People
| Name | Contact | Specialty |
|---|---|---|
| Keya Ganguly Director of Graduate Studies Professor Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature |
222 216 Pillsbury Dr. 612-625-5871 [email protected] |
South Asian film and culture, film and visual studies, postcolonial theory and criticism |
| Graeme Stout Senior Lecturer and Film Studies Coordinator Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature |
213 216 Pillsbury Dr. 612-625-2901 [email protected] |
Film, television, and media studies; political and social theory; visual arts and intellectual history |
Moving Image, Media & Sound Faculty
| Name | Contact | Specialty |
|---|---|---|
| Hakim Abderrezak Associate Professor French & Italian |
[email protected] | Maghrebi & Beur literature, cinema & music; representations of Clandestine migrations in Arabic, French, & Spanish; Francophone studies |
| Sophia Beal Associate Professor Spanish & Portuguese Studies |
[email protected] | Brazilian literature and cultural studies, Lusophone-African Literature and cultural studies, urban studies, postcolonial studies |
| Ben Bigelow Associate Professor German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch |
[email protected] | Scandinavian literature and culture |
| Jane Blocker Professor Art History |
[email protected] | 20th-century theory & criticism, alternative media, performance Art |
| Emily Ruth Capper Assistant Professor of Art History and Associate Curator at the Weisman Art Museum |
[email protected] | Modern and contemporary art; the social and intellectual history of art; film and media history; historiography and critical theory |
| Cesare Casarino Professor Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature |
[email protected] | European cinemas, literary theory, 19th- and 20th-century comparative literatures |
| Palita Chunsaengchan Assistant Professor Asian & Middle Eastern Studies |
[email protected] | Comparative Media Aesthetics; Film theory / historiography; Early Thai Cinema; "Media Modernity"; Cinema and Politics of Class, Production and Circulation; Contemporary Southeast Asian Cinema |
| Siobhan Craig Associate Professor English |
[email protected] | Fascist-era cinema in Italy and Germany, new German cinema, the cinematic body |
| Lorenzo Fabbri Associate Professor French & Italian |
[email protected] | Italian cinema, continental philosophy and literary theory, postcolonial studies, visual culture under fascism, biopolitics |
| Joseph R Farag Associate Professor Asian & Middle Eastern Studies |
[email protected] | 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 |
[email protected] | 19th- and 20th-century Latin American literature, women's writing, Latin American film |
| Michael Gallope Professor Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature |
[email protected] | Music and Sound, Continental Philosophy and Critical Theory, Peripheral Modernisms, Black/African Diaspora, Popular Culture |
| Keya Ganguly Professor Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature |
[email protected] | South Asian film and culture, film and visual studies, postcolonial theory and criticism |
| Sumanth Gopinath Associate Professor School of Music |
[email protected] | Music after WWII, musical hermeneutics, music and globalization |
| Ron Greene Professor Communication Studies |
[email protected] | Film exhibition, educational uses of film or movies, Legal and popular perspectives on free speech, political communication |
| Atilla Hallsby Assistant Professor Communication Studies |
[email protected] | Rhetorical studies; post-structuralist theories of discourse; history of secrecy; privacy & transparency; critical surveillance & security studies |
| Maggie Hennefeld Professor Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature |
[email protected] | Silent cinema, film history and film theory, film and popular culture |
| Katerina Korola Assistant Professor German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch |
[email protected] | German and Central European modernism, history of photography, film history and theory, modern art and visual culture, ecocriticism and the environmental humanities |
| Alice Lovejoy Professor Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature |
[email protected] | Film history and historiography; nonfiction and experimental film; East Central European film, literature, and cultural history |
| Lynn Lukkas Professor Art |
[email protected] | Video, film, interdisciplinary art |
| Christine Marran Professor Asian & Middle Eastern Studies |
[email protected] | Gender and sexuality in print and film culture, Japanese and Asian film, modern Japanese literature |
| Stuart McLean Professor Anthropology |
[email protected] | anthropology of modernity, social and cultural theory, historical anthropology, Ireland, European Union |
| Jason McGrath Professor Asian & Middle Eastern Studies |
[email protected] | 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 |
[email protected] | Critical media studies, cultural studies, feminist criticism, television studies, reality TV, citizenship, governmentality and media |
| Sonali Pahwa Associate Professor Theatre Arts & Dance |
[email protected] | Middle East Studies, performance studies, digital media, gender studies, youth culture, Egypt |
| Elliott Powell Beverly and Richard Fink Professor in Liberal Arts Associate Professor of American Studies and Asian American Studies |
[email protected] | American popular music and culture, Comparative race and ethnic studies, Feminist and queer studies, Afro-Asian studies, Black cultural studies, Afro-diasporic popular music, Inter-/cross-cultural music making, Sound studies |
| Ioana Vartolomei Pribiag Assistant Professor French and Italian |
[email protected] | Francophone literature and film, postcolonial studies, politics of aesthetics |
| Jani Scandura Associate Professor English |
[email protected] | Cultural studies and critical theory; 20th-century North American literatures, film, mass culture |
| Jenny Schmid Professor Art |
[email protected] | Combined print media, digital applications, photolithography, mezzotinting |
| Suvadip Sinha Film Studies Advisory Committee Chair Associate Professor Asian & Middle Eastern Studies |
[email protected] | Indian cinema, modern South Asian literature and culture, global modernities, philosophy of the non-human |
| Mary Douglas Vavrus Professor Communication Studies |
[email protected] | Media studies; feminist theory; political economy of media |
| Christophe Wall-Romana Professor French & Italian |
[email protected] | French cinema, silent cinema, media history |
| Jamele Watkins Assistant Professor German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch |
[email protected] | 20th- and 21st-century German literature and history; Black diasporic studies; performance studies; feminist studies; German film |
| Margaret Werry Associate Professor Theatre Arts & Dance |
[email protected] | Cultural policy and governmentality—tourism, heritage, film; 19th-century Euro-American and British colonial popular theatre and entertainment culture, museum studies |
| Travis Workman Professor Asian & Middle Eastern Studies |
[email protected] | Korean and Japanese literature, film, and intellectual history; humanism and empire; critical theory; film melodrama; Cold War aesthetics; North Korea |
Moving Image, Media & Sound Emeriti Faculty
| Name | Contact | Specialty |
|---|---|---|
| Amy Kaminsky Professor Emeritus Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies |
[email protected] | Latin American film, Jewish writing and film in Argentina, feminist literary theory and criticism |
| Richard Leppert Regents Professor Emeritus Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature |
[email protected] | Art history, cultural studies, musicology |
| Richard McCormick Professor Emeritus German, Scandinavian & Dutch |
[email protected] | German film History, post-WWII German cinema, Weimar film and culture |
| Mara Pedelty Professor Emeritus Communication Studies |
[email protected] | Music as environmental communication, ethnographic research in the USA, El Salvador, and Mexico |
| Paula Rabinowitz Professor Emerita English |
[email protected] | American women, minority, and working-class writers; film, photography, media; visual cultures |