Teaching

     Teaching and Research Areas and Interests

Contemporary Theory; History of Criticism; Theories of Globalization and Postmodern Culture; Comparative Poststructuralisms; Twentieth-Century American Literature; Contemporary Poetry and Poetics; History of Poetry and Poetics; Nature of Literary Studies

     Interdisciplinary Areas and Interests

Intellectual History and Historiography, Comparative Literature, Cultural Studies, Continental Philosophy, Postwar Visual Culture, Critical Pedagogy

     Selection of Courses Taught (Variable Topics)

Contemporary Criticism and Theory (G)

Issues in Contemporary Criticism (U)

Major Contemporary Critical Texts (U/G)

Major Texts of Contemporary Cultural Theory (U/G)

Twenty-First Century Cultural Theory (G)

Topics in Cultural Studies (U)

Theories of Postmodern Culture (G)

History of Criticism (G)

Problems in the History of Criticism (U)

Philosophy and Literary Theory (G)

Late Derrida:  Ethics and Politics (G)

Twentieth-Century American Criticism (G)

Modern American Poetry (U)

Contemporary American Poetry (U)

Modern American Fiction (U)

Nature of Literary Studies(U)

Introduction to Poetry and Poetics (U)

Introduction to Critical Reading and Writing (U)

Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies (U)