Faculty

Full-Time Faculty

Name	Contact	Specialty	Office Hours Spring 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	Email to set up appointment during office hours, Thursdays 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. or by appointment, in person or on Zoom.
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	Tuesdays 5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. and Thursdays 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. or by appointment.
Cesare Casarino Professor	226 216 Pillsbury Drive [email protected]	Philosophy, cinema, literature, queer theory	Mondays 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. on Zoom; Thursdays 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. in person; 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	Mondays 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. 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	Wednesdays, 1:00 - 2:00 p.m.; Thursdays, 3:30 - 4:30 p.m. via Zoom.
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	Tuesdays 1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. or by appointment.
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	Wednesdays 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. in person or by appointment, in person or via Zoom.
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	Thursdays 12:20 p.m. - 2:20 p.m., reserve a time via Google Calendar; or by appointment.
Evelyn Shih Korea Foundation Assistant Professor	208 216 Pillsbury Drive [email protected]
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 Spring 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	Mondays and Wednesdays 11:45 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.
Courtney Gildersleeve Lecturer	210 216 Pillsbury Drive 612-625-5030 [email protected]	N/A	Thursdays, 11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. or by appointment.
Matthew Hadley Senior Lecturer	150C 216 Pillsbury Drive [email protected]	Science studies, biocapital, Marxism, practices of speculation, narrative fiction	Mondays and Wednesdays 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. or by appointment.
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	Tuesdays 2:30-3:30, and Thursdays by appointment.
Matthew Hubbell Contract Assistant Professor	110F Pillsbury Hall 612-626-7119 [email protected]		Wednesdays 12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. or by appointment.
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	Mondays 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. or by appointment.
Brian Reinken Lecturer	217 216 Pillsbury Drive [email protected]	Nineteenth-century literature; Victorian studies; empire and colonialism; literary history; ecocriticism	Wednesdays 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. in person or by appointment via Zoom.
James Snapko Lecturer	612-626-5853 [email protected]	N/A	By appointment only.
Brad Stiffler Lecturer	231 216 Pillsbury Drive [email protected]	N/A	Request appointment during office hours, Tuesdays 12:45 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.
Cory Stockwell Lecturer	217 216 Pillsbury Drive 612-626-5853 [email protected]	N/A	By appointment only.
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 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. or by appointment.
Bret Vukoder Lecturer	146G 216 Pillsbury Drive [email protected]	N/A	Thursdays 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. via Zoom, or by appointment.

Visiting Faculty

Name	Contact	Specialty
Yali Han Visiting Professor	[email protected]	Marxism

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.