Cultural histories of migrant and ethnic communities, with a focus on the modern and contemporary Jewish experience;
Language revitalization, specifically in the context of Yiddish civilization and culture in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries;
Jewish migrant and ethnic communities in a comparative framework with other groups and across geographies;
Representations of the Holocaust and its aftermath, in particular in literature, film, theatre and music;
Yiddish cinema within foreign-language film;
Film translation and subtitling, in particular as it pertains in lesser-spoken languages.
