Faculty

Full-Time Faculty

Name Contact Specialty Office Hours Fall 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  
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 Thursdays 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. or by appointment.
Cesare Casarino
Professor
 
226 216 Pillsbury Drive
[email protected]
Philosophy, cinema, literature, queer theory By appointment on Tuesdays 3:45 p.m. - 4:45 p.m. and Wednesdays 4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. on Zoom.
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  
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 Wdnesdays 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. in person 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 Tuesdays by appointment on Zoom from 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. or by appointment.
Evelyn Shih
Korea Foundation Assistant Professor
208 216 Pillsbury Drive
[email protected]
  Wednesdays 1:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. or by appointment via Zoom only unless in-person meeting requested.
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.  Thursdays 4:15 p.m. - 6:15 p.m. or by appointment via Zoom only.
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 Tuesdays and Thursdays 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Associate Faculty

Name Contact Specialty Office Hours Fall 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 1:15 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.
Courtney Gildersleeve
Lecturer
210 216 Pillsbury Drive
612-625-5030
[email protected]
N/A Mondays and Wednesdays 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. or by appointment in the Northrop Auditorium Café.
Matthew Hadley
Senior Lecturer
150C 216 Pillsbury Drive
[email protected]
Science studies, biocapital, Marxism, practices of speculation, narrative fiction Thursdays 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. or by appointment. 
Matthew Henseler
Lecturer
231 216 Pillsbury Drive
[email protected]
N/A Tuesdays 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. or by appointment.
John Hicks
Lecturer
146J 216 Pillsbury Drive
612-624-2693
[email protected]
N/A Wednesdays and Fridays 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 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 Wednesdays 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. and by appointment.
James Snapko
Lecturer
217 216 Pillsbury Drive
612-626-5853
[email protected]
N/A By appointment only via Zoom.
Brad Stiffler
Lecturer
231 216 Pillsbury Drive
[email protected]
N/A Tuesdays 2:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. or by appointment.
Cory Stockwell
Lecturer
217 216 Pillsbury Drive
612-626-5853
[email protected]
N/A By appointment on Mondays 12:30 p.m.  - 2:30 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
Mondays 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. 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.