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
Elaine Auyoung Associate Professor	310F Lind Hall 612-624-7803 eauyoung@umn.edu	19th-century British literature, the novel, psychology of reading, aesthetics
Timothy Brennan Professor	204 Nicholson Hall 612-626-1638 brenn032@umn.edu	Continental literary and cultural theory, 19th-20th century comparative literature
Peter Campion Associate Professor	14 Lind Hall 612-625-3503 pcampion@umn.edu	Creative writing: poetry; poetry and the visual arts; prosody
Siobhan Craig Associate Professor	50H Lind Hall 612-625-6087 craig026@umn.edu	Italian and German cinema; literary, cultural, film, feminist, and queer theory
Andrew Elfenbein Professor	207C Lind Hall 612-624-1373 elfen001@umn.edu	British literature and history, 1700-1900; reading and cognition; queer theory; linguistics
Lianna Farber Associate Professor	210K Lind Hall 612-626-7126 farbe004@umn.edu	Medieval literature and thought
M. J. Fitzgerald Associate Professor	13 Lind Hall 612-625-0183 fitzg007@umn.edu	Creative writing: fiction, Dante Alighieri, British literature, world literatures
Megan Finch Assistant Professor	15 Lind 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 Assistant Professor	210M Lind Hall 612-626-7123 vganesha@umn.edu	Creative writing, fiction, journalism
Brian Goldberg Associate Professor	210L Lind Hall 612-626-7125 goldb016@umn.edu	British romantic literature, restoration and 18th century literature, poetry
Ray Gonzalez Professor	330A Lind Hall 612-625-0332 gonza049@umn.edu	Creative writing: poetry, creative nonfiction, fiction; US Latino literature
David Haley Professor	310C Lind Hall 612-625–6615 dbhaley@umn.edu	History, literature and politics from 16th to 19th century, drama, Bible as literature
Michael Hancher Professor	310B Lind Hall 612-625-5075 mh@umn.edu	Victorian studies, book history, lexicography, digital humanities
Qadri Ismail Professor	19 Lind Hall 612-625-6374 ismai004@umn.edu	Cultural studies, postcolonial literature, literary theory, gender/sexuality
Douglas Kearney Assistant Professor	210C Lind 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	210E Lind Hall 612-626-7127 krugx001@umn.edu	Late Medieval literature, religion, culture, literacy, nature, women's studies
Josephine Lee Professor	310D Lind Hall 612-625-9510 jolee@umn.edu	Dramatic literature, theater history, performance studies; Asian American studies
Nabil Matar Professor	330C Lind Hall 612-626-8320 matar010@umn.edu	Early modern Euro-Islamic contacts, 17th century British religious literature
Ellen Messer-Davidow Professor	22 Lind Hall 612-625-2071 emd@umn.edu	Cultural and social theory; 20th century American social movements, policy, and law
Nathaniel Mills Associate Professor	50C Lind 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 Assistant Professor	knuernbe@umn.edu	Creative writing: poetry, nonfiction
Dan Philippon Associate Professor	21 Lind Hall 612-624-4209 danp@umn.edu	Environmental literature, history, and ethics; ideas of nature, culture, and place
Jani Scandura Associate Professor	210D Lind Hall 612-625-9017 jani@umn.edu	Cultural studies and critical theory; 20th century North American literatures, film, mass culture
Andrew Scheil Professor	310E Lind Hall 612-625-9518 ascheil@umn.edu	Anglo-Saxon language and literature, literatures of late antiquity/early Middle Ages
Katherine Scheil Professor	330B Lind Hall 612-625-6592 kscheil@umn.edu	Shakespeare, early modern lit, theatre, women writers, history of reading, 18th c lit
Julie Schumacher Professor	336 Lind Hall 612-625-3459 schum003@umn.edu	Creative writing: fiction, contemporary fiction, children's literature
Kim Todd Associate Professor	20 Lind Hall 612-625-6095 kftodd@umn.edu	Creative writing (literary nonfiction), science and environmental writing
Rachel Trocchio Assistant Professor	210J Lind Hall 612-625-0134 trocc004@umn.edu	17th- through 19th-century American literature, puritan studies, early modern studies, religion and cognition
John Watkins Professor	204 Lind Hall 612-624-8879 watki005@umn.edu	Historiography, sovereignty and queenship, medieval and early modern diplomacy
Amit Yahav Associate Professor	50A Lind 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 612-624-1784 gurakl@umn.edu	Rhetorical theory; Internet studies; technical writing and communication; digital research methods
Kirsten Jamsen Writing Studies	10 Nicholson 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
Donald Ross Writing Studies	223 Nolte 612-625-5585 rossj001@umn.edu	Travel writing; rhetoric of argument; computers in writing instruction; writing in academic disciplines

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
Shirley Garner Professor Emerita	sngarner@umn.edu
Art Geffen Associate Professor Emeritus	geffe001@umn.edu
Edward Griffin Professor Emeritus	griffin@umn.edu
Patricia Hampl Regents Professor Emerita	hampl@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
Marty Roth Professor Emeritus	rothx002@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
Charles Sugnet Associate Professor Emeritus	sugnet@umn.edu
Joel Weinsheimer Professor Emeritus	weins001@umn.edu
John Wright Professor Emeritus	wrigh003@umn.edu

Instructors

Name	Contact
James Cihlar Senior Lecturer	210G Lind Hall 612-624-6642 cihla002@umn.edu
Eric Daigre Senior Lecturer	257 Lind Hall 612-626-9555 daig0004@umn.edu
Jenna Dreier Lecturer	leste101@umn.edu
Heather Holcombe Lecturer	259 Lind Hall 612-626-7614 hholcomb@umn.edu
Chris Kamerbeek Senior Lecturer	256 Lind Hall 612-626-7119 kame0026@umn.edu
Erin Kottke Teaching Speclialist	ekottke@umn.edu
Annemarie Lawless Lecturer	258 Lind Hall 612-625-4881 lawle053@umn.edu
Melissa Licht Lecturer	253 Lind Hall 612-626-7122 licht003@umn.edu
Steph Opitz Teaching Specialist	opit0013@umn.edu
John Pistelli Lecturer	254 Lind Hall 612-626-0753 piste004@umn.edu
Miriam Queensen Teaching Specialist	16 Lind Hall 612-625-3503 mqueense@umn.edu
Anne Roth-Reinhardt Lecturer	258 Lind Hall 612-625-4881 roth0042@umn.edu
Ann Tandy-Treiber Senior Lecturer	252 Lind Hall 612-626-7115 tandy004@umn.edu
Michael Tortorello Adjunct Assistant Professor	17 Lind Hall 612-625-1325 torto005@umn.edu
Elizabeth Weixel Lecturer	259 Lind Hall 612-626-7614 weix0010@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	yang1225@umn.edu	Creative Writing: literary nonfiction, memoir, children's literature

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