top of page

RESEARCH

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

 

Literature:

  • African-American Literature: 1950s-1960s (Wright, Ellison, Baldwin)

  • American Literature 

  • Early Modern British Literature (Elizabethan, Jacobean, Restoration poetry)

  • Modern Russian Literature (Tolstoy)

  • Shakespearean Studies (Shakespearean Tragedy, Shakespearean Sonnets)

Philosophy and Theory:

  • Ancient Philosophy (Plato, Aristotle)

  • Analytic Philosophy (Wittgenstein, Russell)

  • Continental Philosophy (existentialism, ontology, epistemology, phenomenology)

  • Critical Theory (Structuralism, Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis, Feminism, Gender, Postcolonialism, Marxism, Critical Race, Cultural Studies)

  • Hermeneutics (philosophical, theological, biblical interpretation)

  • Literary Theory (emphasis in applications to Shakespeare)

  • Modern French Philosophy (Derrida, Sartre)

  • Modern German Philosophy (Kant, Hegel, Husserl, Heidegger)

  • Posthumanism (Animal Studies, Philosophy of Technology, Race) 

  • Rhetoric (Classical, Argumentation Theory, Modern)

Theology:

  • Christian and Systematic Theologies (Macquarrie, Bultmann, Rahner, Tillich)

  • Christian Existentialism (Kierkegaard)

  • Existential Theology (Heidegger-influenced: Macquarrie, Rahner, Bultmann, Tillich)

  • History of Christianity (primitive Christianity, the Early Church, Reformation)

  • New Testament (Canonical Texts and Non-Canonical Literature)

bottom of page