Faculty

Full-Time Faculty

Name	Contact	Specialty	Office Hours Spring 2023
Timothy Brennan Professor	204 Nicholson Hall 651-270-0520 brenn032@umn.edu	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	Thursdays 10:00 - 12:00 p.m. via Zoom or by appointment.
Tony C. Brown Associate Professor	206 Nicholson Hall 612-626-6123 tcbrown@umn.edu	Philosophy, literary, aesthetic and political theory, Enlightenment philosophy and anthropology, statelessness, the new world, the South Pacific, colonial and postcolonial literature and theory	Wednesdays 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. or by appointment.
Cesare Casarino Professor Director of Undergraduate Studies	226 Nicholson Hall 612-625-4571 casarino@umn.edu	Philosophy, cinema, literature, queer theory	By appointment only on Mondays, 5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. via Zoom, and Thursdays, 2:30 - 3:30 in person.
Michael Gallope Associate Professor Department Chair	235A Nicholson Hall 612-624-1538 mgallope@umn.edu	Music and sound, continental philosophy and critical theory, visual culture, Black/African diaspora, theories of modernism
Keya Ganguly Professor Interim Director of Graduate Studies	222 Nicholson Hall 612-625-5871 gangu003@umn.edu	The Frankfurt School, Intellectual History of Vision, Sociology of Culture, Postcolonial criticism, Global cinema, Marxism, Peripheral Literature	Tuesdays 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. via Zoom, Thursdays, 2:30 - 3:30 p.m. in Nicholson 222.
Margaret D. Hennefeld Associate Professor	146B Nicholson Hall 612-625-8450 mhennefe@umn.edu	Comedy and humor, feminist theory and gender politics, silent cinema, film history and film theory, critical theory and cultural politics, film and popular culture	Tuesdays 3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. or by appointment.
Alice Lovejoy Associate Professor	235C Nicholson Hall 612-626-1552 alovejoy@umn.edu	Film history, historiography, nonfiction, experimental film, East Central European film, literature, cultural history	On leave spring and fall 2023.
Laurie J. Ouellette Professor	208 Nicholson 612-624-3527 ouell031@umn.edu	Media Studies, Television, Documentary, Social Media, Feminist Cultural Studies, Consumer Culture, Foucault, Precarity, Biopolitics, Governmentality	Tuesdays 11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. and by appointment.
Shaden M. Tageldin Associate Professor	218 Nicholson Hall 612-625-8445 tageldin@umn.edu	Empire and postcolonial studies, critical translation studies, 19th- and 20th-century comparative literature and literary historiography in English, Arabic, and French.	Fridays 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. via Zoom only.
Christian Uwe Assistant Professor	146A Nicholson Hall 612-625-4445 cuwe@umn.edu	Sub-Saharan & Caribbean Literature, African Diaspora, 20-21st century French Literature, Semiotics, Postcolonial criticism, Sexual minorities in African Arts and Politics	Mondays 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. and Wednesdays 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Visiting Faculty

Name	Contact	Specialty	Office Hours Spring 2023
Saskia Jaszoltowski Associate Professor	220 Nicholson Hall 612-624-9596 sjaszolt@umn.edu	Music history and memory culture; film music and screen-media musicology; music and posthuman theory	Mondays and Wednesdays 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.

Senior Lecturers

Name	Contact	Specialty	Office Hours Spring 2023
Matthew Hadley	150C Nicholson Hall 612-624-2634 hadl0046@umn.edu	Science studies, biocapital, Marxism, practices of speculation, narrative fiction	Wednesdays 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. via Zoom.
Michelle Lekas	146H Nicholson Hall 612-624-2690 mlekas@umn.edu	Lacanian Psychoanalysis, film music: 1912 to present, world cinema history and theory: 1895 to present, American and British literature: 1810 to 1990, queer theory	By appointment only via Zoom.
Graeme Stout	213 Nicholson Hall 612-625-2901 stou0046@umn.edu	Film, television, video games and digital media studies, political and social theory, visual arts and intellectual history	Tuesdays and Thursdays 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. or by appointment.

Lecturers

Name	Contact	Specialty	Office Hours Spring 2023
Heidar Azodanloo	224 Nicholson Hall 612-625-8443 azod0001@umn.edu	N/A	By appointment only, via Zoom.
Thomas David	210 Nicholson Hall 612-624-1538 davi0914@umn.edu	N/A	Monday and Wednesdays 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 p.m.
Courtney Gildersleeve	210 Nicholson Hall 612-626-5853 giode001@umn.edu	Caribbean literature and anti-colonial thought; representations of slavery and anti-slavery struggle; historical reckoning and redress; comparative literature; post-colonial studies	Mondays 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. and Wednesdays 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. or by appointment in 210 Nicholson Hall.
Matthew Henseler	231 Nicholson Hall 612-624-2634 hens0073@umn.edu	N/A	Mondays and Wendesdays 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. or by appointment.
John Hicks	146J Nicholson Hall 612-624-2693 hicks494@umn.edu	N/A
Eva Hudecova	224 Nicholson Hall 612-625-8443 hude0011@umn.edu	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	Wednesdays 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. or by appointment.
James Snapko	217 Nicholson Hall 612-626-5853 snapk002@umn.edu	N/A	By appointment only.
Brad Stiffler	231 Nicholson Hall 612-624-6858 stiff011@umn.edu	N/A
Cory Stockwell	217 Nicholson Hall 612-626-5853 stoc0142@umn.edu	N/A	Mondays and Wednesdays 3:45 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.

Visiting Postdoctoral Associate

Name	Contact	Specialty	Office Hours Spring 2023
Ricardo Velasco	velas135@umn.edu		Mondays 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. or by appointment via Zoom, sign up available on Canvas.