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 [email protected]	Creative writing: fiction, playwriting, screenwriting
Elaine Auyoung Associate Professor	310K Pillsbury Hall 612-624-7803 [email protected]	Humanistic learning and higher education, feminist epistemology, the experience of reading, psychological approaches to the arts, 19th-century British literature and culture
Beatrice Bradley Assistant Professor	[email protected]	Early modern literature; critical theory; gender and sexuality studies; histories of embodiment; health humanities
Timothy Brennan Professor	204 Nicholson Hall 612-626-1638 [email protected]	Continental literary and cultural theory, 19th-20th century comparative literature
Peter Campion Professor	110C Pillsbury Hall 612-625-3503 [email protected]	Creative writing: poetry writing, poetry and the visual arts, literary editing
Siobhan Craig Associate Professor	320A Pillsbury Hall [email protected]	Italian and German cinema; literary, cultural, film, feminist, and queer theory
Andrew Elfenbein Professor	320C Pillsbury Hall 612-624-1373 [email protected]	British literature and history, 1700-1900; reading and cognition; queer theory; linguistics
Lianna Farber Associate Professor	320I Pillsbury Hall 612-626-7126 [email protected]	Lyric poetry, children's literature, theories of literature, medieval literature and thought
Megan Finch Assistant Professor	310B Pillsbury Hall [email protected]	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 [email protected]	Creative writing: fiction, journalism
Megan Giddings Assistant Professor	320G Pillsbury Hall 612-625-5075 [email protected]	Creative writing: fiction
Brian Goldberg Associate Professor	320B Pillsbury Hall 612-626-7125 [email protected]	British romantic literature, restoration and 18th-century literature, poetry
Jessica Horvath Williams Assistant Professor	210F Pillsbury Hall 612-625-0183 [email protected]	Critical and Feminist Disability Studies; 19th-century U.S. Literature; 19th-century U.S. women writers; neurodiversity; short fiction
Douglas Kearney Professor	310H Pillsbury Hall 612-626-9921 [email protected]	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 [email protected]	Late Medieval literature, religion, culture, literacy, nature, women's studies
Josephine Lee Professor	110A Pillsbury Hall 612-625-9510 [email protected]	Dramatic literature, theater history, performance studies; Asian American studies
Nabil Matar Professor	210H Pillsbury Hall 612-626-8320 [email protected]	Early modern Euro-Islamic contacts, 17th century British religious literature
Ellen Messer-Davidow Professor	110H Pillsbury Hall 612-625-2071 [email protected]	Cultural and social theory; 20th century American social movements, policy, and law
Nathaniel Mills Associate Professor	310G Pillsbury Hall 612-625-8444 [email protected]	20th-century African American and US literature, the 1930s-1950s African American literary left, US culture and leftist political movements
Kathryn Nuernberger Associate Professor	[email protected]	Creative writing: poetry, creative nonfiction, biography, environmental writing
Dan Philippon Associate Professor	320H Pillsbury Hall 612-624-4209 [email protected]	Environmental literature, history, and ethics; ideas of nature, culture, and place; food studies
Jani Scandura Associate Professor	310D Pillsbury Hall 612-625-9017 [email protected]	Cultural studies and critical theory; 20th century North American literatures, film, mass culture
Andrew Scheil Professor	210C Pillsbury Hall 612-625-9518 [email protected]	Anglo-Saxon language and literature, literatures of late antiquity/early Middle Ages
Katherine Scheil Professor	210K Pillsbury Hall 612-625-6592 [email protected]	Shakespeare, early modern lit, theatre, women writers, history of reading, 18th c lit
Julie Schumacher Regents Professor	310E Pillsbury Hall 612-625-3459 [email protected]	Creative writing: fiction, contemporary fiction, children's literature
Kim Todd Professor	320F Pillsbury Hall 612-625-6095 [email protected]	Creative writing: nonfiction, science and environmental writing, history of creative nonfiction
Rachel Trocchio Assistant Professor	310A Pillsbury Hall 612-625-0134 [email protected]	17th- through 19th-century American literature, puritan studies, early modern studies, religion and cognition
John Watkins Professor	310F Pillsbury Hall 612-624-8879 [email protected]	Historiography, sovereignty and queenship, medieval and early modern diplomacy
Amit Yahav Associate Professor	310C Pillsbury Hall 612-626-7124 [email protected]	18th century British cultures and literatures, narrative theory, literature and philosophy, historical humanities, history and theory of popular culture

