Faculty
Full-Time Faculty
Name | Contact | Specialty | Office Hours Spring 2023 |
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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 | Thursdays 10:00 - 12:00 p.m. via Zoom or 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 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. or by appointment. |
Cesare Casarino
Professor Director of Undergraduate Studies
|
226 Nicholson Hall casarino@umn.edu |
Philosophy, cinema, literature, queer theory | By appointment only on Mondays, 5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. via Zoom, and Thursdays, 2:30 - 3:30 in person. |
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 | |
Keya Ganguly |
222 Nicholson Hall 612-625-5871 gangu003@umn.edu |
The Frankfurt School, Intellectual History of Vision, Sociology of Culture, Postcolonial criticism, Global cinema, Marxism, Peripheral Literature | Tuesdays 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. via Zoom, Thursdays, 2:30 - 3:30 p.m. in Nicholson 222. |
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 | Tuesdays 3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. or by appointment. |
Alice Lovejoy Associate Professor |
235C Nicholson Hall 612-626-1552 alovejoy@umn.edu |
Film history, historiography, nonfiction, experimental film, East Central European film, literature, cultural history | On leave spring and fall 2023. |
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 | Tuesdays 11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. and by appointment. |
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 only. |
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 |
Mondays 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. and Wednesdays 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. |
Visiting Faculty
Name | Contact | Specialty | Office Hours Spring 2023 |
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Saskia Jaszoltowski |
220 Nicholson Hall 612-624-9596 sjaszolt@umn.edu |
Music history and memory culture; film music and screen-media musicology; music and posthuman theory | Mondays and Wednesdays 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. |
Senior Lecturers
Name | Contact | Specialty | Office Hours Spring 2023 |
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Matthew Hadley | 150C Nicholson Hall 612-624-2634 hadl0046@umn.edu |
Science studies, biocapital, Marxism, practices of speculation, narrative fiction | Wednesdays 3:00 p.m. - 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 | By appointment only via Zoom. |
Graeme Stout |
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 |
Tuesdays and Thursdays 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. or by appointment. |
Lecturers
Name | Contact | Specialty | Office Hours Spring 2023 |
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Heidar Azodanloo |
224 Nicholson Hall 612-625-8443 azod0001@umn.edu |
N/A | By appointment only, via Zoom. |
Thomas David | 210 Nicholson Hall 612-624-1538 davi0914@umn.edu |
N/A | Monday and Wednesdays 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 p.m. |
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 | Mondays 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. and Wednesdays 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. or by appointment in 210 Nicholson Hall. |
Matthew Henseler | 231 Nicholson Hall 612-624-2634 hens0073@umn.edu |
N/A | Mondays and Wendesdays 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. or by appointment. |
John Hicks | 146J Nicholson Hall 612-624-2693 hicks494@umn.edu |
N/A | |
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 | Wednesdays 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. or by appointment. |
James Snapko | 217 Nicholson Hall 612-626-5853 snapk002@umn.edu |
N/A | By appointment only. |
Brad Stiffler | 231 Nicholson Hall 612-624-6858 stiff011@umn.edu |
N/A | |
Cory Stockwell |
217 Nicholson Hall |
N/A | Mondays and Wednesdays 3:45 p.m. - 4:45 p.m. |
Visiting Postdoctoral Associate
Name | Contact | Specialty | Office Hours Spring 2023 |
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Ricardo Velasco | velas135@umn.edu | Mondays 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. or by appointment via Zoom, sign up available on Canvas. |