English Literature: Shakespeare,life and works, Shakespearean Studies: cultural and political content of maxims, statements of wisdom, existential essence, English Drama 16th-17th century, Shakespearean narration, plot and character development, Staging Shakespeare, Intellectual influences of the Renaissance on Shakespeare and politics , Philosophy in Shakespearean context, Roman Catholic and Anglican elements in dramatic morality and ethics.

Victorian studies, English Intellectual History 19th c, The Literature of Race and Gender in Victorian England, Historical Anthropology 19c,Political and Social Elites and Empire, Roots of European Racism, Sir Richard Burton, Algernon Swinburne, Lord Houghton, James Hunt, Racial and Cultural Superiority as a pseudo-scientific “fact”, Sex and pornography in mid and late Victorian England, Feminism, Post Colonial literary theory