French and European philosophical literature (early modern: Montaigne, Descartes, the moralistes, classicism, and Enlightenment; modern/postmodern: surrealism, existentialism, the Frankfurt School, structuralism and poststructuralism, Lyotard, Foucault, Nancy and Derrida); travel narrative and tourism/migration studies; critical theory and aesthetics; francophone literature (Belgian, Canadian, Congolese and Vietnamese)