Research Focus
- 19th and 20th Century American Literature and Culture
- Hemispheric American Studies
- Jazz
- Critical Theory
- Kenneth Burke, Ernst Bloch, Bertolt Brecht; relations of anarchism, Marxism, and literature.
- The persistent modifications of utopian, anarchist, and Marxist thought
- The development of hemispheric American Studies
- Literature and historiography
- The use by literary artists of the "type," as distinct from the psychologized character
