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RESEARCH

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AREAS OF EXPERTISE

 

Literature:

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

  • African-American Thought (Cornel West, James Cone, bell hooks) 

  • Shakespearean Studies (Shakespearean Tragedy, Shakespearean Sonnets)

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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 (Foucault, Derrida, Sartre)

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

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

  • Rhetoric (Classical, Argumentation Theory, Modern)

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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)

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