1. 当代西方文论

1）“理论之后”文学理论批评的前沿问题及其走向；全球范围内文本的流通及其跨文化意义、文化再生产与文化流动。

2）解构主义如何以及为什么出现、繁荣和消退：解构对美学意识形态构成的危险；解构对（精英）审美人文主义教育的威胁；解构主义者与对立的解释学派之间的博弈；解构主义文学批评原理和方法。

3）J.希利斯·米勒（J. Hillis Miller）晚近的论著：伦理批评；共同体理论等。

2. 加勒比流散文学：加拿大黑人作家Austin Clarke及其作品研究

Deconstruction played a major role in the animation and transformation of literary studies by literary theory, which was concerned with questions about the nature of language, the production of meaning, and the relationship between literature and the numerous discourses that structure human experience and its histories. (Britannica)

It (The Yale School) generated extraordinary influence in some circles, but well beyond its influence, an atmosphere of hostility which had in many ways to do.  (Paul H. Fry)

J. Hillis Miller, the single most significant North American literary critic of the twentieth century.  (Julian Wolfreys)

There is no other black Canadian author who has been so heartily embraced as Austin Clarke.  (Donna Bailey Nurse)