Global Engagement Faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences
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Below are the research interests of the globally engaged faculty members in our College.
Humanities
Dr. Heather Addison
Teaching expertise
- Film history and culture
Research interests
- The relationship between Hollywood and American culture, with emphasis on representations of the body, international cinema and crafting screenplays
Dr. Julie Apker
Teaching expertise
- Organizational communication and health communication
Research interests
- Physician communication patterns and strategies that affect patient safety
- Development and negotiation of caregiver roles
Dr. Sandra Borden
Teaching expertise
- Communication ethics
- Media theory
Research interests
- Journalism ethics with a focus on the application of virtue theory and communitarian theory to the practice of journalism
Dr. Sue Ellen Christian
Teaching expertise
- Newspaper reporting and writing
Research interests
- Newspaper reporting and writing with an emphasis on health and minority issues
Dr. Autumn Edwards
Teaching expertise
- Interpersonal communication and communication theory
Research interests
- Interpersonal communication and communication theory with a focus on the influence of individuals' personally-held theories of communication on aspects of community life, relational health and personal well-being
Dr. Chad Edwards
Teaching expertise and research interests
- Communication in the teacher-student relationship, educational philosophies and transformative communication practices
Dr. Richard Gershon
Teaching expertise
- Telecommunications and business strategy, communication theory and innovation
Dr. Richard Junger
Dr. Joseph Kayany
Teaching expertise
- Mass communication
- New communication technologies
Dr. Marilyn Kritzman
Teaching expertise
- Argumentation and debate
- Public speaking
- Event planning
- Customer service
- Volunteer recruitment and retention
- Mediation
Dr. Steve Lipkin
Teaching expertise
- Film theory and mass communication theory
Dr. Jennifer Machiorlatti
Teaching expertise
- Media production
Research interests
- Documentary
- Aboriginal/first nation and native media
- Environment and communication
- Feminist influenced media
Dr. Leah Omilion-Hodges
Dr. Mark Orbe
Teaching expertise
- Interpersonal communication
- Communication and diversity
- Intercultural communication
Research interests
- Co-cultural communication
- Intergroup relations
- African American communication
- Mass media representations of underrepresented group members
- Negotiation/intersection of multiple cultural identities
Dr. Kathleen Propp
Teaching expertise
- Small group decision making
- Organizational communication
- Conflict management
Research interests
- Decision making in team settings; communicative factors impacting the quality of decisions, in particular, the ways in which groups process information and how gender and status differences bias this process
- Specific forms of communication which enhance the quality of decisions in organizational teams
- Organizational socialization and understanding perceptions of conflict revealed by metaphor use
Dr. Patric Spence
Dr. Jocelyn Steinke
Teaching expertise
- Science communication
- Images of women scientists in the mass media
Research interests
- The influence of media images of women scientists and engineers on adolescent girls' conceptions of gender roles and their occupational aspirations
Dr. Stacey Wieland
Dr. Kathleen Wong
Dr. Blain Auer
Teaching expertise
- Islamic studies
Research interests
- Religious, cultural and historical dimensions of Islamicate societies
- Islam in pre-modern South Asia
- Representations of Islamic authority exhibited in the Qur'an, Hadith, exegesis, and history writing produced during the Delhi Sultanate.
- Modern ritual, pilgrimage and relics connected with the burial places of the special dead in Islam
Dr. Stephen Covell
Teaching expertise
- Japanese religions
Dr. Jue Guo
Teaching expertise
- Chinese religions
Dr. Rudolf J. Siebert
Teaching expertise
- Critical theory of religions
Research interests
- Critical theory of subject, society, culture and history of the Institute for Social Research at the Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Universität
- Critical theory of religion as an integral part of the critical theory of modern society
- Critical theory of different paradigms of Judiasm and Christianity, as well as Greek to Roman religions, in particular, political-theological tendencies in Greek religion, Roman religion, Judiasm and Christianity
Dr. Kevin Wanner
Teaching expertise
- Medieval Christianity
Research interests
- Medieval Christianity, with particular focus on the pre- and post-conversion religion and culture of Scandinavia
Dr. Brian Wilson
Teaching expertise
- American religious history
Research interests
- Religion in America, with emphasis on religion in the Midwest, religion in the Yankee Diaspora, and 19th century New Religious Movements
- Theory and method in the academic study of religion
Dr. Jon Adams
Teaching expertise
- 20th century American literature
- Gender and sexuality studies
- Cultural studies
Research interests
- Studies in American representation of war, gender and masculinity
- American culture, specifically the cultural meanings of manhood and heroism as they inform American national identity
Dr. Elizabeth Amidon
Teaching expertise
- Children's literature
- English education
Research interests
- Children's literature and English education, in particular, international children's literature
Dr. Thomas Bailey
Teaching expertise
- 19th century British fiction
- American autobiography
Research interests
- Development of the English novel, Romantic and nature poetry
- American autobiography
- Contemporary American nature poetry and nature writing
Dr. Beth Bradburn
Teaching expertise
- Milton
- 17th century British literature
- Cognitive theory
- Poetry
Research interests
- Cognitive approaches to English literature studies
- Representations of consciousness in 17th century narrative
Dr. Ellen Brinkley
Teaching expertise
- Composition and reading theory
- English education
Dr. Jonathan Bush
Teaching expertise
- English education
- Rhetoric and writing studies
Dr. Margaret Dupuis
Teaching expertise
- Renaissance drama and poetry
- Shakespeare
- Pedagogy
- Women's studies
Dr. Philip Egan
Teaching expertise
- Children's literature
- English education
Research interests
- American fiction
- Pedagogy
- Advising
Dr. Nancy Eimers
Teaching expertise
- Creative writing
- Contemporary poetry
Dr. Anthony Ellis
Teaching expertise
- Renaissance literature
Research interests
- Anglo-Italian relations in the 16th and 17th century
- Representations of old age and the aging process in early modern drama
Dr. Eileen Evans
Teaching expertise
- American literature
Dr. Brian Gogan
Teaching expertise
- Rhetoric and writing studies
Research interests
- Areas of writing: public, professional, letter, grant
- Critical theory
- Baudrillardian rhetoric
Dr. Jaimy Gordon
Teaching expertise
- Fiction and poetry writing
Dr. Paul Johnston, Jr.
