Research Interests
- African American Literature
- American Literature
- Australian Literature
- British Literature
- Canadian Literature
- Dystopian Literature
- Ecocriticism
- Filipino American LIterature
- Gothic Literature
- Indian Literature
- Irish Literature
- ISLAMIC CONTEMPORARY STUDIES
- J. R. R. Tolkien
- Literary magazines
- Literature and Music
- Modernism
- New York Downtown Writing
- Post Colonial Literature
- Post Modern Literature
- The Novel
- Assessing Amount/Kinds of Creativity of New Forms/Genres/Plots/Publications
- Bloggings, Social Webbings, & Other Emergent Writing/Reading Forms
- Creative Nonfiction
- Editing
- Fiction Writing
- Genre Blends and Embeddings
- Non Fiction Writing
- Re-Writings of Prior Works: same macro-structure re-imaged/re-expressed
- Reality Fictions--messing up traditional mythic plot and genre sequence elements
- Web Enabled/Inspired New Ways to Compose: Wiki, Blog Summaries, etc.