Research focus: Dr. Black's work on iconography in the Renaissance
explores the cultural dimensions of texts involving the interplay of word
and image.
Research focus: Dr. Britt's work on contemporary American narrative
integrates research on novels, non-fiction novels, the mass media, and
the ideology of the law in American culture.
Research focus: Dr. Carlson's current research includes cross-cultural
issues of language and discourse communities; he applies theoretical approaches
to contemporary popular culture.
Research focus: Dr. Ching's research focuses on the distinctions
between high and low culture as they are articulated and sometimes questioned
in enlightenment and contemporary texts.
Research focus: Dr. Easson considers verbal and visual texts according
to their publication history and /or their interdisciplinary contexts.
Her work frequently focuses on issues of class and gender.
Research focus: Dr. Martin specializes in literary allegory; the
epic tradition and its later development through the Romantic period; and
the history of science, philosophy, and economics as they are mediated
in poetic/cultural texts of the renaissance and Reformation periods.
Research focus: History of American film forms as emblematic representations of cultural concerns paralleled in the culture at large.
Research focus: O'Donnells's textual scholarship applies the theoretical aspects of acknowledging the multiple versions of a literary text. His current collaboration in designing an hypermedia electronic edition of the poems of W.B. Yeats brings new rhetorical perspectives in presenting text and corollary information.
Research focus: Dr. Plunka's scholarship represents research on
the literary and cultural aspects of dramatic art. His work also explores
technical editing as theory and practice.
Research focus: Dr. Shaheen's work on Shakespeare's and Spenser's
biblical references have become standard reference works for students of
Shakespeare and Spenser, and are the definitive works in their fields.
Research focus: Dr. Tucker's work in the fields of biography, and non-fictive forms of writing, and women's literature explores the process and cultural formation of texts.
Research focus: Dr. Wagner's research in the nineteenth-century
British literature considers the cultural and historical circumstances
of surrounding literary texts.