Literary biography and criticism, especially 20th century British and American poetry; biographies of John Berryman and William Empson, editions of poetry and prose by Empson.
Elected 2007
Spanish and Latin American cinema, television, and visual culture; literature in Spanish from the Renaissance to the present
English Language and Literature
German literature and culture from the 18th century to the present day; modernist literature, especially Kafka and Thomas Mann; feminist theory and contemporary women's writing