Western Europe

Specializes in state formation, social theory, science and technology studies, nationalism, sociology of culture, archaeology, art/science studies, and ethnographic methods.

Specializes in Ancient Greek Philosophy and has substantial side interests in Contemporary Aesthetics, Epistemology and Applied Ethics.

Specializes in Greek and Roman political and social history, especially as they intersect with (or are illuminated by) law.

Specializes in how identities are formed and performed in Greek prose, the imperial-colonial encounter between Rome and Judea, the use of feminist theories in the analysis of ancient tests, Greek rhetoric and historiography, trauma and mental health in antiquity, and the reception of Greek and Roman antiquity in American race formations.

Specializes in the literature and cultural history of post-classical Greece, including the texts, treatises, and rhetorical exercises at the heart of ancient education, and how the various stages of schooling from grammar to rhetoric shaped the reception and literary criticism of canonical texts

Specializes in French as a foreign language.

Specializes in French language instruction.

Specializes in historical linguistics, sociolinguistics,dialectology, foreign language teaching and pedagogy, phonetics and language endangerment.

Specializes in New Testament and Early Christian Literature, Christian Apocrypha, Apocryphal Acts, Ancient Greek Popular Literature, Religions of Roman Empire

Specializes in German as a foreign language

Specializes in German language instruction.

Specializes in North-Western Europe and the Mediterranean world in late antiquity and the earlier Middle Ages, with a concentration upon the period c. CE 700-950 Carolingian Europe; post-Roman Britain; the Viking world; early medieval diasporas; political thought and practice; historiography; travel, cross-cultural communication, and diplomacy

Specializes in contemporary political theory, especially issues in analytical and normative theory, and the history of political thought. He teaches courses in both areas: in the history of political thought, focusing on the liberal tradition and Greek political theory, especially Plato; in contemporary, in specific aspects of liberal theory, including problems of political obligation and the theory of John Rawls and Rawls’s critics

Specializes in Greek history and Roman history

Specializes in Christian thought, esp. Augustine and the Augustinian tradition; religious ethics, esp. comparative religious ethics; religion and culture; religion and politics; evil and sin.

Specializes in how liberal democracies can become more inclusive and just. Her current book project is on multiculturalism and women's rights in France, Canada and South Africa. She previously published on women's rights in South Africa, Poland, and Chile.

Specializes in modern world history, 20th century U.S. history, and American foreign policy. He has previously published on statecraft in Germany and Europe.

Specializes in the internal history of the Spanish language

Specializes in 18th c. French Literature and Culture: Libertine novels, Theater and the poetics of Theater, Dictionaries, Pamphlets and Polemical Genres, Roland Barthes and other «French Theorists», Representations of sacrifice and self-sacrifice in literature, philosophy and politics during the Age of Reason and the French Revolution, (Mis)representations of America in French literature and culture from the 18th to the 21st century

Specializes in Gallo-italian dialectology, French phonetics (articulatory and perceptual), phonological variation, historical linguistics, applied linguistics, languages in contact, French sociolinguistics, French lexicography and foreign language learning

Specializes in German autobiography, memoir, GDR literature, Lyric Judaic studies, feminist theory/ies

Specializes in Contemporary German Literature; German Romanticism; Science, Media and Technology; Environmental Studies

Specializes in the Enlightenment, especially Voltaire, colonial Louisiana (1710-1803), the satirical tradition, French aesthetics, and the history of New Orleans

Specializes in Hispanic linguistics, especially linguistic variation in Late Latin and Early Romance (Castilian, Leonese, and Portuguese), the consolidation of verb-object in Hispano-Romance, and the sociolinguistic milieu pertaining to the writing practices of the Iberian notaries of the High Middle Ages (eighth to thirteenth century)

Specializes in European Romanticism and Enlightenment, European Intellectual History, Media Studies, Social and Cultural Theory

Specializes in opera, classical music, and folk music of the U.S. and Europe

Specializes in Modern Europe, Modern European History of Ideas, Historical Theory/Philosophy of History

Specializes in medieval French hagiography and new technologies

Specializes in collective memory, critical theory, transitional justice, and postwar Germany

Specializes in Italian and Mediterranean visual and print cultures in the medieval and early modern eras

Specializes in Ancient Greek religion, Hellenistic poetry, and the interaction between the texts and their historical, religious and social contexts.

Specializes in intersection between music theory and literary and cultural theories, nineteenth-century music, program music, French music at the fin de siècle, Schenkerian analysis, memory studies, Wagner (The Ring, Lohengrin, and Parsifal), the interarts, humor, and the analysis of music-text relations in art song

Specializes in 20th- and 21st-century French and Francophone Literature, Feminist and Gender Theory, Women’s Writing, Autobiographical Writing, French Language and Pedagogy

Specializes in Legal History, British, Imperial, and Global History, 1500-1850

Specializes in Nineteenth-Century French literature and culture; French Cinema; the senses, olfaction, and perfume

Specializes in Modern Europe, Cultural History, Nationalism, Cold War, European Studies

Specializes in Early Modern Europe, Reformation, visual and aural cultures

Specializes in Modern Britain and British Empire; science and technology; war and violence; intellectual and cultural

Specializes in self assessment in the Italian classroom, ePortfolios and their possibilities, social media and their use in the classroom, Italian language pedagogy, Sherlock Holmes and mystery novels

Specializes in Medieval German literature, German pedagogy

Specializes in late-medieval French literature and culture

Specializes in early and Medieval Christianity; religious and cross-cultural interaction in Late Antiquity; biblical interpretation; theories of gender, sexuality and the body; ritual purity; monasticism and asceticism; book culture

Specializes in Mediterranean Art and Archaeology, particularly ancient Greek vase painting, the iconography of performance and the relationship between art and religion

Specializes in factors affecting the size and role of government in selected cases in Western Europe and also the United States, and how they influence conservative attempts at reform of welfare states

Specializes in waste and space, memory and modernity in post-dictatorship Spanish cultural production, including photography, documentary, narrative, comics, film and television

Specializes in Italian Children’s Literature, Media, and the History of Childhood in Italy, Film Adaptation and Italian Cinema and Television, Italian American Studies, and Italian-Language Pedagogy

Specializes in modern European art and art historical theory and methods

Specializes in ethics and political philosophy, with particular attention to moral psychology and Aristotelian ethics

Specializes in Environmental Humanities and ecocriticism, Italy

Specializes in literature and culture of sixteenth-century France and early modern Europe, gender, sexuality, and queer studies; women’s writing; and the history of religion.