Faculty

Our faculty are deeply committed to the creation and transmission of knowledge about literature and its related fields. We teach our students to read and analyze; to write in scholarly, creative, and public ways; and to put their knowledge and skills to work for the benefit of many communities. Visiting scholars and lecturers bring expertise in diverse areas of study, and our graduate students come from all over the globe as both students and graduate assistants/instructors, bringing their unique research interests to their teaching.

Regular Faculty

Name	Contact	Specialties
Aamina Ahmad Assistant Professor	110D Pillsbury Hall 612-625-0332 ahmad291@umn.edu
Elaine Auyoung Associate Professor	310K Pillsbury Hall 612-624-7803 eauyoung@umn.edu	19th-century British literature and culture, methods of reading, psychology and the arts, education and the humanities
Timothy Brennan Professor	204 Nicholson Hall 612-626-1638 brenn032@umn.edu	Continental literary and cultural theory, 19th-20th century comparative literature
Peter Campion Professor	110C Pillsbury Hall 612-625-3503 pcampion@umn.edu	Creative writing: poetry; poetry and the visual arts; prosody
Siobhan Craig Associate Professor	320A Pillsbury Hall craig026@umn.edu	Italian and German cinema; literary, cultural, film, feminist, and queer theory
Andrew Elfenbein Professor	320C Pillsbury Hall 612-624-1373 elfen001@umn.edu	British literature and history, 1700-1900; reading and cognition; queer theory; linguistics
Lianna Farber Associate Professor	320I Pillsbury Hall 612-626-7126 farbe004@umn.edu	Medieval literature and thought
Megan Finch Assistant Professor	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
V.V. Ganeshananthan Associate Professor	310I Pillsbury Hall 612-626-7123 vganesha@umn.edu	Creative writing, fiction, journalism
Megan Giddings Assistant Professor	320G Pillsbury Hall 612-625-5075 giddi054@umn.edu
Brian Goldberg Associate Professor	320B Pillsbury Hall 612-626-7125 goldb016@umn.edu	British romantic literature, restoration and 18th-century literature, poetry
Jessica Horvath Williams Assistant Professor	210F Pillsbury Hall 612-625-0183 jchwil@umn.edu	Critical and Feminist Disability Studies; 19th-century U.S. Literature; 19th-century U.S. women writers; neurodiversity; short fiction
Douglas Kearney Associate Professor	310H Pillsbury Hall 612-626-9921 dkearney@umn.edu	Creative writing: poetry, nonfiction, libretti; black aesthetics/poetics/literature; poetics/prosody; experimental writing; writing for performance; popular/cultural criticism; hip hop studies; graphic design
Rebecca Krug Professor	320D Pillsbury Hall 612-626-7127 krugx001@umn.edu	Late Medieval literature, religion, culture, literacy, nature, women's studies
Josephine Lee Professor	110A Pillsbury Hall 612-625-9510 jolee@umn.edu	Dramatic literature, theater history, performance studies; Asian American studies
Nabil Matar Professor	210H Pillsbury Hall 612-626-8320 matar010@umn.edu	Early modern Euro-Islamic contacts, 17th century British religious literature
Ellen Messer-Davidow Professor	110H Pillsbury Hall 612-625-2071 emd@umn.edu	Cultural and social theory; 20th century American social movements, policy, and law
Nathaniel Mills Associate Professor	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
Kathryn Nuernberger Associate Professor	knuernbe@umn.edu	Creative writing: poetry, nonfiction
Dan Philippon Associate Professor	320H Pillsbury Hall 612-624-4209 danp@umn.edu	Environmental literature, history, and ethics; ideas of nature, culture, and place
Jani Scandura Associate Professor	310D Pillsbury Hall 612-625-9017 jani@umn.edu	Cultural studies and critical theory; 20th century North American literatures, film, mass culture
Andrew Scheil Professor	210C Pillsbury Hall 612-625-9518 ascheil@umn.edu	Anglo-Saxon language and literature, literatures of late antiquity/early Middle Ages
Katherine Scheil Professor	210K Pillsbury Hall 612-625-6592 kscheil@umn.edu	Shakespeare, early modern lit, theatre, women writers, history of reading, 18th c lit
Julie Schumacher Regents Professor	310E Pillsbury Hall 612-625-3459 schum003@umn.edu	Creative writing: fiction, contemporary fiction, children's literature
Kim Todd Professor	320F Pillsbury Hall 612-625-6095 kftodd@umn.edu	Creative writing (literary nonfiction), science and environmental writing
Rachel Trocchio Assistant Professor	310A Pillsbury Hall 612-625-0134 trocc004@umn.edu	17th- through 19th-century American literature, puritan studies, early modern studies, religion and cognition
John Watkins Professor	310F Pillsbury Hall 612-624-8879 watki005@umn.edu	Historiography, sovereignty and queenship, medieval and early modern diplomacy
Amit Yahav Associate Professor	310C Pillsbury Hall 612-626-7124 ayahav@umn.edu	18th century, the novel, aesthetics, theory

