor professional development, outcomes assessment, curriculum design and program direction and Hispanic linguistics.
Errapel Mejías-Vicandi: Linguistics, syntax, formal semantics, cognitive semantics and pragmatics.
Isabel Velázquez: Sociolinguistic variation, Hispanic linguistics, bilingualism and language acquisition, heritage speaker pedagogy, language contact on the U.S./Mexico border, the role of language in identity formations of U.S. Latinx, linguistic maintenance and loss among Latinx families in the Midwest.
Literary, Cultural and Interdisciplinary Studies, Popular Culture
Ikuho Amano: 20th and 21st-century Japanese literature, economy, material culture, manga, anime, photography
Christina Brantner: Romanticism, the interaction of music, literature and the arts (German)
Julia Frengs: Representations of the body, indigenous empacipatory discourse (French)
Iker González-Allende: 20th and 21st-century Spanish literatures and cultures, exile and migration, national identities, the Spanish Civil War, Basque studies, Francoism and Falange, Memoirs and Letters
José Eduardo González: Popular culture, Recent (21st-century) Latin American literature
Rigoberto Guevara: Latin American modernist poetry, Latin American poetry of human rights, Spanish poetry, Latin American culture and history
Nora Martin Peterson: Early modern French literature and culture, health humanities
Ingrid Robyn: The Latin American avant-garde, comparative studies between literature, visual arts and music, impact of new technologies and regimes of perception in literature and arts
Luis Othoniel Rosa: Puerto Rican and Latin American literature and culture, literature and anarchy
Erica Schauer: Nineteenth-century French studies, girls' education, prostitution and the body
Patricia Anne Simpson: Cultures of violence, exile, popular culture (German)
Hana Waisserova: Czech-American culture in Nebraska
Literatures of the Environment
Edward Dawson: Environmental Humanities (German)
Julia Frengs: Environmental engagement in the Francosphère
Sijia Yao: Chinese eco-literatures
Film Studies
Iker González-Allende: Spanish and Basque cinemas
Sijia Yao: Chinese literature and film studies