Faculty

Full-Time Faculty

Name	Contact	Specialty	Office Hours Spring 2025
Timothy Brennan Professor	204 216 Pillsbury Drive 651-270-0520 [email protected]	Intellectual history; cultural and political theory; the Marxist and phenomenological traditions; the avant-gardes, comparative and world literature, theories of colonialism and imperialism, problems of translation, and popular music	By appointment in 30 minute slots on Thursdays 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. or by appointment. Arrange slot with professor beforehand.
Tony C. Brown Professor	206 216 Pillsbury Drive 612-626-6123 [email protected]	Philosophy, literary, aesthetic and political theory, Enlightenment philosophy and anthropology, statelessness, the new world, the South Pacific, colonial and postcolonial literature and theory	Thursdays 4:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. or by appointment.
Cesare Casarino Professor Interim Department Chair	226 216 Pillsbury Drive [email protected]	Philosophy, cinema, literature, queer theory
Michael Gallope Professor	235A 216 Pillsbury Drive [email protected]	Music and sound, continental philosophy and critical theory, visual culture, Black/African diaspora, theories of modernism	On administrative leave for spring 2025.
Keya Ganguly Professor Director of Graduate Studies	222 216 Pillsbury Drive 612-625-5871 [email protected]	The Frankfurt School, Intellectual History of Vision, Sociology of Culture, Postcolonial criticism, Global cinema, Marxism, Peripheral Literature	Alternate Thursdays 1:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. or by appointment via Zoom.
Maggie D. Hennefeld Professor Director of Undergraduate Studies	146B 216 Pillsbury Drive [email protected]	Comedy and humor, feminist theory and gender politics, silent cinema, film history and film theory, critical theory and cultural politics, film and popular culture
Charles Kronengold Associate Professor	220 216 Pillsbury Drive 612-624-9596 [email protected]	20th- and 21st-century music; film and audiovisual media; aesthetics; poetry and poetics; comparative modernisms; theories of genre	Mondays 2:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. or by appointment.
Alice Lovejoy Professor	235C 216 Pillsbury Drive 612-626-1552 [email protected]	Film history, historiography, nonfiction, experimental film, East Central European film, literature, cultural history	On sabbatical Fall 2024 and Spring 2025.
Laurie J. Ouellette Professor	208 216 Pillsbury Drive 612-624-3527 [email protected]	Media Studies, Television, Documentary, Social Media, Feminist Cultural Studies, Consumer Culture, Foucault, Precarity, Biopolitics, Governmentality
Shaden M. Tageldin Professor	218 216 Pillsbury Drive 612-625-8445 [email protected]	Empire and postcolonial studies, critical translation studies, 19th- and 20th-century comparative literature and literary historiography in English, Arabic, and French.	Tuesdays and Thursdays 4:15 p.m. - 5:15 p.m. or by appointment via Zoom only.
Christian Uwe Associate Professor	146A 216 Pillsbury Drive 612-625-4445 [email protected]	Sub-Saharan & Caribbean Literature, African Diaspora, 20-21st century French Literature, Semiotics, Postcolonial criticism, Sexual minorities in African Arts and Politics	On sabbatical Fall 2024 and Spring 2025.

Associate Faculty

Name	Contact	Specialty	Office Hours Spring 2025
Heidar Azodanloo Lecturer	224 216 Pillsbury Drive [email protected]	N/A	By appointment only via Zoom.
Thomas David Lecturer	210 216 Pillsbury Drive 612-625-5030 [email protected]	N/A	Mondays and Wednesdays 2:45 p.m. - 3:45 p.m.
Courtney Gildersleeve Lecturer	210 216 Pillsbury Drive 612-625-5030 [email protected]	N/A	Thursdays 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. or by appointment.
Matthew Hadley Senior Lecturer	150C 216 Pillsbury Drive [email protected]	Science studies, biocapital, Marxism, practices of speculation, narrative fiction	Wednesdays 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. or by appointment via Zoom.
Matthew Henseler Lecturer	231 216 Pillsbury Drive [email protected]	N/A
John Hicks Lecturer	146J 216 Pillsbury Drive 612-624-2693 [email protected]	N/A	Wednesdays and Fridays 11:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. or by appointment.
Matthew Hubbell Contract Assistant Professor	110F Pillsbury Hall 612-626-7119 [email protected]
Eva Hudecova Lecturer	224 216 Pillsbury Drive [email protected]	Central and Eastern Europe, testimonial writing, psychoanalysis, memory studies, media and cultural studies, translation (theory and practice), Germany and the GDR, German re-unification, 20th- and 21st-century German and Austrian literature and poetry
Michelle Lekas Senior Lecturer	146H 216 Pillsbury Drive 612-624-2690 [email protected]	Lacanian Psychoanalysis, film music: 1912 to present, world cinema history and theory: 1895 to present, American and British literature: 1810 to 1990, queer theory	Tuesdays 4:00 p.m. - 6:30 pm. and by appointment.
James Snapko Lecturer	217 216 Pillsbury Drive 612-626-5853 [email protected]	N/A	By appointment only.
Brad Stiffler Lecturer	231 216 Pillsbury Drive [email protected]	N/A	Thursdays 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. or by appointment. Sign up via Google Calendar.
Cory Stockwell Lecturer	217 216 Pillsbury Drive 612-626-5853 [email protected]	N/A	Tuesdays and Thursdays 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. or by appointment.
Graeme Stout Senior Lecturer & Film Studies Coordinator	213 216 Pillsbury Drive 612-625-2901 [email protected]	Film, television, video games and digital media studies, political and social theory, visual arts and intellectual history	Tuesdays 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. or by appointment.

Visiting Faculty

Name	Contact	Specialty	Office Hours Spring 2025
Martin Tschiggerl Visiting Professor	1049 Heller Hall [email protected]	N/A	Wednesdays 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. or by appointment.

Affiliate Researchers

Name	Contact	Specialty
Carol Vernallis Affiliate Research Professor	[email protected]	N/A
Tianyue Zhou Visiting Scholar	[email protected]	N/A

Emeriti Faculty

Name	Contact
John Archer	[email protected]
Robin Brown	[email protected]
John Mowitt	[email protected]
Richard Leppert	[email protected]

216 Pillsbury Drive is formerly Nicholson Hall.