Romanticism, the Long 19th Century, Narratology; Byron, the Shelleys, Keats, Poe.

Modern Chinese History; Hong Kong History; Colonialism and Imperialism in Asia

Music, from Monteverdi to Stravinsky, especially (i) Beethoven, (ii) the intersection between music, philosophy and theology, and (iii) the history of ‘absolute music’; currently working on a post-human manifesto modestly entitled an Intergalactic Music Theory of Everything (IMTE).

European studies, European expansion overseas, English and other East India Companies, British and French colonial history and European imperialism generally, World War I, early modern Atlantic, relationship between Atlantic world and Indian and Pacific Oceans, environmental history, colonial American history as both British imperial and American history, American studies, US-China relations, Americans abroad, naval and maritime history, voyages of exploration, relationship between economic and environmental history, whaling, economic and business history, Suez Canal, coal, pepper, tea and other commodities, St. Helena and the Bahamas in British colonial world.

Early American, British, and European literatures and history; material print culture in a transnational and global historical frame.

History of decorative arts in the 17th and 18th centuries, the social and historic importance of royal French manufacture; the early modern fascination with Chinoiserie, royal workshops and smaller private enterprises that helped to create and cater to this long-lasting fashion; the scientific developments of glassmaking in Qing China, with results from both historical and chemical analysis.

History of women, gender and sexuality in China and East Asia; local histories of Chinese places, transregional migrations of Chinese and global commodities; individual everyday life beyond the totalizing narratives of the nation-state; "the archive", non-written texts, such as visual and material culture and architecture.

Zoonoses, biomedicine, and public health; medicine, science, and technology; human-animal relations; and socio-legal histories.

Economic and business history of modern China.

19th-21st-century cultural history, historiography and practice; postcolonial and world literature and cultural development; theatre studies, performance studies.

Early Modern and Modern Japanese Literature, Emotion, Desire, Sexuality, and Gender, The Novel, Aesthetics and Aesthetic Theory.

European and American art and architecture from the 18th to 20th centuries, especially 19th-century French art; art and Ecology, landscapes, childhood, family, and modern Identity; artistic interactions between Europe and China in the 18th and 19th centuries, Chinese palace of Yuanming Yuan.

Chinese Ci (lyric) poetry, woman writers/poets, Qing-dynasty literature.

Anglican identity in the South China diocese, 1849–1951; Chinese Christianity, nineteenth-century worldwide missions, late Qing history, and the history of colonial Hong Kong.

Gender, politics and the modern United States; women's studies.

National Identity, Cosmopolitanism, English Novels, Victorian Period to Early Twentieth Century

Latin American foundational novels (decimonónica), independence and nation-building, the Cuban Abolitionist novel

Ecocriticism (with a focus on climate change), Romanticism, and epic poetry; contemporary novel, history of the epic, literature and sustainability.

Late imperial and modern China; modern Asia, colonialism and imperialism in Southeast Asia, and Sino-Russian relations; history of Inner Asia from 1600 to the present, comparative history of borderlands and frontiers, and Chinese ethnic minority languages and literatures (including Manchu and Mongolian).

Victorian literature and culture, travel writing (related to China) and critical theory. Women's writing, realist prose.

Sino-foreign interactions; late imperial and modern
China; cross-cultural studies; cultural and historical geography; geocriticism

Modern South Asia and the British Empire; the relationship between violence, law and sovereignty in the context of nineteenth and twentieth century India and the Indian Ocean world; royal amnesty and corporal punishment.

Victorian novels, culture and society, Gaskell; capitalist discourse.

Capitalism and race in US and global perspective.

Colonial legacies, contemporary tourism; travel writing, visual cultures, the colonial picturesque.

Interdisciplinary research, novelistic form, media, identity, literature and culture; Victorian, realism, narratives.

Interdisciplinary studies of literature, history and culture (cultural identity) in both Chinese and western contexts; the Song-Yuan-Ming period, translation.