Chaucer
Medieval literature (including Dante and the Roman de la Rose)
Latin classics and the classical tradition
Biblical commentary
Gender issues in medieval literature
Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Literature
History of Science
History and Theory of the Novel
Eighteenth-Century Aesthetics
Philosophy and Literature
Nineteenth- and Twentieth-century British Fiction, especially James Joyce and Virginia Woolf; Literary Theory: semiotics, deconstruction, psychoanalysis, phenomenology; Media studies and the history of the book; Roland Barthes; Proust
Anglophone literatures of Africa and the Africa Diaspora
South Asian Literature
Litertures of Empire
Post-colonial Theory
Feminist Theory
Literary Theory
American Literatures in English; African, African-American & African Diaspora Studies; Colonial & Post-Colonial Discourse/ Race & Empire/ Black Radical Traditions; Cultural Studies; Body Politics / Gender & Sexuality Studies; Philosophy and Critical Theory
Nineteenth-century American literature and culture
Affect and emotion
Politics of New Materialisms
Sex, gender, sexuality
Critical Theory
Democracy, bureaucracy, populism
British and Irish Modernism; the Transatlantic Twentieth Century; Mid-twentieth-century American Literature; American Modernism; Visual Culture; Literary Theory; the Intersection of the Arts; Artistic Process & the Archive; the Relationship between Biography, Form, and Historical Moment.
American literature; postwar movements in U.S.; arts and culture; the Beat generation; feminist theory; studies of 20th century women; intersectionality
Contemporary American Fiction; Postmodern Literature; Media, Communications & International Journalism; Tech Culture & Social Media Studies; Rhetorical Studies & Public Communication
Contemporary fiction
Nineteenth- and twentieth-century British and European writing
Art and art markets in the context of social crisis
Interrelations between fiction and non-fiction
The bearing of science on visual and verbal art
London in the 18th century. I have been working on a book called "Learning London: How Outsiders become Urban in the Eighteenth Century," for a long time. I keep finding out more, and that keeps me from finishing it. I'm interested in the various ways that people came to London from the country, from other countries (Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Africa, and America) and set out to become "Londonized." To become urban was literally to become nationalized as well, since "London" was the metropolitan center of Britain and Europe. I consult guides, maps, journals, novels and letters in an attempt to locate physically, intellectually and emotionally urban subjects and their progress through the town. I am particularly interested in the social spaces that construct gender, sexuality, class, and racial differences.
I am also interested in working on the 1790's, a time of revolution and counter-revolution in Europe, the Americas, and England. I am particularly interested in Blake, Wollstonecraft, Godwin, also in the Irish Revolution of 1798.
I have several literary works that presently reside in my closet. "The Animals" is a memoir that looks at the way animals have shaped and reflected my family's character. It is comical and tragic. "The Basement Holds up the House" is a gothic study of family relationships. David Tarbet and I have written a mystery set in an assisted living center called "You are Never Too Old to Die."
I have just finished writing "The Burnt Hills," a novel about social change and romantic love in Berkeley, 1969-70. I am sending it out to agents.
I am also interested in working on the 1790's, a time of revolution and counter-revolution in Europe, the Americas, and England. I am particularly interested in Blake, Wollstonecraft, Godwin, also in the Irish Revolution of 1798.
I have finished "The Animals," a memoir that looks at the way animals have shaped and reflected my family's character. It is comical and tragic. I am writing a novel, "The Basement Holds up the House," a gothic study of family relationships.
