20th-21st century culture, literature and social theory; Theories & representations of imprisonment, race, crime & masculinity; Sociologies of mass incarceration, race, urbanity & poverty; Literary & cultural theory and criticism; Interdisciplinary methodologies; Ethnography & immersive journalism; Contemporary television; Sociology of knowledge; Cultural & critical criminology
International History in the 19th and 20th Century; Human Rights and Humanitarianism; Popular Culture; Music and Politics; Grassroots and Social Movements
History of Emotions and Sexuality Transnational; History of the Long African American; Civil Rights Movement; Military History as Cultural History; Personal Narratives in Transcultural Perspective; History and Theory of Historiography
Literary theory, essayism, modernism, world literature, American literature of the 20th century, transcultural writing; History of knowledge, gender and queer theory, postcolonial theory, cultural studies, aesthetics; practices of resistance, embodiment, border discourses, ‘minor’ poetics