Affiliate Faculty

Name	Contact	Specialties
Tony C. Brown Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature	235C 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
Keya Ganguly Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature	222 Nicholson Hall 612-625-5871 gangu003@umn.edu	Critical theory, film, postcolonialism, politics and practice of ethnography, sociology of culture
Laura Gurak Writing Studies	233 Nolte Hall 612-624-1784 gurakl@umn.edu	Rhetorical theory; Internet studies; technical writing and communication; digital research methods
Kirsten Jamsen Writing Studies	10 Nicholson Hall 612-625-5355 kjamsen@umn.edu	Writing across the curriculum, composition pedagogy, technology in writing centers and classrooms
Leslie Morris German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch	327A Folwell Hall 612-624-4047 morri074@umn.edu	20th century German and Austrian literature, poetry, Jewish studies
Christopher Pexa American Indian Studies	19 Scott Hall 612-624-1338 cpexa@umn.edu	Native American and Indigenous literatures, Dakota language and literature, 19th- and 20th-century American literature, U.S. federal Indian law, critical indigenous theory, sovereignty studies, settler colonial studies
Donald Ross Writing Studies	223 Nolte Hall 612-625-5585 rossj001@umn.edu	Travel writing; rhetoric of argument; computers in writing instruction; writing in academic disciplines
William R. Viestenz Spanish and Portuguese Studies	214L Folwell Hall 612-625-0010 wviesten@umn.edu	Contemporary Iberian literature and culture; post-secularism and the sacred; bullfighting and animal rights; neo-ruralism; violence and cultural memory

Emeriti Faculty

Name	Contact
Charles Baxter Former Edelstein-Keller Professor in Creative Writing	baxte087@umn.edu
Michael Dennis Browne Professor Emeritus	mdb@umn.edu
Tom Clayton Regents Professor Emeritus	tsc@umn.edu
Lois Cucullu Associate Professor Emerita	lcucullu@umn.edu
Maria Damon Professor Emerita	damon001@umn.edu
Genevieve Escure Professor Emerita	escur001@umn.edu
M. J. Fitzgerald Associate Professor Emerita	fitzg007@umn.edu
Shirley Garner Professor Emerita	sngarner@umn.edu
Art Geffen Associate Professor Emeritus	geffe001@umn.edu
Ray Gonzalez Professor Emeritus	gonza049@umn.edu
Edward Griffin Professor Emeritus	griffin@umn.edu
David Haley Professor Emeritus	dbhaley@umn.edu
Patricia Hampl Regents Professor Emerita	hampl@umn.edu
Michael Hancher Professor Emeritus	mh@umn.edu">mh@umn.edu
Gordon Hirsch Professor Emeritus	hirsc002@umn.edu
Calvin Kendall Professor Emeritus	kenda001@umn.edu
David Luke Assistant Professor Emeritus	lukex001@umn.edu
Toni McNaron Professor Emerita	mcnar001@umn.edu
Valerie Miner Professor Emerita	miner002@umn.edu
Paula Rabinowitz Professor Emerita	rabin001@umn.edu
Geoffrey Sirc Professor Emeritus	sirc@umn.edu
Robert Solotaroff Professor Emeritus	solot001@umn.edu
Madelon Sprengnether Regents Professor Emerita	spren001@umn.edu
Ellen Stekert Professor Emerita	steke001@umn.edu
Joel Weinsheimer Professor Emeritus	weins001@umn.edu
John Wright Professor Emeritus	wrigh003@umn.edu

Instructors

Name	Contact
Amy Bolis Lecturer	210D Pillsbury Hall 612-625-3503 bolis002@umn.edu
Savannah Brooks Teaching Specialist	210G Pillsbury Hall 612-626-7614 broo0316@umn.edu
James Cihlar Senior Lecturer	110B Pillsbury Hall 612-624-6642 cihla002@umn.edu
Heidi Czerwiec Teaching Specialist	210E Pillsbury Hall 612-626-7122 czerw017@umn.edu
Eric Daigre Senior Lecturer	110I Pillsbury Hall 612-626-9555 daig0004@umn.edu
Heather Holcombe Lecturer	210E Pillsbury Hall 612-626-7122 hholcomb@umn.edu
Chris Kamerbeek Senior Lecturer	110F Pillsbury Hall 612-626-7119 kame0026@umn.edu
Janna Knittel Lecturer	210I Pillsbury Hall 612-625-1325 knittel@umn.edu
Jake Lancaster Lecturer	210A Pillsbury Hall 612-625-2563 lanca044@umn.edu
May Lee-Yang Teaching Specialist	302E Pillsbury Hall leex0765@umn.edu
Melissa Licht Lecturer	210A Pillsbury Hall 612-625-2563 licht003@umn.edu
Lara Mimosa Montes Teaching Specialist	110J Pillsbury Hall monte401@umn.edu
Miriam Queensen Teaching Specialist	210D Pillsbury Hall 612-625-3503 mqueense@umn.edu
Kathryn Savage Teaching Specialist	110J Pillsbury Hall holm0687@umn.edu
Sun Yung Shing Teaching Specialist	210B Pillsbury Hall shin0170@umn.edu
Ann Tandy-Treiber Senior Lecturer	110G Pillsbury Hall 612-626-7115 tandy004@umn.edu
Claire Wahmanholm Lecturer	wahma017@umn.edu
Elizabeth Weixel Lecturer	210J Pillsbury Hall 612-625-3503 weix0010@umn.edu

Postdoctoral Fellows

Name	Contact
torrin greathouse Post-MFA Fellow	210B Pillsbury Hall great026@umn.edu
Sruthi Narayanan Post-MFA Fellow	302A Pillsbury Hall naray216@umn.edu
David Rodriguez-Martinez Postdoctoral Fellow	210I Pillsbury Hall 612-625-1325 rodri966@umn.edu

Visiting Faculty

In accordance with University of Minnesota Policies, we welcome visiting scholars. Please note that all visiting positions are subject to the approval of the chair.

Name	Contact	Specialties
Kao Kalia Yang Edelstein-Keller Writer in Residence	110E Pillsbury Hall 612-625-3744 yang1225@umn.edu	Creative Writing: literary nonfiction, memoir, children's literature