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Arabic language and literature; Arabic linguistics; teaching Arabic as a foreign language; Arabic teacher training; Lebanon
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Samer Ali, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Arabic Studies
Department of Middle Eastern Studies
College of Liberal Arts
CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-475-6467
E-mail: saali@mail.utexas.edu
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Arabic literature, art, culture, politics; Islamic religion, Quran, women and gender in Islam; Arabo-Islamic history and civilization.
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Eighteenth-century literature and culture; the British novel; book history; textual studies; Jane Austen; early fiction by women.
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American literature 1865-1914; American literary realism; masculinity in American literature; Henry James, Edith Wharton, William Dean Howells, Stephen Crane
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Eighteenth-century British literature and culture; representations of World War II in literature, film and journalism
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Douglas Biow, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of French & Italian
Department of French & Italian
College of Liberal Arts
CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-471-7267
E-mail: biow@mail.utexas.edu
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Italian language and literature; Renaissance culture and cleanliness; Dante
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Renaissance studies; gender and national identity in early modern France; reception of the classical tradition; epistolary literature; rhetoric; early modern European poetry; instructional technology
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Randy Bomer, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Curriculum and Instruction - Language and Literacy Studies
College of Education
CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-232-4861
E-mail: rbomer@mail.utexas.edu
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Writing; politics of literacy; sociocultural theory; curricula in reading and writing
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20th-century comparative Western European and U.S. literature; cultural studies, gender and memory; Holocaust; modern Dutch and modern Jewish literature and culture; ethnic minorities in Europe; cultural memory, trauma, race and gender.
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20th Century American poetry and fiction; Digital Humanities; Literary Theory;
Literature and Medicine; Narrative Medicine; Bibliotherapy; Modernism; 20th
Century Popular Culture; Indie Music; Standardized Testing (especially the
SATs); Essay evaluation; Holistic Scoring; Admissions Essays.
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Shakespeare, English Renaissance literature
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Literature; nature writing; emotional literacy; family systems and literature; Victorian literature, especially the interaction with India; Gerard Manley Hopkins; computers and English studies, including social networking and multi-player online games
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American literature: Hawthorne, Emerson, Dickinson, Poe; John Brown; humanities; masculinity
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Irish literature, politics and culture; Modern poetry, Women''''s Studies; Drama and Film; Shakespeare; W.B. Yeats, representations of only children, and representations of clerical child abuse.
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Medieval Latin literature and manuscripts; history of
rhetoric; history of premodern pedagogy; use of historical exercises
in the modern classroom
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American food cultures; foodways; Thanksgiving; Appalachian literature, Texas barbecue; food studies, feminist theories, ecological literature and culture, Appalachian Studies, Southern Studies, material culture studies, and the intersections of race, class, and gender in American literature and society
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Maria Franquiz, PhD
Associate Professor
Curriculum and Instruction: Bilingual and Bicultural Education
College of Education
CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-232-5670
E-mail: mfranquiz@mail.utexas.edu
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Bilingual education; biliteracy; ethnographic and sociolinguistic research; Latina/o children''s and adolescent literature; migrant education; Latina/o teacher identity
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Modern British and American Literature; the novel; Shakespeare; cultural and literary attitudes toward death.
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Steve Friesen, Ph.D.
Louise Farmer Boyer Chair in Biblical Studies
Department of Classics
College of Liberal Arts
CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 471-8629
E-mail: friesen@mail.utexas.edu
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Early Christianity; Corinthian society; Apostle Paul; New Testament; Biblical Greek; Revelation; Apocalyptic literature, Religious Studies; Poverty and Inequality in Early Roman Empire; Apocalyptic Literature; Imperial Cults
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Renaissance literature; foodwriting
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Roman Literature and Civilization; Classical Tradition in Popular Culture;
Greco-Roman antiquity; classical heritage of America; post-tenure review legislation
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American intellectual history; American cultural and Western history; American West; Western and American art history; history of science and exploration; documentary film making; Texas art
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Don Graham , Ph.D.
