Faculty
Full-Time Faculty
Name | Contact | Specialty | Office Hours Spring 2025 |
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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. |
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 Assistant 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 Associate 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 |
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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] |
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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 |
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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 |
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Carol Vernallis Affiliate Research Professor |
[email protected] | N/A |
Tianyue Zhou Visiting Scholar |
[email protected] | N/A |
Emeriti Faculty
Name | Contact |
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John Archer | [email protected] |
Robin Brown | [email protected] |
John Mowitt | [email protected] |
Richard Leppert | [email protected] |
216 Pillsbury Drive is formerly Nicholson Hall.