Faculty

Full-Time Faculty

Name	Contact	Specialty	Office Hours
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	Tuesdays 1:00 - 3:00 p.m., via Zoom; additional hours available 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 2:00 - 4:00 p.m., via Zoom
Cesare Casarino Professor	226 Nicholson Hall 612-625-4571 casarino@umn.edu	Philosophy, cinema, literature, queer theory	On leave fall 2021
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	Mondays 1:00 - 3:00 p.m., Nicholson 235A
Keya Ganguly Professor	222 Nicholson Hall 612-625-5871 gangu003@umn.edu	Critical theory, film, postcolonialism, politics and practice of ethnography, sociology of culture	Tuesday and Thursdays 12:00 - 1:00 p.m., via Zoom
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	On leave fall 2021
Alice Lovejoy Associate Professor Director of Graduate Studies	235C Nicholson Hall 612-626-1552 alovejoy@umn.edu	Film history, historiography, nonfiction, experimental film, East Central European film, literature, cultural history	Wednesdays 2:00 - 4:00 p.m., schedule an appointment with Alice Lovejoy
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	On leave fall 2021 and spring 2022
Thomas Pepper Associate Professor	220 Nicholson Hall 612-624-9596 tapepper@umn.edu	Psychoanalytic theory, gender, textual theory, philosophy of language
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
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	Wednesdays 3:00 - 5:00 p.m., via Zoom

Senior Lecturers

Name	Contact	Specialty	Office Hours
Matthew Hadley	150C Nicholson Hall 612-624-2634 hadl0046@umn.edu	Science studies, biocapital, Marxism, practices of speculation, narrative fiction	Wednesdays 3:00 - 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	Tuesdays 12:00 - 2:00 p.m., 146H Nicholson or via Zoom; additional hours available by appointment
Graeme Stout Acting Director of Undergraduate Studies	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	Thursdays 1:00 - 3:00 p.m., via Zoom, additional hours available by appointment

Lecturers

Name	Contact	Specialty	Office Hours
Heidar Azodanloo	224 Nicholson Hall 612-625-8443 azod0001@umn.edu	N/A	Tuesday and Thursdays 3:50 - 4:30 p.m., 224 Nicholson Hall
Thomas David	210 Nicholson Hall 612-624-1538 davi0914@umn.edu	N/A	Monday and Wednesdays 10:00 - 11:00 a.m., 210 Nicholson Hall
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	Tuesdays 2:30 - 4:30 p.m., 210 Nicholson Hall or Zoom, additional hours available by appointment
Matthew Henseler	231 Nicholson Hall 612-624-2634 hens0073@umn.edu	N/A	Monday and Wednesdays 9:30 - 10:30 a.m., via Zoom
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
James Snapko	217 Nicholson Hall 612-626-5853 snapk002@umn.edu	N/A	Hours available prior to class time or by appointment, please contact Professor Snapko for availability
Brad Stiffler	231 Nicholson Hall 612-624-6858 stiff011@umn.edu	N/A	Wednesdays 2:00 - 3:30 p.m., Nicholson 231, additional hours available by appointment

