Professor of English and Comparative Literature
- Historiography and Historical Writing
- Philosophical Texts & Intellectual History
- Africa & the Caribbean
- Diaspora
- Latin America
- Middle East/North Africa
- US
- C19
- Long Eighteenth Century
- Deconstruction
- Formalism/ Structuralism
- Gender Studies, Women’s Studies, Queer Theory, Trans Theory
- Marxism
- Post-colonial
- Psychoanalysis
- Race and Empire
- Rhetoric, Hermeneutics
- Trauma
Fields of Study
Research Interests:
Critical theory, continental philosophy, transnational American literary and historical studies through the nineteenth century, Latin American studies (especially nineteenth-century Mexico), colonial discourse studies, and Armenian diaspora studies. The Brink of Freedom: Improvising Life in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World (Duke) , The Colonizing Trick: National Culture and Imperial Citizenship in Early America (Minnesota) , Loss: The Politics of Mourning (California), The Aunt Lute Anthology of U.S. Women Writers, Volume One: Seventeenth through Nineteenth Centuries (Aunt Lute Books), Tepoztlán Institute for Transnational History of the Americas, Social Text.