Faculty

Regular Faculty

Name	Contact Information	Specialty
Hakim Abderrezak Associate Professor	303D Folwell Hall 612-624-1361 abder002@umn.edu	20th- and 21st-century French and Francophone studies, visual studies
Bruno Chaouat Professor	309A Folwell Hall 612-624-0314 chaou001@umn.edu	19th- and 20th-century French literature and thought
Juliette Cherbuliez Professor	309B Folwell Hall 612-624-3473 cherbuli@umn.edu	17th-century literature and culture, theater studies
Lorenzo Fabbri Associate Professor	305C Folwell Hall lfabbri@umn.edu	Contemporary Italian studies, film theory, postcolonial critique
Susanna Ferlito Associate Professor	304G Folwell Hall ferli001@umn.edu	Modern Italian literature
Ramon Fonkoué Associate Professor Director of Graduate Studies	305A Folwell Hall fonko002@umn.edu	French language, francophone literatures (West African and French Caribbean) and cinema
Magdala Lissa Jeudy Assistant Professor	303F Folwell Hall 612-624-5807 mjeudy@umn.edu
Kate Paesani Associate Professor	303E Folwell Hall 612-625-3957 kpaesani@umn.edu	Applied linguistics, multiliteracies pedagogy, language teacher development
Susan Noakes Professor Department Chair	305D Folwell Hall 612-624-0076 noake001@umn.edu	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 ivartolo@umn.edu	Francophone literature and film, postcolonial studies, politics of aesthetics
Jennifer Row Associate Professor	304D Folwell Hall jjrow@umn.edu	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 wallr007@umn.edu	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 belat001@umn.edu	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 mcalas@umn.edu	Second language acquisition and pedagogy; French and Francophone literature
Lauren Goodspeed Lecturer Director of Language Instruction, French	314K Folwell Hall 612-624-4481 goods056@umn.edu	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 ahenery@umn.edu	French language
Lise Hoy Lecturer	303A Folwell Hall hoyxx002@umn.edu	French language
Patricia Mougel Senior Lecturer	303C Folwell Hall mouge001@umn.edu	Second language acquisition and pedagogy, contemporary French business and society
Anne Thompson Teaching Specialist	303A Folwell Hall thom2626@umn.edu	French language
Janel Toussaint Teaching Specialist	304B Folwell Hall tous0028@umn.edu	French language
Trina Whitaker Senior Teaching Specialist Director of Undergraduate Studies	304F Folwell Hall 612-624-1590 whita006@umn.edu	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 barbi001@umn.edu	Second language acquisition
Cristina Cocchi Senior Teaching Specialist	314A Folwell Hall 612-624-9770 cocch005@umn.edu	Second language acquisition
Sabrina Infante	314B Folwell Hall sinfante@umn.edu	Second language acquisition
Kathleen Rider Senior Teaching Specialist Coordinator, Intermediate Italian	314H Folwell Hall 612-626-7841 ride0002@umn.edu	Second language acquisition, 20th Century Italian Architecture, Gentrification
Romina Montinari	314B Folwell Hall monta294@umn.edu	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 berberit@morris.umn.edu	Disability and aesthetics; Tristan Corbière; 19th-century French literature; disability studies; inclusion in higher education
Sarah Buchanan Associate Professor French and Francophone Studies	buchansb@morris.umn.edu	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 casale@umn.edu	Ottoman Empire, pre-modern and early modern world history
Siobhan Craig Associate Professor English	50H Lind Hall 612-625-6087 craig026@umn.edu	Fascist-era cinema in Italy and Germany, Italian neorealism, new German cinema
Gabriela Ilnitchi Currie Associate Professor Musicology	100 Ferguson Hall 612-624-0261 ilnit001@umn.edu	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 gaudio@umn.edu	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 ngithire@umn.edu	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 green179@umn.edu	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 hanne045@umn.edu	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 harne005@umn.edu	Musicology and ethnomusicology
Michael Lower Professor History	1220 Heller Hall 612-626-1796 mlower@umn.edu	Crusades, medieval Mediterranean and Christian/Muslim relations
Patricia Lorcin Professor History	1020 Heller Hall 612-626-4269 plorcin@umn.edu	Modern France, western imperialism, colonialism, postcolonial studies
Leslie Morris Professor German, Scandinavian & Dutch	327A Folwell Hall 612-624-4047 morri074@umn.edu	20th- and 21st-century German and Austrian literature and poetry, Jewish studies
Steven Ostrow Professor Art History	338A Heller Hall 612-624-4500 ostro133@umn.edu	17th-century Roman art, Italian baroque art theory, Caravaggio
Kathryn Reyerson Professor History	1120 Heller Hall 612-624-8569 reyer001@umn.edu	Medieval Europe; the Mediterranean and France; social, economic, legal, and world history
J.B. Shank Professor History	922 Heller Hall 612-624-7323 jbshank@umn.edu	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 tageldin@umn.edu	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 itchouka@umn.edu	Modern Europe; Central and Southeastern Europe; Travel and Tourism
John Watkins Professor English	312 Lind Hall 612-624-8879 watki005@umn.edu	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