Affiliate Faculty

Name	Contact	Specialty
Hakim Abderrezak French & Italian Comparative Literature	303C Folwell Hall 612-624-1074 abder002@umn.edu	Maghrebi & Beur literature; cinema and music; representations of clandestine migrations in Arabic, French and Spanish; the contemporary Western Mediterranean; francophone studies
Jane M. Blocker Art History Comparative Studies in Discourse and Society	405 Heller Hall 612-625-1549 block023@umn.edu	20th century theory and criticism, contemporary art, critical theory, performance art, transgenic art, theories of representation, theories of witness, the body in art, historiography, feminism, alternative media
Maria M. Brewer French & Italian Comparative Studies in Discourse and Society Comparative Literature	303D Folwell Hall 312-624-1361 mbrewer@umn.edu	20th and 21st century French literature and critical thought, modern and contemporary theater in France, French theater of the diaspora
Juliette Cherbuliez French & Italian Comparative Literature	309B Folwell Hall 612-624-3473 cherbuli@umn.edu	Huguenot literature; 17th-century libertinage; ethics and experience of violence; 17th-century French literature and culture, especially drama and the novel
Siobhan S. Craig English Comparative Studies in Discourse and Society Comparative Literature	50H Lind Hall 612-625-6087 craig026@umn.edu	Fascist-era cinema in Italy and Germany, Italian neorealism, new German cinema, monsters and hybrids, the cinematic body, literary and cultural theory after 1968: psychoanalysis, queer and feminist theories, post-modern theories of language and meaning, film theory
Lois B. Cucullu English Comparative Studies in Discourse and Society Comparative Literature	18 Lind Hall lcucullu@umn.edu	Modern British and American literature, modernism and modernity, narrative and novel studies, Victorian literature and culture, gender studies and theory, history and production of knowledge, popular culture and media
Jigna Desai Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies Comparative Studies in Discourse and Society	425 Ford Hall 612-624-0363 desai003@umn.edu	Asian American literature and media, feminist theory, postcolonial studies, queer/sexuality studies, South Asian diasporas, critical disability studies, autism, neuronormativity
Lorenzo Fabbri French and Italian Comparative Studies in Discourse and Society Comparative Literature	309A FolH 612-624-0537 lfabbri@umn.edu	Film History and Theory, Continental Philosophy, Postcolonial Studies, Visual Culture under Fascism, Biopolitics
Susanna F. Ferlito French & Italian Comparative Literature	304G Folwell Hall 612-624-4151 ferli001@umn.edu	History of emotions, feminist studies, immigration, literary theory, Risorgimento studies
Ana Paula Ferreira Spanish & Portuguese Studies Comparative Studies in Discourse and Society Comparative Literature	206C Folwell Hall 612-626-6909 apferrei@umn.edu	Portuguese, Brazilian and Lusophone African literatures; 'race' and postcolonial studies; women writers, feminisms, and empire; psychoanalysis; deconstruction; ethics
Mary Franklin-Brown French & Italian Comparative Studies in Discourse and Society Comparative Literature	309A Folwell Hall 612-624-0314 brow2085@umn.edu	Old French romance and epic; troubadour lyric; Latin poetry and commentaries; Ramon Llull; dialogue between contemporary and medieval philosophy; encyclopedism; medieval humanisms; codicology; manuscript culture and reception theories
Njeri Githire African American & African Studies Comparative Literature	848 Social Science Tower 612-625-1687 ngithire@umn.edu	African literary and cultural production; literatures of the African diaspora; literature of immigration and racial formation in the African diasporic spheres; Women's writings and feminist theory; postcolonial theory and criticism; francophone studies; food, (non)-eating, and related topics in literature
Sumanth S. Gopinath Music Comparative Studies in Discourse and Society	100 Ferguson Hall 612-624-1829 sumanth@umn.edu	Music after WWII, avant-garde and experimental musics, music and politics, musical hermeneutics, popular music, sound studies, music and globalization
Ronald W. Greene Communication Studies Comparative Studies in Discourse and Society	225 Ford Hall 612-624-2808 green179@umn.edu	Political communication, debates, civic education, legal and popular perspectives on free speech, film exhibition, educational uses of film/movies, history of debates on population control
Jaime E. Hanneken Spanish and Portuguese Studies Comparative Literature	214N Folwell Hall 612-626-2540 hanne045@umn.edu	19th- and 20th-century Latin American literature, postcolonial approaches to literature and culture, francophone literature, critical theory
George L. Henderson Geography, Environment, and Society Comparative Studies in Discourse and Society	414 SocSci 612-625-4085 hende057@umn.edu	Marxism, Value Theory of Labor, Post-Capitalist Politics, Marxist Cultural Critique
Karen Ho Anthropology Comparative Studies in Discourse and Society	395 Herbert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs karenho@umn.edu	Cultural studies of finance capital, finance, globalization and capitalism, ethnography, feminist studies, political economy, United States, comparative race and ethnicity
Nancy Luxon Political Science Comparative Studies in Discourse and Society	1350 Social Sciences Building 612-625-7982 luxon@umn.edu	Contemporary political and social theory, French political thought, literary theories of narrative and reading practices, psychoanalysis, ancient and modern practices of the self
Christine L. Marran Asian & Middle Eastern Studies Comparative Studies in Discourse and Society	230C Folwell Hall 612-625-0174 marran@umn.edu	Ecocriticism, understanding the biotic world in representation, gender and sexuality in print and film culture, Japanese and Asian film, modern Japanese literature
