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Her teaching focuses on contemporary religious thought, especially feminist and liberation theologies, and religion and art, including contemporary fantasy literature, film, and popular culture.

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Dancer and choreographer Amy Ginsburg has taught at the College of William and Mary, Mary Washington College, and the University of Maryland, and performed in Philadelphia, New York City, and Chicago. Her special interests include modern dance and the history and development of dance in American higher education. She is the department's director of dance.

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She has conducted fieldwork in both Thailand and SW China. As a cultural anthropologist, her research has focused on ethnicity, kinship and religion.Recently, she spent a sabbatical leave studying the religion and ritual of the Nuosu, an ethnic group in China's Yunnan Province.

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Her teaching interests include literature of the Early Modern period, poetry workshop, and Southern Women Writers. Her current research investigates subjectivity and agency in seventeenth-century English poetry. She has written a book on Eudora Welty and is working on a manuscript placing poet Thomas Traherne in the context of seventeenth-century visual traditions.

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She teaches American national government, with special emphasis on mass media and politics, political behavior, and race and gender issues. Her current research analyzes media coverage of women politicians and racial minorities.

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Her courses explore the transformations of Judaism as a living religion and evolving culture from its origins in antiquity through its varied manifestations in the 20th century. Special interests include: Rabbinic literature, Jewish mysticism (kabbalah), women and gender in Jewish tradition, the history of antisemitism, exile and the construction of Jewish identity.

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She specializes in French literature of the 20th century, focusing on the evolution of the modern novel, narrative and feminist theory; and in cinema studies. Her most recent research and publications are in the fields of film, particularly the reconstruction of the Vichy period in French cinema, and in comparative detective fiction. Professor Mellerski teaches in the Film Studies Minor program as well.

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She teaches modern British fiction, 19th century British literature, and literary theory. She is writing a gay cultural biography of the modern British writer E.M. Forster.

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He teaches Restoration and 18th century English literature, linguistics, and African and Commonwealth literatures. His research interests focus upon literature, politics, music, and other arts during the first half of the 18th century in England.

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Sharon O'Brien teaches interdisciplinary courses in the American Studies and English Departments, looking at the multiplicity of American cultures through the lenses of race, class, gender, and ethnicity. The author of a biography of Willa Cather, she is now teaching and writing memoir and personal essay. Teaching and research interests include the politics of memory; illness and narrative; and lifewriting.

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Her teaching interests center on recent U.S. history, urban America, and gender and family history. Research interests include biography and autobiography, oral history, and life-course analysis.

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She is interested in life course studies and systems of socialization (family, education, and religion), with a particular emphasis on comparative family systems and the interaction of gender, class, and race. Other areas of interest include: violence, religion, sex education, stratification, and social policy.

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He is interested in social theory, cultural studies, gender, health and illness, and the sociology of knowledge. Publications have focused on the ethics of academic practice and poststructuralist thought. Current research focuses on the lives of adults with long-term chronic illness.

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Her primary fields are contemporary literature and contemporary critical and rhetorical theory. Specific research interests include the modern to postmodern transition, Chicano/Latino literature, science and literature, and cultural criticism and theory.

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Human variation and adaptation, human osteology, human evolution with an emphasis on the evolution of body size and shape and postcranial anatomy in genus Homo, comparative primate skeletal biology, nutritional anthropology