Affiliate Faculty

Name	Contact	Specialty
Hakim Abderrezak French & Italian	303D Folwell Hall 612-624-1361 abder002@umn.edu	20th- and 21st-century French and Francophone studies, visual studies
Shir Alon Asian & Middle Eastern Studies	230C Folwell Hall alon@umn.edu	Literary temporalities; theories of world literature; gender theory; postcolonial theory and decolonization; historiography of the modern Middle East
Osiris Aníbal Gómez Spanish & Portuguese Studies	214N Folwell Hall ogomezve@umn.edu	Contemporary Mexican literature and culture, Indigenous literature, translation studies, linguistic rights.
Sophia Beal Spanish & Portuguese Studies	206D Folwell Hall 612-625-2331 sfbeal@umn.edu	Brazilian literature and cultural studies, Lusophone-African Literature and cultural studies, urban studies, postcolonial studies
Jane M. Blocker Art History	346 Heller Hall 612-625-1549 block023@umn.edu	Contemporary art and theory
Emily Capper Art History	362 Heller Hall ercapper@umn.edu	Modern and contemporary art, social and intellectual history, film and media
Sinem Casale Art History	423 Heller Hall 612-301-1563 sinem@umn.edu	Islamic art
Juliette Cherbuliez French & Italian	314F/309B Folwell Hall 612-624-3473 cherbuli@umn.edu	17th-century literature and culture, theater studies
Palita Chunsaengchan Asian & Middle Eastern Studies	327E Folwell Hall palitac@umn.edu	Comparative Media Aesthetics; Film theory / historiography; Early Thai Cinema; "Media Modernity"; Cinema and Politics of Class, Production and Circulation; Contemporary Southeast Asian Cinema
Siobhan S. Craig English	320A Pillsbury Hall craig026@umn.edu	Italian and German cinema; literary, cultural, film, feminist, and queer theory
Jigna Desai Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies	410 Ford Hall 612-624-0363 desai003@umn.edu	Asian American literature and media, feminist theory, postcolonial studies, queer/sexuality studies, South Asian diasporas, critical disability studies, autism, neuronormativity
Lorenzo Fabbri French and Italian	309A FolH 612-624-0537 lfabbri@umn.edu	Contemporary Italian studies, film theory, postcolonial critique
Joseph Farag Asian & Middle Eastern Studies	220M Folwell Hall jrfarag@umn.edu	Palestinian literature and film; modern Arabic literature; Arab cultural studies; modern Arab history, politics, and society; Arab-American studies
Susanna F. Ferlito French & Italian	304G Folwell Hall 612-624-4151 ferli001@umn.edu	Modern Italian literature
Ana Paula Ferreira Spanish & Portuguese Studies	206C Folwell Hall 612-626-6909 apferrei@umn.edu	Decolonial Studies of Lusophone Literatures and Cultures; “Race” and Coloniality in the Global Portuguese and Spanish South; Women, Feminisms and Late Empire/Post empire
Megan Finch English	310B Pillsbury Hall finch128@umn.edu	20th- and 21st-century US and African-American Literature, black feminism, queer theory, dystopian fiction, afropessimism, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison
Ramon Fonkoué French & Italian	305A Folwell Hall 612-624-9393 fonko002@umn.edu
Njeri Githire African American & African Studies	848 Social Sciences 612-625-1687 ngithire@umn.edu	African artistic and cultural production, African diasporic studies
Sumanth S. Gopinath Music	114 Ferguson Hall 612-624-1829 sumanth@umn.edu	Music after WWII, avant-garde and experimental musics, music and politics, musical hermeneutics, popular music, sound studies, music and globalization
Ronald W. Greene Communication Studies	243 Ford Hall 612-624-9003 green179@umn.edu	Rhetorical studies, cultural studies/cultural policy, citizenship, philosophy of communication
Atilla Hallsby Communication Studies	263 Ford Hall 612-625-2985 hall1039@umn.edu	Rhetorical studies; post-structuralist theories of discourse; history of secrecy; privacy & transparency; critical surveillance & security studies
Jaime E. Hanneken Spanish & Portuguese Studies	214M Folwell Hall 612-625-1837 hanne045@umn.edu	Contemporary Latin American literature, culture Francophone literature, culture postcolonial studies, globalization, Latin American vanguardias, discursive appropriations of Paris in Caribbean, Latin American, and African contexts, uses and limitation of metropolitan literary, cultural theory in peripheral contexts
George L. Henderson Geography, Environment & Society	548 Social Sciences Building 612-625-4085 hende057@umn.edu	Marxism, post-capitalist politics, value theory of labor, Marxist cultural critique
Karen Ho Anthropology	395 Herbert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs 612-626-1313 karenho@umn.edu	Cultural studies of finance capital, finance, globalization, and capitalism, ethnography, feminist studies, political economy, United States, comparative race and ethnicity
Alexander Jabbari Asian & Middle Eastern Studies
Mari Jarris German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch	320E Folwell Hall mjarris@umn.edu	19th- and 20th-Century German and Russian Literature, Feminist and Queer Theory, Marxist and Socialist Theories and Movements, Utopianism
Michal Kobialka Theater & Dance	520C Rarig Center 612-625-0048 kobia001@umn.edu
Katerina Korola German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch	328F Folwell Hall 612-626-1620 kkorola@umn.edu	German Modernism, History of Photography, Early and Silent Cinema, Modern Art, and the Environmental Humanities
Dwight K Lewis, Jr. Assistant Professor	817 Heller Hall 612-625-6563 lewi1715@umn.edu	History of early modern philosophy, philosophy of race, and Africana philosophy, with a focus on the philosophy of Anton Willhelm Amo (c.1700-c.1750)
