Faculty

Full-Time Faculty

Name Contact Specialty Office Hours Fall 2024
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 Tuesdays and Thursdays 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. or by appointment.
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 Mondays and Wednesdays 5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
226 216 Pillsbury Drive
[email protected]
Philosophy, cinema, literature, queer theory Thursdays 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. 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 Tuesdays 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m., Thursdays 1:30 p.m. - 2:30 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 By appointment only.
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 Thursdays 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. or by appointment.
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 1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. in person or by appointment in person or via Zoom.
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 Tuesdays 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. in 208 216 Pillsbury Drive, Thursdays 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. in 254 Ford Hall, or by appointment via Zoom.
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 2:30 p.m. - 4:30 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 Fall 2024
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 N/A
Courtney Gildersleeve
Lecturer
210 216 Pillsbury Drive
612-625-5030
[email protected]
N/A Tuesdays 12:00 p.m. - 2:00 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. via Zoom or by appointment via Zoom.
Matthew Henseler
Lecturer
231 216 Pillsbury Drive
[email protected]
N/A Wednesdays 11:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. or appointment.
John Hicks
Lecturer
146J 216 Pillsbury Drive
612-624-2693
[email protected]
N/A Wednesdays 1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. or Mondays by appointment.
Matthew Hubbell
Contract Assistant Professor
110F Pillsbury Hall
612-626-7119
[email protected]
  Wednesdays 12:00 p.m. to 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 Tuesdays 1:45 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. or by appointment.
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 3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. and by appointment. Zoom office hours upon request.
James Snapko
Lecturer
217 216 Pillsbury Drive
612-626-5853
[email protected]
N/A By appointment 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 Tuesdays and Thursdays 2:15 p.m. - 3:15 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 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. or by appointment.

Affiliate Researchers

Name Contact Specialty
Carol Vernallis
Affiliate Research Professor
[email protected] N/A
Tianyue Zhou
Visiting Scholar
[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.