Nineteenth-century British literature, Victorian anthropology and sexology, Darwin and social Darwinism, history of the Church Missionary Society, feminism in imperialism, colonial discourse studies, anglophone postcolonial literature and theory, South African literature, critical race studies, theories of nationalism, Marx and western Marxism, Raymond Williams and British cultural studies, contemporary feminist theory in French and English, psychoanalysis (particularly Freud and Klein), lesbian and gay studies, queer theory, history of sexuality, international human rights law pertaining to sexual orientation, development and globalization theory.