Nancy Luxon Political Science	1350 Social Sciences Building 612-625-7982 luxon@umn.edu	Contemporary political & social theory, French political thought
Christine L. Marran Asian & Middle Eastern Studies	327C Folwell Hall marran@umn.edu	Japanese popular culture from the 1870s to the present; Japanese literature; Early Meiji writing, especially newspapers and gesaku literature; Gender, sexuality, and identity in print and film culture; Ethics and the animal; Japanese and Asian film
Jason McGrath Asian & Middle Eastern Studies	225 Folwell Hall jmcgrath@umn.edu	Chinese and international cinemas; modern and contemporary Chinese literature and culture; realism in fiction, film, and theory; issues of convention and intertextuality in film theory; art and the nation; Chinese and Western Marxism
Stuart McLean Anthropology	612-624-8944 mclea070@umn.edu 374 Hubert H. Humphrey Center	Anthropology of modernity, social and cultural theory, historical anthropology, Ireland, European Union
Ellen Messer-Davidow English	110H Pillsbury Hall 612-625-2071 emd@umn.edu	Cultural and social theory; 20th century American social movements, policy, and law
Nathaniel Mills English	310G Pillsbury Hall 612-625-8444 mills175@umn.edu	20th-century US and African American literature; Ralph Ellison; literature and culture of the Great Depression; the Literary Left and Communism in the US; critical theory
Leslie C. Morris German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch	327A Folwell Hall 612-624-4047 morri074@umn.edu	German Jewish studies; Holocaust & memory studies; 20th- & 21st-century German and Austrian literature; comparative literature & literary theory; experimental poetry; psychoanalysis; medical humanities
Robert Nichols Political Science	1431 Social Sciences Building 612-624-2389 rbnichol@umn.edu	Modern political theory, indigeneity & settler colonialism, imperialism in political thought
Yuichiro Onishi African American & African Studies	874 Social Sciences 612-625-0513 ohni0001@umn.edu	African American history, Asian American studies, African diaspora studies
Sonali Pahwa Theater & Dance	550A Rarig Center 612-301-3917 pahwa007@umn.edu
Elliott Powell American Studies	203 Scott Hall 612-626-8515 ehpowell@umn.edu	American popular music and culture, critical race theory and comparative ethnic studies, feminist and queer studies, African American and Asian American studies, music and politics, music and globalization, jazz, hip hop, sound studies
Matt Rahaim Music	170 Ferguson Hall 612-465-9248 mrahaim@umn.edu	Indian music, Asian literatures, cultures and media, religious studies, cultural studies and comparative literature
Matthias Rothe German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch	328G Folwell Hall 612-625-9034 mrothe@umn.edu	18th-century political philosophy; philosophical and literary presentability of economic practices; Brechtian and contemporary theater
Jennifer Row Associate Professor	304D Folwell Hall 612-624-0537 jjrow@umn.edu	Early modern theater and dance studies, queer and feminist theory, disability studies, history of sexuality
Nida Sajid Asian & Middle Eastern Studies	231D Folwell Hall nsajid@umn.edu	South Asian Literature (Hindi-Urdu); Muslim Cultures of South Asia; Intellectual History and Paracolonial Networks; Global Eighteenth Century; Human Rights and Transnationalism; Gender, Caste and Religion in South Asia; Material Culture and Dress Studies
Jani Scandura English	310D Pillsbury Hall 612-625-9017 jani@umn.edu	Cultural studies and critical theory; 20th century North American literatures, film, mass culture
JB Shank History	922 Heller Hall 612-624-7323 jbshank@umn.edu	Early Modern Europe, France, European Intellectual, and History of Science
Anna Lise Seastrand Art History	417 Heller Hall 612-625-6384 seast003@umn.edu	South Asian art
Sima Shakhsari Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies	428 Ford Hall 612-301-1720 sshakhsa@umn.edu
Suvadip Sinha Asian & Middle Eastern Studies	228D Folwell Hall ssinha@umn.edu	South Asian cinema and literature; global modernities; nationalism; post-colonial theory and literature; philosophy of non-human; animality
Ajay Skaria History	924 Heller Hall skari002@umn.edu	South Asia and Environmental History
Katherine Solomonson Architecture	151K Rapson Hall 612-624-5565 solom003@umn.edu	Architecture and social relations
Karen-Sue Taussig Anthropology	612-625-3366 taussig@umn.edu 395 Hubert H. Humphrey Center	Medical anthropology, social and cultural implications of genetic testing, new reproductive technologies, cloning and stem cell research, genetics, eugenics, anthropology of science, biotechnology
Mary Douglas Vavrus Communication Studies	237 Ford Hall 612-624-5515 vavru001@umn.edu	Media studies; feminist theory; political economy of media
Christophe Wall-Romana French and Italian	303E Folwell Hall 612-626-8016 wallr007@umn.edu	French Modernism, poetry, theory, and film studies
Jamele Watkins German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch	327C Folwell Hall 612-625-4898 watkinsj@umn.edu	20th- and 21st-century German literature and history; Black diasporic studies; performance studies; feminist studies; German film
Margaret Werry Theater & Dance	550D Rarig Center 612-625-6783 werry001@umn.edu
Emily Winderman Communication Studies	257 Ford Hall 612-626-7713 ewinderm@umn.edu	Rhetoric of health and medicine; reproductive health; public emotion
Travis Workman Asian & Middle Eastern Studies	220H Folwell Hall tworkman@umn.edu	Korean literature, film, and intellectual history; state violence and historical memory; melodrama; nationalism; humanism and its critiques