Tim Dayton
Muriel Rukeyer's Long Poem The Book of the Dead; American Crime Fiction; Marxist Literary and Cultural Theory from Marx and Engels to Ellen Meiksins Wood, Roy Bhaskar, and Fredric Jameson.

Greg Eiselein
Louisa May Alcott and her Cultural Contexts; Social Systems Theory and American Literary and Cultural History; Emma Lazarus, Reform, and American Jewish Women's Poetry.

Carol Franko
KS Robinson's Mars Trilogy; Religion and Science Fiction.

Tanya González
U.S. Latina/o Studies and Ethnic American Literature; the ways literature, film and popular culture represent “otherness” as “monstrous.”

Christina Hauck
Sexual reproductivity in/and Modernist Literature; the stage plays of Marie Carmichael Stopes.

Don Hedrick
Movie trailers and movie advertising; theorizing entertainment value in the early modern period; Shakespeare and gender; masculinity studies; horror and violence in film and literature.

Michele Janette
Asian-American literature, especially Vietnamese-American literature; representation of the Vietnam War; film; graphic novel; feminist activism.

James Machor
Reception Studies; Fiction, the literary marketplace, and nineteenth-century American culture; feminist criticism and the issue of the canon; reader-response and audience-oriented criticism and theory.

Philip Nel
Author of books on Dr. Seuss, Harry Potter, and Postmodernism. Current projects: anthology of radical children's literature; biography of Crockett Johnson and Ruth Krauss.

Bonnie Nelson
Women's Contributions to the Development of the Novel as a Genre; Women's Contributions to the Drama in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Britain.

Donna Potts
Positive Female Media Images in Power Puff Girls; pigs in Irish Literature and Culture; Prostitution in Depression-Era Fort Worth.

Kimball Smith
Medieval and Renaissance literature; medieval and early modern cartography; contemporary fiction.

Alley Stoughton
The relationship between computing and culture.

Lisa Tatonetti
Native American Literature.

Karin Westman
The body in modern contemporary British Literature; U.S. and U.K book publication.

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