Faculty

Regular Faculty

Name	Contact Information	Specialty
Hakim Abderrezak Associate Professor	303D Folwell Hall 612-624-1361 [email protected]	20th- and 21st-century French and Francophone studies, visual studies
Bruno Chaouat Professor	309A Folwell Hall 612-624-0314 [email protected]	19th- and 20th-century French literature and thought
Juliette Cherbuliez Professor	309B Folwell Hall 612-624-3473 [email protected]	17th-century literature and culture, theater studies
Lorenzo Fabbri Associate Professor	305C Folwell Hall [email protected]	Contemporary Italian studies, film theory, postcolonial critique
Susanna Ferlito Associate Professor	304G Folwell Hall [email protected]	Modern Italian literature
Ramon Fonkoué Associate Professor Director of Graduate Studies	305A Folwell Hall [email protected]	French language, francophone literatures (West African and French Caribbean) and cinema
Magdala Lissa Jeudy Assistant Professor	303F Folwell Hall 612-624-5807 [email protected]
Kate Paesani Associate Professor	303E Folwell Hall 612-625-3957 [email protected]	Applied linguistics, multiliteracies pedagogy, language teacher development
Susan Noakes Professor Department Chair	305D Folwell Hall 612-624-0076 [email protected]	Late medieval and early Renaissance, French and Italian literature and culture; Global Middle Ages
Ioana Vartolomei Pribiag Assistant Professor	304E Folwell Hall 612-624-9761 [email protected]	Francophone literature and film, postcolonial studies, politics of aesthetics
Jennifer Row Associate Professor	304D Folwell Hall [email protected]	Early modern theater and dance studies, queer and feminist theory, disability studies, history of sexuality
Christophe Wall-Romana Professor	314F Folwell Hall 612-626-8016 [email protected]	French Modernism, poetry, theory, and film studies

Teaching Faculty & Staff

French

Name	Contact	Specialty
Lydia Belatèche Senior Lecturer Faculty Coordinator, College in the Schools CIS French 1003 CIS French 1004	304B Folwell Hall [email protected]	19th- and 20th-century French literature and thought; philosophical and linguistic approaches to literature; art history
Marina Calas Lecturer Coordinator, Intermediate French	314L Folwell Hall 612-624-8894 [email protected]	Second language acquisition and pedagogy; French and Francophone literature
Lauren Goodspeed Lecturer Director of Language Instruction, French	314K Folwell Hall 612-624-4481 [email protected]	Second language acquisition; multiliteracies and genre pedagogies; social justice in language education; teacher development
Ashlie Henery Lecturer Coordinator, Beginning French	314G Folwell Hall 612-624-9599 [email protected]	French language
Lise Hoy Lecturer	303A Folwell Hall [email protected]	French language
Patricia Mougel Senior Lecturer	303C Folwell Hall [email protected]	Second language acquisition and pedagogy, contemporary French business and society
Anne Thompson Teaching Specialist	303A Folwell Hall [email protected]	French language
Janel Toussaint Teaching Specialist	304B Folwell Hall [email protected]	French language
Trina Whitaker Senior Teaching Specialist Director of Undergraduate Studies	304F Folwell Hall 612-624-1590 [email protected]	Second language acquisition and pedagogy, teacher training, teaching language through culture

Italian

Name	Contact	Specialty
Monica Barbieri Senior Teaching Specialist	314C Folwell Hall 612-624-9772 [email protected]	Second language acquisition
Cristina Cocchi Senior Teaching Specialist	314A Folwell Hall 612-624-9770 [email protected]	Second language acquisition
Sabrina Infante	314B Folwell Hall [email protected]	Second language acquisition
Kathleen Rider Senior Teaching Specialist Coordinator, Intermediate Italian	314H Folwell Hall 612-626-7841 [email protected]	Second language acquisition, 20th Century Italian Architecture, Gentrification
Romina Montinari	314B Folwell Hall [email protected]	Second language acquisition

Affiliate Faculty

Affiliate faculty have homes in other departments, but hold appointments in our Graduate French & Italian programs.