Professor of English
Department of English
College of Liberal Arts
CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-471-8387
E-mail: dgbb@mail.utexas.edu
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Texas literature; Texas film; Australian literature; Australian film; American literature; Southwestern American Literature and Film.
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Contemporary Hebrew literature and comparative Jewish literatures (Hebrew, French, English)
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American literature; modern American fiction; detective and crime novel
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Islam in South Asia; Urdu language and literature; aesthetics in South Asia and the Middle East
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Children's literature; intellectual freedom; public library service for children; school libraries
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Constitutional Law, constitutional design, emergency powers and constitutional theory, torture and the law.
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Cultural studies; Chicano literature; anthropology and literature; Mexicans in the United States; U.S.-Mexico cultural relations; critical theory; folklore and popular culture.
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Gender and the Study of Latin American Literature, Latin American Jewish Studies, On-Line Scholarly Resources, Translation, Sociology of the Arts, Latin American narrative; Jewish studies.
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Shakespeare; Shakespearean production; Shakespeare on film; Drama; Theatre; Art & Humanities; Chekhov
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LGBT literature and culture, women writers, feminism, 18th-century British and
American literature, landscape and garden history, poetry.
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Japanese literature film and animation; gender issues; constructions of the body; fantasy and science fiction
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J. Patrick Olivelle, Ph.D.
Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities
Department of Asian Studies
College of Liberal Arts
CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-471-5811
E-mail: jpo@uts.cc.utexas.edu
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History of Sanskrit Literature; Law and Society in India; Methods in Study of Religion; Sanskrit Culture; History of Hindu Religious Traditions; Ancient to Medieval Indian cultural history.
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Chican@ literature; American literature; popular culture; cultural studies; film
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Guy Raffa, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of French & Italian
Department of French and Italian
College of Liberal Arts
CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-471-5531
E-mail: guyr@uts.cc.utexas.edu
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Dante Studies, medieval Italian literature and culture, digital humanities, history and philosophy of science, Italo Calvino and Umberto Eco, 20th century Italian fiction; Medieval Italian literature.
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English and continental Renaissance literature; Renaissance rhetoric; Shakespeare; Machiavelli; Boccaccio
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Cory Reed, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
College of Liberal Arts
CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-232-4512
E-mail: creed@mail.utexas.edu
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Literature (especially of Spain, Cervantes, Golden Age); study abroad; interdisciplinary programs; Spanish language and culture (Spain); Cultural links between Spain, Mexico, Morocco, and the Southwest; Interaction between Islam, Christianity, Judaism in middle ages and Early Modern period
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Rhetoric; argumentation; grammar; writing; style; Shakespeare; automobile in American culture, Arts & Humanities.
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Chaucer; the history of Chaucer studies; the textual environments of medieval literature; Medieval Literature; Medieval Romance; Bibliography and Textual Studies; Literary Theory; Women, Gender, and Literature;
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William Scheick, Ph.D.
J. R. Millikan Centennial Professor of English Literature
Department of English
College of Liberal Arts
CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-471-8383
E-mail: scheick@mail.utexas.edu
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Colonial American literature and culture; Puritan American Literature; Turn-of-the-century English and American literature and culture; Arts & Humanities.
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20th century French literature and film postcolonialism; Samuel Beckett Marguerite Duras Claude Simon Maghrebi French writers and directors, New novel, New wave, Theater of the Absurd, Arts & Humanities; communication.
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Spanish literature; Spanish culture; Spain''''''''s early women writers; oral literature, Arts & Humanities.
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African American and African Diaspora Studies; Nineteenth Century US Cultural History; Law and Literature; Slavery and Post-Emancipation Cultures; Cultural Memory
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Richard Wagner''''s Ring of the Nibelung; Scandinavian culture and civilization; Sami culture and civilization; Old Icelandic language; Norwegian language and literature
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Painting and literature in 19th-Century Europe; 19th-century French novel; French women writers of 19th-century; Bildungsroman in Europe; the history of art criticism; women''''''''s studies; female artists; Comparative Literature, Arts & Humanities.
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20th century Persian literature; comparative literary history and criticism; methodology and practice of literary translation
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