American Fiction from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century: especially Herman Melville, H. P. Lovecraft, Cormac McCarthy, and Mark Z. Danielewski
Modern American Poetry: esp. Walt Whitman, Ezra Pound, H.D., and Susan Howe
Ecocriticism, Geocriticism, and Philosophies of Nature: esp. Friedrich W. J. Schelling, Lorenz Oken, and their contemporary heirs in Speculative Realism and New Materialism
Media Theory, Sound Studies, and Musicology
Material Culture and Popular Culture
Intersections of Literature, Politics, and Philosophy: esp. Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, Jacques Rancière, and François Laruelle