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)
Ingrid Robyn
Transatlantic and translation studies (Portuguese, Spanish)
Luis Othoniel Rosa
Science fiction, creative writing (Spanish)
Jordan Stump
Literary translation (French)
Film Studies
Iker González-Allende
Spanish and Basque cinemas
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
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
Julia Frengs
Environmental engagement in the Francosphère
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.
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
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.
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)
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