Affiliate Faculty
Name | Contact | Specialty |
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Hakim Abderrezak French & Italian |
303D Folwell Hall |
20th- and 21st-century French and Francophone studies, visual studies |
Shir Alon |
230C Folwell Hall |
Literary temporalities; theories of world literature; gender theory; postcolonial theory and decolonization; historiography of the modern Middle East |
Osiris Aníbal Gómez
Spanish & Portuguese Studies |
214N Folwell Hall ogomezve@umn.edu |
Contemporary Mexican literature and culture, Indigenous literature, translation studies, linguistic rights. |
Sophia Beal Spanish & Portuguese Studies |
206D Folwell Hall 612-625-2331 sfbeal@umn.edu |
Brazilian literature and cultural studies, Lusophone-African Literature and cultural studies, urban studies, postcolonial studies |
Jane M. Blocker Art History |
346 Heller Hall 612-625-1549 block023@umn.edu |
Contemporary art and theory |
Emily Capper Art History |
362 Heller Hall ercapper@umn.edu |
Modern and contemporary art, social and intellectual history, film and media |
Sinem Casale Art History |
423 Heller Hall 612-301-1563 sinem@umn.edu |
Islamic art |
Juliette Cherbuliez French & Italian |
314F/309B Folwell Hall 612-624-3473 cherbuli@umn.edu |
17th-century literature and culture, theater studies |
Palita Chunsaengchan Asian & Middle Eastern Studies |
327E Folwell Hall palitac@umn.edu |
Comparative Media Aesthetics; Film theory / historiography; Early Thai Cinema; "Media Modernity"; Cinema and Politics of Class, Production and Circulation; Contemporary Southeast Asian Cinema |
Siobhan S. Craig English |
320A Pillsbury Hall craig026@umn.edu |
Italian and German cinema; literary, cultural, film, feminist, and queer theory |
Jigna Desai Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies |
410 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 |
309A FolH 612-624-0537 lfabbri@umn.edu |
Contemporary Italian studies, film theory, postcolonial critique |
Joseph Farag Asian & Middle Eastern Studies |
220M Folwell Hall jrfarag@umn.edu |
Palestinian literature and film; modern Arabic literature; Arab cultural studies; modern Arab history, politics, and society; Arab-American studies |
Susanna F. Ferlito French & Italian |
304G Folwell Hall 612-624-4151 ferli001@umn.edu |
Modern Italian literature |
Ana Paula Ferreira Spanish & Portuguese Studies |
206C Folwell Hall 612-626-6909 apferrei@umn.edu |
Decolonial Studies of Lusophone Literatures and Cultures; “Race” and Coloniality in the Global Portuguese and Spanish South; Women, Feminisms and Late Empire/Post empire |
Megan Finch English |
310B Pillsbury Hall finch128@umn.edu |
20th- and 21st-century US and African-American Literature, black feminism, queer theory, dystopian fiction, afropessimism, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison |
Ramon Fonkoué French & Italian |
305A Folwell Hall 612-624-9393 fonko002@umn.edu |
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Njeri Githire African American & African Studies |
848 Social Sciences 612-625-1687 ngithire@umn.edu |
African artistic and cultural production, African diasporic studies |
Sumanth S. Gopinath Music |
114 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 |
243 Ford Hall 612-624-9003 green179@umn.edu |
Rhetorical studies, cultural studies/cultural policy, citizenship, philosophy of communication |
Atilla Hallsby Communication Studies |
263 Ford Hall 612-625-2985 hall1039@umn.edu |
Rhetorical studies; post-structuralist theories of discourse; history of secrecy; privacy & transparency; critical surveillance & security studies |
Jaime E. Hanneken Spanish & Portuguese Studies |
214M Folwell Hall 612-625-1837 hanne045@umn.edu |
Contemporary Latin American literature, culture Francophone literature, culture postcolonial studies, globalization, Latin American vanguardias, discursive appropriations of Paris in Caribbean, Latin American, and African contexts, uses and limitation of metropolitan literary, cultural theory in peripheral contexts |
George L. Henderson Geography, Environment & Society |
548 Social Sciences Building 612-625-4085 hende057@umn.edu |
Marxism, post-capitalist politics, value theory of labor, Marxist cultural critique |
Karen Ho Anthropology |
395 Herbert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs 612-626-1313 karenho@umn.edu |
Cultural studies of finance capital, finance, globalization, and capitalism, ethnography, feminist studies, political economy, United States, comparative race and ethnicity |
Alexander Jabbari Asian & Middle Eastern Studies |
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Mari Jarris German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch |
320E Folwell Hall mjarris@umn.edu |
19th- and 20th-Century German and Russian Literature, Feminist and Queer Theory, Marxist and Socialist Theories and Movements, Utopianism |
Michal Kobialka Theater & Dance |
520C Rarig Center 612-625-0048 kobia001@umn.edu |
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Katerina Korola German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch |
328F Folwell Hall 612-626-1620 kkorola@umn.edu |
German Modernism, History of Photography, Early and Silent Cinema, Modern Art, and the Environmental Humanities |
Dwight K Lewis, Jr. Assistant Professor |
817 Heller Hall 612-625-6563 lewi1715@umn.edu |
History of early modern philosophy, philosophy of race, and Africana philosophy, with a focus on the philosophy of Anton Willhelm Amo (c.1700-c.1750) |
Nancy Luxon Political Science |
1350 Social Sciences Building 612-625-7982 luxon@umn.edu |
Contemporary political & social theory, French political thought |
