Education of secondary and collegiate English teachers, pedagogical theory and practice about more effective teaching strategies, African American drama and poetry, especially Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun, memoirs of biracial Americans, World Literature, trauma literature and survival stories about the Trojan War, Renaissance Europe, the Armenian genocide, the Eastern European Holocaust from 1938-45, the Vietnam Conflict, Argentina's "Dirty" War, and Rwanda's 1994 Civil War, and Greco-Roman rhetorical approaches to literature.