Jason McGrath Asian & Middle Eastern Studies Comparative Studies in Discourse and Society Comparative Literature	225 Folwell Hall 612-624-2875 jmcgrath@umn.edu	Chinese and international cinemas, modern and contemporary Chinese literature and culture, realism in fiction, film and theory, issues of convention and intertextuality in film theory, Chinese and Western marxisms
Ellen Messer-Davidow English Comparative Studies in Discourse and Society	22 Lind Hall 612-625-2071 emd@umn.edu	Literary, cultural, and social theory; the “new knowledge studies"; modern/contemporary American social movements (Civil Rights, new left, feminist, and conservative); certain areas of contemporary American public policy and law
Leslie C. Morris German, Scandinavian and Dutch Comparative Studies in Discourse and Society Comparative Literature	327A Folwell Hall 612-624-4047 morri074@umn.edu	20th- and 21st-century German and Austrian literature and poetry, Jewish studies
Yuchiro Onishi African American & African Studies Comparative Studies in Discourse and Society	808 Social Sciences Building 612-624-9847 ohni0001@umn.edu	Black Radicalism and internationalism, African American history, transnational American studies, critical race studies, Asian American studies
Matthew Rahaim Music Comparative Studies in Discourse and Society	170 Ferguson Hall 612-624-2393 mrahaim@umn.edu	Indian music, Asian literatures, cultures and media, religious studies, cultural studies and comparative literature
Matthias Rothe German, Scandinavian and Dutch Comparative Literature	328G Folwell Hall 612-625-9034 mrothe@umn.edu	18th-century literature and philosophy, theories of knowledge production, critical theory with a focus on liberalism and emotions
Simona Sawhney Asian & Middle Eastern Studies Comparative Literature	sawhney@umn.edu	South Asian literature, Sanskrit literature, post-colonial literature and theory, literary theory
Jani Scandura English Comparative Studies in Discourse and Society Comparative Literature	210D Lind Hall 612-625-9017 jani@umn.edu	Cultural studies and critical theory, especially theories of modernity, materiality; subjectivity, 20th century North American literatures; film, visual and mass culture; European, American and (recently) Japanese modernisms; theories of space and place; stuff: theories of matter, objects, things, refuse, trash; sound and acoustic culture; memory; history of science, medicine and its intersections with philosophy; writing in cultures impacted by US imperialisms (especially Cuba)
JB Shank History Comparative Studies in Discourse and Society	922 Heller Hall 612-624-7323 jbshank@umn.edu	Enlightenment science and Newtonianism, 17th and 18th century European intellectual history, Renaissance science and culture, old regime France and the French Revolution, the history of Silicon Valley
Ajay Skaria History Comparative Studies in Discourse and Society	924 Heller Hall skari002@umn.edu	Postcolonial studies/theory, intellectual history, 19th and 20th century South Asia, Forest and Adivasi communities, nationalism, democracies and minorities
Katherine Solomonson Architecture Comparative Studies in Discourse and Society	151K Rapson Hall 612-624-5565 solom003@umn.edu	Architecture and social relations
Nicholas Spadaccini Spanish and Portuguese Studies Comparative Literature	204C Folwell Hall 612-625-0732 spada001@umn.edu	Comparative literature and cultural studies, colonial Spanish-American literature and culture, Cervantes' novel, theater, poetry, Early modern Spanish literature and culture, contemporary Spanish literature and cultures
Karen-Sue Taussig Anthropology Comparative Studies in Discourse and Society	395 Herbert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs taussig@umn.edu	Medical anthropology, social and cultural implications of genetic testing, new reproductive technologies, cloning and stem cell research, genetics, eugenics, anthropology of science, biotechnology
Joan C. Tronto Political Science Comparative Studies in Discourse and Society	1414 Social Sciences Building 612-624-4144 jctronto@umn.edu
Mary D. Vavrus Communication Studies Comparative Studies in Discourse and Society	237 Ford Hall 612-624-5515 vavru001@umn.edu	Feminist theory, media studies, media postfeminism, mediated masculinity, political economy of media, media coverage of political women, gender and media, media activism
Christophe M. Wall-Romana French & Italian Comparative Literature	303E Folwell Hall 612-626-8016 wallr007@umn.edu	19th and 20th-century French literature and thought, modern French poetry, French cinema, silent cinema, modern French philosophy and theory, translation studies, media history
Travis Workman Asian & Middle Eastern Studies Comparative Studies in Discourse and Society Comparative Literature	220N Folwell Hall 612-624-3827 tworkman@umn.edu	Korean and Japanese literature, film, and intellectual history; humanism and empire; critical theory; film melodrama; Cold War aesthetics; North Korea
Jacquelyn N. Zita Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies Comparative Studies in Discourse and Society	436 Ford Hall 612-624-9326 zitax001@umn.edu	Women's biology, environmental justice, feminist envrionmental studies, sexuality, corporeal philosophy, LGBT studies, feminist theory and philosophy

Faculty Emeriti

Name	Contact	Specialty
John Archer	archer@umn.edu	Suburbia and its history, theory of space and place, landscape art and history, English and American architectural history
Robert (Robin) Brown	brown004@umn.edu	Cultural studies of science and technology, rhetoric, literacy and critical pedagogy
Richard Leppert	leppe001@umn.edu	Music, visual culture, critical theory, aesthetics, history of modernity
Harvey Sarles	sarle001@umn.edu	Science and religion, human nature, teaching as dialogue, pragmatism: John Dewey and G.H. Mead, cultural critic