Faculty

Full-Time Faculty

Name	Contact	Specialty	Office Hours Fall 2026
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	Tuesdays 11:00am - 1:00pm or by appointment, please contact before coming.
Tony C. Brown Professor	206 216 Pillsbury Drive 612-626-3532 [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	Mondays and Wednesdays 5:30pm - 6:30pm or by appointment.
Cesare Casarino Professor	226 216 Pillsbury Drive [email protected]	Philosophy, cinema, literature, queer theory	By appointment only in person Wednesdays 1:00pm - 2:00pm; by appointment on Zoom Thursdays 4:00pm - 5:00pm.
Kati Fitzgerald Assistant Professor	252 216 Pillsbury Drive [email protected]		Wednesdays 9:00am - 11:00am or by appointment.
Michael Gallope Professor Department Chair	235A 216 Pillsbury Drive [email protected]	Music and sound, continental philosophy and critical theory, visual culture, Black/African diaspora, theories of modernism	Thursdays 1:30pm - 3:30pm or by appointment.
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
Maggie D. Hennefeld Professor	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
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
Evelyn Shih Korea Foundation Assistant Professor	208 216 Pillsbury Drive [email protected]		Thursdays 1:00pm - 3:00pm or by appointment.
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.
Christian Uwe Associate Professor Director of Undergraduate Studies	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

Associate Faculty

Name	Contact	Specialty	Office Hours Fall 2026
Heidar Azodanloo Lecturer	224 216 Pillsbury Drive [email protected]	N/A
Thomas David Lecturer	210 216 Pillsbury Drive 612-625-5030 [email protected]	N/A
Courtney Gildersleeve Lecturer	210 216 Pillsbury Drive 612-625-5030 [email protected]	N/A
Matthew Hadley Senior Lecturer	150C 216 Pillsbury Drive [email protected]	Science studies, biocapital, Marxism, practices of speculation, narrative fiction	Wednesdays 1:00pm - 3:00pm or by appointment.
Matthew Henseler Lecturer	231 216 Pillsbury Drive [email protected]	N/A	Tuesdays and Thursdays 11:00am - 12:00pm or by appointment.
John Hicks Lecturer	146J 216 Pillsbury Drive 612-624-2693 [email protected]	Poetry and poetics, aesthetic theory, comparative literature, performance scores, literature and visual arts, interdisciplinary avant-garde movements, prosody, structuralism, queer aesthetics, Walt Whitman, genre theory, digital humanities
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	Tuesdays and Thursdays 1:00pm - 2:00pm or by appointment.
Brian Reinken Lecturer	217 216 Pillsbury Drive [email protected]	N/A	Tuesdays 1:00pm - 2:00pm or by appointment.
James Snapko Lecturer	612-626-5853 [email protected]	N/A	By appointment only.
Brad Stiffler Lecturer	231 216 Pillsbury Drive [email protected]	N/A	Thursdays 3:30pm - 4:30pm or by appointment, GCal Signup.
Cory Stockwell Lecturer	217 216 Pillsbury Drive 612-626-5853 [email protected]	N/A
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	Mondays 11:00am - 1:00pm or by appointment.
Olga Tchepikova-Treon	146H 216 Pillsbury Drive [email protected]	N/A	Wednesdays 1:00pm - 2:30pm or by appointment.
Bret Vukoder Lecturer	146H 216 Pillsbury Drive [email protected]	N/A

Affiliate Researchers

Name	Contact	Specialty
Carol Vernallis Affiliate Research Professor	[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.