Research Interests

Faculty engage a wide range of research interests. The sample fragments below highlight just a few of these exemplary pursuits:

• The national, transnational, and postcolonial narratives in the period during and after the U.S./Vietnam War written by American and Vietnamese journalists, novelists, poets, and visual artists. (Dr. J. Burbick)
  
• The interconnectedness among rhetoric (in its broadest sense), ideology, and racism, and their manifestation in literacy and literacy practices. (Dr. V. Villanueva)
  
• Currently working on a special issue of the journal Rhizomes, entitled "Feminism's Others," that will showcase scholarship outside the usual boundaries of academic feminisms. (Dr. C. Siegel)
  
• Modern anglophone writers of South Asia, like Salman Rushdie and Anita Desai. (Dr. P. Brians)
  
• The Shakespeare authorship controversy, medieval and renaissance arts and
  humanities, and popular culture such as dinosaur films and kids' toys. (Dr.
  M. Delahoyde)

• Publishing in the areas of film, globalization, gender issues, political economy, South Asian feminism, and postcolonial literature. (Dr. P. Narayanan)
  
• Multimedia narrative performance and installations; ephemeral writing
  and technologies; and electronic literature. (Dr. D. Grigar)
  

Read more about the research interests in the faculty biographies.