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	Office Hours
Elaine Auyoung Associate Professor	310F Lind Hall 612-624-7803 eauyoung@umn.edu	19th-century British literature, the novel, psychology of reading, aesthetics	By appointment
Charles Baxter Edelstein-Keller Professor in Creative Writing	255 Lind Hall 612-625-3744 baxte087@umn.edu	Creative writing: fiction, modernism, contemporary fiction, American literature
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	TTh 4:30pm - 5:30pm
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
V.V. Ganeshananthan Assistant Professor	12 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; experiemental 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 U.S. 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
Christopher Pexa Assistant Professor	50D Lind Hall 612-625-4001 cpexa@umn.edu	Native American and indigenous literatures (especially Dakota); Native American and indigenous studies; settler colonial studies; U.S. federal Indian law; critical indigenous theory; C19 American literature
Dan Philippon Associate Professor	21 Lind Hall 612-624-4209 danp@umn.edu	Environmental literature, history, and ethics; ideas of nature, culture, and place	By appointment
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	By appointment
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	TTh 11:15am - 12:15pm or by appointment
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	TTh 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Amit Yahav Associate Professor	50A Lind Hall 612-626-7124 ayahav@umn.edu	18th century, the novel, aesthetics, theory	Th 12:40pm - 2:00pm

Affiliate Faculty

Name	Contact	Specialties
Robert Brown Jr. Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature	206 Nicholson Hall 612-624-8878 brown004@umn.edu	Cultural studies of science and technology, rhetoric, literacy and critical pedagogy
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
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
Lonnie Durham Assistant Professor Emeritus
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	Office Hours
Swati Avasthi Lecturer	258 Lind Hall 612-625-4881 avas0001@umn.edu
James Cihlar Senior Lecturer	210G Lind Hall 612-624-6642 cihla002@umn.edu	MW 4:30pm - 5:30pm or by appointment
Melissa Cundieff-Pexa Instructor	210F Lind Hall 612-625-9025 cundi016@umn.edu
Heidi Czerwiec Lecturer	258 Lind Hall 612-625-4881 czerw017@umn.edu
Eric Daigre Senior Lecturer	257 Lind Hall 612-626-9555 daig0004@umn.edu	M 11:15am - 12:30pm or by appointment
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	M 1:00pm - 2:30pm T 11:00am - 12:30 pm
Erin Kottke Lecturer	254 Lind Hall 612-626-0753 ekottke@umn.edu
Annemarie Lawless Lecturer	lawle053@umn.edu
Melissa Licht Lecturer	253 Lind Hall 612-626-7122 licht003@umn.edu
Meg Martin Lecturer	17 Lind Hall 612-625-1325 martinme@umn.edu	M 3:00pm - 5:00pm
Steph Opitz Lecturer	254 Lind Hall 612-626-0753 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	M 4:00pm - 6:00pm
Anne Roth-Reinhardt Lecturer	roth0042@umn.edu
Emily Strasser Lecturer	16 Lind Hall 612-625-3503 stras086@umn.edu
Ann Tandy-Treiber Senior Lecturer	252 Lind Hall 612-626-7115 tandy004@umn.edu	T 11:30am - 1:30pm
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.

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