Faculty Research Areas

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)

Film Studies

Iker González-Allende
Spanish and Basque cinemas

Sijia Yao
Chinese literature and film studies

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

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

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)

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