Name	Contact	Specialty
Tammy Berberi Associate Professor French and Francophone Studies University of Minnesota, Morris	Humanities 114 University of Minnesota, Morris [email protected]	Disability and aesthetics; Tristan Corbière; 19th-century French literature; disability studies; inclusion in higher education
Sarah Buchanan Associate Professor French and Francophone Studies	[email protected]	Francophone Studies; West African Cinema and Literature; Maghrebian cinema and literature, Caribbean Literature; French Cinema
Giancarlo Casale Associate Professor History	1237 Heller Hall 612-626-4265 [email protected]	Ottoman Empire, pre-modern and early modern world history
Siobhan Craig Associate Professor English	50H Lind Hall 612-625-6087 [email protected]	Fascist-era cinema in Italy and Germany, Italian neorealism, new German cinema
Gabriela Ilnitchi Currie Associate Professor Musicology	100 Ferguson Hall 612-624-0261 [email protected]	Medieval music theory, music iconography, music and culture of the Balkan Peninsula and Western/Central Asia
Amanda Dalola Director Language Center	110B Jones Hall 27 Pleasant Street SE Minneapolis, MN 55455	Sociophonetics, Sociolinguistics, Phonetics, Phonology, Social Media in the L2 classroom, Tweetmining
Michael Gaudio Professor Art History	364 Heller Hall 612-624-0847 [email protected]	Early modern Atlantic world, print history, landscape, art and religion, art and sensory perception, historiography
Njeri Githire Associate Professor African American & African Studies	848 Social Sciences Building 612-625-1687 [email protected]	African literary and cultural production, literature of the African diaspora, women's writings and feminist theory, postcolonial theory and criticism, francophone studies
Ron Greene Professor Communication Studies	225 Ford Hall 612-624-2808 [email protected]	Political communication, legal and popular perspectives on free speech, film exhibition, history of debates on population control
Jaime Hanneken Associate Professor Spanish & Portuguese Studies	214N Folwell Hall 612-626-2540 [email protected]	19th- and 20th-century Latin American literature, postcolonial approaches to literature and culture, francophone literature, critical theory
Kelley Harness Associate Professor School of Music	168 Ferguson Hall 612-624-0298 [email protected]	Musicology and ethnomusicology
Michael Lower Professor History	1220 Heller Hall 612-626-1796 [email protected]	Crusades, medieval Mediterranean and Christian/Muslim relations
Patricia Lorcin Professor History	1020 Heller Hall 612-626-4269 [email protected]	Modern France, western imperialism, colonialism, postcolonial studies
Leslie Morris Professor German, Scandinavian & Dutch	327A Folwell Hall 612-624-4047 [email protected]	20th- and 21st-century German and Austrian literature and poetry, Jewish studies
Steven Ostrow Professor Art History	338A Heller Hall 612-624-4500 [email protected]	17th-century Roman art, Italian baroque art theory, Caravaggio
Kathryn Reyerson Professor History	1120 Heller Hall 612-624-8569 [email protected]	Medieval Europe; the Mediterranean and France; social, economic, legal, and world history
J.B. Shank Professor History	922 Heller Hall 612-624-7323 [email protected]	Enlightenment science and Newtonianism, European intellectual history, Renaissance science and culture
Shaden Tageldin Associate Professor Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature	235 Nicholson Hall 612-625-8445 [email protected]	19th- and 20th-century literatures in English, Arabic, and French; trans-African and trans-Asian studies; postcolonial studies; histories and ideologies of comparative literature
Igor Tchoukarine Assistant Professor CLA Austrian Studies	314 Social Sciences 612-624-7321 [email protected]	Modern Europe; Central and Southeastern Europe; Travel and Tourism
John Watkins Professor English	312 Lind Hall 612-624-8879 [email protected]	Historiography, sovereignty and queenship, medieval and early modern diplomacy

Emeriti Faculty

Name	Specialty
F.R.P. Akehurst	Medieval French and Occitan language and literature, medieval French law
Daniel Brewer	Ancien Régime literature and culture, critical theory
Mária Minich Brewer	20th-century French literature, culture, and theatre
Peter Lock	19th-century French literature
Betsy Kerr	French linguistics, second language acquisition
Maria Paganini	20th-century French prose
Judith Preckshot	20th-century French studies and Francophone literature
Peter Robinson	19th-century French poetry and culture
Eileen Sivert	19th-century French literature and Québecois studies