Teaching expertise
- Sociolinguistics
- Dialectology
- Historical linguistics
Research interests
- How language variation interplays with social groupings (class, gender, age, ethnicity) in different periods of the history of English and Germanic as a whole
- Internationally-recognized authority on Scots and Northern English dialects
Dr. Katherine Joslin
Teaching expertise
- American literature
Research interests
- American fiction and non-fiction at the turn into the 20th century with cross-disciplinary interests in material culture and social and political history
- Teaches courses on women writers as well as surveys of American literature and culture
Dr. Richard Katrovas
Teaching expertise
Creative writing (poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction)
Dr. Thomas Kent
Dr. Cynthia Klekar
Teaching expertise
- 18th century British literature
- Cultural studies
- Cultural anthropology
Research interests
- Intersections between gift exchange and capitalism
- Theories of benevolence
- Systems of obligation in the literature and culture of 18th century England
Dr. Todd Kuchta
Teaching expertise
- Modern British literature
- Victorian studies
- Ethics and literature
- Narrative theory
Research interests
- Imperialism, race, class and the relationship between narrative and place since the 19th century
- Terrorism in modern British, postcolonial and contemporary fiction
Dr. Jil C. Larson
Teaching expertise
- Modern British literature
- Victorian studies
- Ethics and literature
- Narrative theory
Dr. Casey McKittrick
Teaching expertise
- Film interpretation
- African American literature
- Queer studies
Research interests
- Developing queer theory of child spectatorship in contemporary film, in the context of ongoing discussions of pedophilia and child endangerment in America
Dr. Lisa Minnick
Teaching expertise
- Language variation ans change
- History of the English language
- Critical linguistics
- Language attitudes and standardization
- Linguistic applications to literature
- Discourse theory and analysis
- African American language and literature
- American literature after 1865
Dr. Mustafa Mirzeler
Teaching expertise
- African oral tradition
Research interests
- African historical tradition and folktales
- African historiography
- Colonial encounters
- Turkish folklore and literature
- African travel writing
Dr. Christopher C. Nagle
Teaching expertise
- 18th and 19th century British and Irish literature
- Critical theory
- Gender and women's studies
Thisbe Nissen
Teaching expertise
- Fiction
- Non-fiction
Dr. William C. Olsen
Teaching expertise
- Creative writing
- Poetics
- Contemporary poetry
Dr. Staci Perryman-Clark
Teaching expertise
- English and rhetoric and writing studies
- African American language and pedagogy
Research interests
- Culturally-relevant pedagogies
- Teacher-research
- Rhetoric and composition
- First-year writing
Dr. Judith Rypma
Teaching expertise
- Children's literature
- Creative writing
Research interests
- Teaching courses in mythology, folklore, world literature, and literature for children and adolescents
- Folklore of mineralogy
- Slavic myths and tales
- Russian literature and culture
- Poetry for young people
Dr. John Saillant
Teaching expertise
- Early American and African American studies
- American religion
Dr. Eve Salisbury
Teaching expertise
- Medieval literature and language with emphasis on Middle English and Latin
Dr. Jana Schulman
Teaching expertise
- Old English and Old Norse languages and literatures
- Medieval women
- Epic
Research interests
- Teaches Old English (introduction and seminar), Old Norse (introduction and seminar), Medieval literature, British literature I, and Western World literature
- Law and literature in Medieval Iceland and Anglo-Saxon England
- Women and epic
Dr. Scott Slawinski
Teaching expertise
- Early American literature
- African-American literature
- History of the book
- Gender studies
Research interests
- Colonial and early Federal periods
- Teaching interests range through the 19th and early 20th century
Dr. Gwen Tarbox, associate professor of English
Dr. Charlotte Thralls, professor of English
Dr. Grace Tiffany, professor of English
Dr. Richard Utz, professor of English
Dr. Karen Vocke, associate professor of English
Dr. Daneen Wardrop, professor of English
Dr. Allen Webb, professor of English
Dr. Nicolas Witschi, associate professor of English