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Faculty

Name	Contact	Specialty
Charles Baxter Edelstein-Keller Professor in Creative Writing	255 Lind Hall 612-625-3744 baxte087@umn.edu	Creative writing: fiction, modernism, contemporary fiction, American literature
Peter Campion Associate Professor	14 Lind Hall 612-625-3503 pcampion@umn.edu	Creative writing: poetry; poetry and the visual arts; prosody
V.V. Ganeshananthan Assistant Professor	210M Lind Hall 612-625-3546 vganesha@umn.edu	Creative writing, fiction, journalism
Ray Gonzalez Professor	330A Lind Hall 612-625-0332 gonza049@umn.edu	Creative writing: poetry, creative nonfiction, fiction; US Latino literature
Douglas Kearney Assistant Professor	210C Lind Hall dkearney@umn.edu	Creative Writing: poetry
Kathryn Nuernberger Assistant Professor	knuernbe@umn.edu	Creative writing: poetry and literary nonfiction
Dan Philippon Associate Professor	21 Lind Hall 612-624-4209 danp@umn.edu	Environmental literature, history, and ethics; ideas of nature, culture, and place
Julie Schumacher Professor	336 Lind Hall 612-625-3459 schum003@umn.edu	Creative writing: fiction, contemporary fiction, children's literature
Kim Todd Director Associate Professor	222 Lind Hall 612-625-0729 kftodd@umn.edu	Creative writing (literary nonfiction), science and environmental writing

Visiting Faculty

In accordance with University of Minnesota Policies, we welcome visiting scholars. Please note that all visiting positions are subject to the approval of the chair.

Name	Contact	Specialties
Kao Kalia Yang Edelstein-Keller Writer in Residence	yang1225@umn.edu	Creative Writing: literary nonfiction, memoir, children's literature