Kara Barnes
Kara presently researches contemporary stand-up comedy incorporating humor studies, performance studies, critical race theory, sexuality studies, and social/visual culture.
Kimberly Feig
Kim's areas of interest include militarism and visual culture; transnational feminist practices; critical race theory; borders; postcolonial studies; and water polo.
Jennifer Kosakowski
Jen’s research interests include bodies in/at war, phenomenological orientations within war, desire and militarism, ontologies of community, and discourses on militarization and securitization.
Diana Leong
Diana's research interests are situated at the intersections of ecocriticism, settler colonialism and science and technology studies with specific emphases on discourses of sustainability and globalized environmental knowledges. Her work focuses on indigenous and settler communities in the Pacific in general, and on Hawaii in particular.
Shadee Malaklou
Shadee's research interests are both topical and regional. They include: feminist postcolonial critique and Arab gender culture; new media and society in virtual worlds; sex codes and gender relations inside Iran; and fantasy, cultural production, role switching, and subversion as they relate to the Middle East at large.
Megan McCabe
Jimmy Renteria
Jimmy's research interests include transnational studies of sexuality and gender, focusing on queer circuits of cultural exchange between the U.S. and Mexico and feminist analysis of popular cultural forms. His theoretical interests are in: performativity and the materialization of corporeal difference, cultural studies of science, post-structuralism and pedagogy - and hot-fudge sundaes and pugs.
Veronica Riglick
Veronica studies the cultivation of terror and political violence in contemporary democracy, focusing on the Basque Country, domestic national violence and transnational lives of feminist and female subjects and citizens.
Chandiren (Diren) Valayden
Diren's research interests include the colonial and post-colonial history of Mauritius, racial classifications, theories of the state, radical social theory and media and cultural studies.
Mark Villegas
Mark Redondo Villegas is a second-generation Filipino in the United States who is interested in documenting Filipino involvement in hip hop culture. He intends to examine this topic through the lenses of Black language, Latinidad, masculinities, and neocolonial subjectivities.