Christine L. Marran Asian & Middle Eastern Studies |
327C Folwell Hall marran@umn.edu |
Japanese popular culture from the 1870s to the present; Japanese literature; Early Meiji writing, especially newspapers and gesaku literature; Gender, sexuality, and identity in print and film culture; Ethics and the animal; Japanese and Asian film |
Jason McGrath Asian & Middle Eastern Studies |
225 Folwell Hall 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; art and the nation; Chinese and Western Marxism |
Stuart McLean Anthropology |
612-624-8944 mclea070@umn.edu 374 Hubert H. Humphrey Center |
Anthropology of modernity, social and cultural theory, historical anthropology, Ireland, European Union |
Ellen Messer-Davidow English |
110H Pillsbury Hall 612-625-2071 emd@umn.edu |
Cultural and social theory; 20th century American social movements, policy, and law |
Nathaniel Mills English |
310G Pillsbury Hall 612-625-8444 mills175@umn.edu |
20th-century US and African American literature; Ralph Ellison; literature and culture of the Great Depression; the Literary Left and Communism in the US; critical theory |
Leslie C. Morris German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch |
327A Folwell Hall 612-624-4047 morri074@umn.edu |
German Jewish studies; Holocaust & memory studies; 20th- & 21st-century German and Austrian literature; comparative literature & literary theory; experimental poetry; psychoanalysis; medical humanities |
Robert Nichols Political Science |
1431 Social Sciences Building 612-624-2389 rbnichol@umn.edu |
Modern political theory, indigeneity & settler colonialism, imperialism in political thought |
Yuichiro Onishi African American & African Studies |
874 Social Sciences 612-625-0513 ohni0001@umn.edu |
African American history, Asian American studies, African diaspora studies |
Sonali Pahwa Theater & Dance |
550A Rarig Center 612-301-3917 pahwa007@umn.edu |
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Elliott Powell American Studies |
203 Scott Hall 612-626-8515 ehpowell@umn.edu |
American popular music and culture, critical race theory and comparative ethnic studies, feminist and queer studies, African American and Asian American studies, music and politics, music and globalization, jazz, hip hop, sound studies |
Matt Rahaim Music |
170 Ferguson Hall 612-465-9248 mrahaim@umn.edu |
Indian music, Asian literatures, cultures and media, religious studies, cultural studies and comparative literature |
Matthias Rothe German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch |
328G Folwell Hall 612-625-9034 mrothe@umn.edu |
18th-century political philosophy; philosophical and literary presentability of economic practices; Brechtian and contemporary theater |
Jennifer Row Associate Professor |
304D Folwell Hall 612-624-0537 jjrow@umn.edu |
Early modern theater and dance studies, queer and feminist theory, disability studies, history of sexuality |
Nida Sajid Asian & Middle Eastern Studies |
231D Folwell Hall nsajid@umn.edu |
South Asian Literature (Hindi-Urdu); Muslim Cultures of South Asia; Intellectual History and Paracolonial Networks; Global Eighteenth Century; Human Rights and Transnationalism; Gender, Caste and Religion in South Asia; Material Culture and Dress Studies |
Jani Scandura English |
310D Pillsbury Hall 612-625-9017 jani@umn.edu |
Cultural studies and critical theory; 20th century North American literatures, film, mass culture |
JB Shank History |
922 Heller Hall 612-624-7323 jbshank@umn.edu |
Early Modern Europe, France, European Intellectual, and History of Science |
Anna Lise Seastrand Art History |
417 Heller Hall 612-625-6384 seast003@umn.edu |
South Asian art |
Sima Shakhsari Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies |
428 Ford Hall 612-301-1720 sshakhsa@umn.edu |
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Suvadip Sinha Asian & Middle Eastern Studies |
228D Folwell Hall ssinha@umn.edu |
South Asian cinema and literature; global modernities; nationalism; post-colonial theory and literature; philosophy of non-human; animality |
Ajay Skaria History |
924 Heller Hall skari002@umn.edu |
South Asia and Environmental History |
Katherine Solomonson Architecture |
151K Rapson Hall 612-624-5565 solom003@umn.edu |
Architecture and social relations |
Karen-Sue Taussig Anthropology |
612-625-3366 taussig@umn.edu 395 Hubert H. Humphrey Center |
Medical anthropology, social and cultural implications of genetic testing, new reproductive technologies, cloning and stem cell research, genetics, eugenics, anthropology of science, biotechnology |
Mary Douglas Vavrus
Communication Studies |
237 Ford Hall 612-624-5515 vavru001@umn.edu |
Media studies; feminist theory; political economy of media |
Christophe Wall-Romana French and Italian |
303E Folwell Hall 612-626-8016 wallr007@umn.edu |
French Modernism, poetry, theory, and film studies |
Jamele Watkins German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch |
327C Folwell Hall 612-625-4898 watkinsj@umn.edu |
20th- and 21st-century German literature and history; Black diasporic studies; performance studies; feminist studies; German film |
Margaret Werry Theater & Dance |
550D Rarig Center 612-625-6783 werry001@umn.edu |
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Emily Winderman Communication Studies |
257 Ford Hall 612-626-7713 ewinderm@umn.edu |
Rhetoric of health and medicine; reproductive health; public emotion |
Travis Workman Asian & Middle Eastern Studies |
220H Folwell Hall tworkman@umn.edu |
Korean literature, film, and intellectual history; state violence and historical memory; melodrama; nationalism; humanism and its critiques |