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Russian and Czech literature, semiotics, structuralism. Russian Formalism: A Metapoetics.

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Victorian and modernist literature, with special interests in the novel, law, trauma, and visual culture studies. The Copywrights: Intellectual Property and the Literary Imagination (Cornell UP, 2003).

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18th-century German literature, art, history of medicine, queer theory and gender studies.
 

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Film theory, war and the academy, violence and media, community media, animation theory, feminism and terrorism, death penalty photography, the relationship between cinema and contemporary art, and cinematic tempo.
 

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20th century modernism, Joyce, psychoanalysis, critical theory. Joyce Upon the Void: The Genesis of Doubt.

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20th century French literature, the modern novel, narratology. Narrative as Theme, Guide du roman de langue française (1901-1950).

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Classical Indian literature and aesthetics, with a special focus on Sanskrit poetry and poetics; the regional cultures of South Asia; Indian philosophy; myth; critical theory and translation studies. Text to Tradition: The Naisadhiyacarita and Literary Community in South Asia (Columbia University Press, 2014).