People
| Name | Contact | Specialty |
|---|---|---|
| Alice Lovejoy Director of Graduate Studies Associate Professor Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature |
Nicholson Hall 235C 612-626-1552 |
Film history and historiography; nonfiction and experimental film; East Central European film, literature, and cultural history |
| Graeme Stout Senior Lecturer and Film Studies Coordinator Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature |
213 Nicholson Hall 612-625-2901 stou0046@umn.edu |
Film, television, and media studies; political and social theory; visual arts and intellectual history |
Moving Image Studies Faculty
| Name | Contact | Specialty |
|---|---|---|
| Hakim Abderrezak Associate Professor French & Italian |
abder002@umn.edu | Maghrebi & Beur literature, cinema & music; representations of Clandestine migrations in Arabic, French, & Spanish; Francophone studies |
| Ben Bigelow Assistant Professor German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch |
bbigelow@umn.edu | Scandinavian literature and culture |
| Jane Blocker Professor Art History |
block023@umn.edu | 20th-century theory & criticism, alternative media, performance Art |
| Cesare Casarino Professor Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature |
casarino@umn.edu | European cinemas, literary theory, 19th- and 20th-century comparative literatures |
| Siobhan Craig Associate Professor English |
craig026@umn.edu | Fascist-era cinema in Italy and Germany, new German cinema, the cinematic body |
| Jigna Desai Professor Gender, Women, & Sexuality Studies |
desai003@umn.edu | Asian American literature and media, feminist theory, postcolonial studies |
| Lorenzo Fabbri Assistant Professor French & Italian |
lfabbri@umn.edu | Italian cinema, continental philosophy and literary theory, postcolonial studies, visual culture under fascism, biopolitics |
| Joseph R Farag Assistant Professor Asian & Middle Eastern Studies |
jrfarag@umn.edu | Palestinian literature and film; modern Arabic literature; Arab cultural studies; modern Arab history, politics, and society; Arab American studies |
| Ana Forcinito Professor Spanish & Portuguese Studies |
aforcini@umn.edu | 19th- and 20th-century Latin American literature, women's writing, Latin American film |
| Michael Gallope Associate Professor Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature |
mgallope@umn.edu | Music and Sound, Continental Philosophy and Critical Theory, Peripheral Modernisms, Black/African Diaspora, Popular Culture |
| Keya Ganguly Professor Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature |
gangu003@umn.edu | South Asian film and culture, film and visual studies, postcolonial theory and criticism |
| Sumanth Gopinath Associate Professor School of Music |
sumanth@umn.edu | Music after WWII, musical hermeneutics, music and globalization |
| Ron Greene Professor Communication Studies |
green179@umn.edu | Film exhibition, educational uses of film or movies, Legal and popular perspectives on free speech, political communication |
| Maggie Hennefeld Assistant Professor Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature |
mhennefe@umn.edu | Silent cinema, film history and film theory, film and popular culture |
| Amy Kaminsky Professor Emeritus Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies |
kamin001@umn.edu | Latin American film, Jewish writing and film in Argentina, feminist literary theory and criticism |
| Richard Leppert Regents Professor Emeritus Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature |
leppe001@umn.edu | Art history, cultural studies, musicology |
| Alice Lovejoy Associate Professor Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature |
alovejoy@umn.edu | Film history and historiography; nonfiction and experimental film; East Central European film, literature, and cultural history |
| Lynn Lukkas Professor Art |
lukkas@umn.edu | Video, film, interdisciplinary art |
| Christine Marran Film Studies Advisory Committee Chair Professor Asian & Middle Eastern Studies |
marran@umn.edu | Gender and sexuality in print and film culture, Japanese and Asian film, modern Japanese literature |
| Richard McCormick Professor German, Scandinavian & Dutch |
mccor001@umn.edu | German film History, post-WWII German cinema, Weimar film and culture |
| Jason McGrath Associate Professor Asian & Middle Eastern Studies |
jmcgrath@umn.edu | Chinese and international cinema, modern and contemporary Chinese literature and culture, issues of convention and intextuality in film theory |
| Laurie Ouellette Professor Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature and Communication Studies |
ouell031@umn.edu | Critical media studies, cultural studies, feminist criticism, television studies, reality TV, citizenship, governmentality and media |
| Sonali Pahwa Assistant Professor Theatre Arts & Dance |
pahwa007@umn.edu | Middle East Studies, performance studies, digital media, gender studies, youth culture, Egypt |
| Mark Pedelty Professor Communication Studies |
pedeltmh@umn.edu | Music as environmental communication, ethnographic research in the USA, El Salvador, and Mexico |
| Baryon Tensor Posadas Associate Professor Asian & Middle Eastern Studies |
bposadas@umn.edu | Modern Japanese Literature, Japanese Cinema and Animation, Science Fiction and Empire, Politics of Literary Forms and Genres |
| Paula Rabinowitz Professor Emerita English |
rabin001@umn.edu | American women, minority, and working-class writers; film, photography, media; visual cultures |
| Jani Scandura Associate Professor English |
jani@umn.edu | Cultural studies and critical theory; 20th-century North American literatures, film, mass culture |
| Jenny Schmid Associate Professor Art |
jrschmid@umn.edu | Combined print media, digital applications, photolithography, mezzotinting |
| Suvadip Sinha Assistant Professor Asian & Middle Eastern Studies |
ssinha@umn.edu | Indian cinema, modern South Asian literature and culture, global modernities, philosophy of the non-human |
| Catherine R. Squires Professor Communication Studies |
squir050@umn.edu | Media, race and politics; gender and media studies; public sphere studies; community-engaged research; educational inequality |
| Christophe Wall-Romana Associate Professor French & Italian |
wallr007@umn.edu | French cinema, silent cinema, media history |
| Margaret Werry Associate Professor Theatre Arts & Dance |
werry001@umn.edu | Cultural policy and governmentality—tourism, heritage, film; 19th-century Euro-American and British colonial popular theatre and entertainment culture, museum studies |
| Travis Workman Associate Professor Asian & Middle Eastern Studies |
tworkman@umn.edu | Korean and Japanese literature, film, and intellectual history; humanism and empire; critical theory; film melodrama; Cold War aesthetics; North Korea |