Affiliate Faculty

Name	Contact	Specialties
Tony C. Brown Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature	235C Nicholson Hall 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
Keya Ganguly Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature	222 Nicholson Hall 612-625-5871 [email protected]	Critical theory, film, postcolonialism, politics and practice of ethnography, sociology of culture
Laura Gurak Writing Studies	233 Nolte Hall 612-624-1784 [email protected]	Rhetorical theory; Internet studies; technical writing and communication; digital research methods
Kirsten Jamsen Writing Studies	10 Nicholson Hall 612-625-5355 [email protected]	Writing across the curriculum, composition pedagogy, technology in writing centers and classrooms
Leslie Morris German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch	327A Folwell Hall 612-624-4047 [email protected]	20th century German and Austrian literature, poetry, Jewish studies
Matthew Reznicek Medical Humanities	Diehl Hall 525C [email protected]	Health Humanities, Disability Studies, British and Irish Romanticism, and Victorian Literature
William R. Viestenz Spanish and Portuguese Studies	214L Folwell Hall 612-625-0010 [email protected]	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	[email protected]
Michael Dennis Browne Professor Emeritus	[email protected]
Lois Cucullu Associate Professor Emerita	[email protected]
Maria Damon Professor Emerita	[email protected]
Genevieve Escure Professor Emerita	[email protected]
M. J. Fitzgerald Associate Professor Emerita	[email protected]
Shirley Garner Professor Emerita	[email protected]
Art Geffen Associate Professor Emeritus	[email protected]
Ray Gonzalez Professor Emeritus	[email protected]
Edward Griffin Professor Emeritus	[email protected]
Patricia Hampl Regents Professor Emerita	[email protected]
Michael Hancher Professor Emeritus	[email protected]">[email protected]
Gordon Hirsch Professor Emeritus	[email protected]
Calvin Kendall Professor Emeritus	[email protected]
Toni McNaron Professor Emerita	[email protected]
Valerie Miner Professor Emerita	[email protected]
Paula Rabinowitz Professor Emerita	[email protected]
Geoffrey Sirc Professor Emeritus	[email protected]
Robert Solotaroff Professor Emeritus	[email protected]
Madelon Sprengnether Regents Professor Emerita	[email protected]
Ellen Stekert Professor Emerita	[email protected]
Joel Weinsheimer Professor Emeritus	[email protected]
John Wright Professor Emeritus	[email protected]

Instructors

Name	Contact
Jack Christian Lecturer	210G Pillsbury Hall 612-626-7614 [email protected]
Eric Daigre Senior Lecturer	110I Pillsbury Hall 612-626-9555 [email protected]
K Ho Teaching Specialist	210D Pillsbury Hall [email protected]
Heather Holcombe Lecturer	210E Pillsbury Hall 612-626-7122 [email protected]
Matthew Hubbell Contract Assistant Professor	110F Pillsbury Hall 612-626-7119 [email protected]
Jennifer Jodell Lecturer	210D Pillsbury Hall [email protected]
Chris Kamerbeek Lecturer	302A Pillsbury Hall 612-626-0373 [email protected]
Janna Knittel Lecturer	210I Pillsbury Hall [email protected]
Jake Lancaster Lecturer	110B Pillsbury Hall 612-624-6642 [email protected]
May Lee-Yang Senior Lecturer	210B Pillsbury Hall [email protected]
Melissa Licht Senior Lecturer	210A Pillsbury Hall 612-625-4881 [email protected]
Amanda Minoff Lecturer	302E Pillsbury Hall [email protected]
Sruthi Narayanan Lecturer	110J Pillsbury Hall [email protected]
Miriam Queensen Teaching Specialist	302E Pillsbury Hall [email protected]
Vanessa Ramos Lecturer	302A Pillsbury Hall 612-626-0373 [email protected]
David Rodriguez-Martinez Lecturer	210G Pillsbury Hall 612-626-7614 [email protected]
Ann Tandy-Treiber Senior Lecturer	110G Pillsbury Hall 612-626-7115 [email protected]
Elizabeth Weixel Lecturer	210J Pillsbury Hall [email protected]
Jordan Young-Zabrocki Teaching Specialist	210J Pillsbury Hall [email protected]

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
Krys Belc Edelstein-Keller Writer in Residence	110E Pillsbury Hall 612-625-3744 [email protected]
Pei-Chen Liao Visiting Fulbright Fellow	302A Pillsbury Hall 612-626-0373 [email protected]