Media and Cultural Studies faculty include media and film studies professors assigned to the department as well as professors in disciplines in the divisions of Humanities and Social Sciences and other interdisciplinary departments who teach cultural studies, film studies, humanities, and media studies. Faculty are engaged in active research programs that may offer opportunities for student assistance or collaboration.

MCS Faculty

• Leola Johnson
  Associate Professor and Chair
  johnsonl1@macalester.edu
  651-696-6725
• Michael Griffin
  Visiting Assistant Professor
  mgriffi1@macalester.edu
  651-696-6730
• John Kim
  Assistant Professor
  jkim5@macalester.edu
  651-696-6788
• Howard Sinker
  Visiting Instructor Media and Cultural Studies
  sinker@macalester.edu
  651-696-6732
• Genevieve Yue
  CFD Postdoctoral Fellow
  gyue@macalester.edu
  651-696-6639
• Clay Steinman
  Professor
  steinman@macalester.edu
  651-696-6726
• Jay Gabler
  Visiting Assistant Professor
  jgabler@macalester.edu
  651-696-6340
• Anand Patwardhan
  HHH Visiting Professor
  apatward@macalester.edu
  651-696-6246
• Allyson Shaffer
  Visiting Assistant Professor
  ashaffer@macalester.edu
  651-696-6340
• Bradley Stiffler
  Visiting Instructor
  bstiffler@macalester.edu
  651-696-6340

MCS Staff

• Martha LeDuc
  Administrative Assistant
  mleduc@macalester.edu
  651-696-6424

Contributing Faculty

• Anne Carayon
  Emeritus Faculty Member
  carayon@macalester.edu
  651-696-6446
• A. Kiarina Kordela
  Professor, German and Russian Studies
  kordela@macalester.edu
  651-696-6524
• David Martyn
  Professor, German and Russian Studies
  martyn@macalester.edu
  651-696-6547
• David Chioni Moore
  Associate Professor of International Studies and English
  Literary interactions in the Black Atlantic world, notably Africa, the Caribbean, and African America; post-colonial and/as the post-Soviet; comparative literature; cultural theory; globalization.
  mooredc@macalester.edu
  651-696-6242
• J. Andrew Overman
  Harry M. Drake Distinguished Professor in the Humanities and Fine Arts and Chair
  overman@macalester.edu
  651-696-6375
• Jane Rhodes
  Professor of American Studies
  rhodes@macalester.edu
  651-696-6431
• Khaldoun Samman
  Associate Professor
  samman@macalester.edu
  651-696-6845
• Sonita Sarker
  Professor Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and English
  Feminist and literary theories; cultural studies of globalization as it intersects with nationalism, democracy, and imperialism; "minoritized" literatures, with a transnational comparative basis in Western Europe and Asia.
  sarker@macalester.edu
  651-696-6316
• Linda Schulte-Sasse
  DeWitt Professor and Chair of German Studies
  schultesasse@macalester.edu
  651-696-6401
• Beth Severy-Hoven
  Associate Professor of Classics
  severy@macalester.edu
  651-696-6721
• Joëlle Vitiello
  Associate Professor French and Francophone Studies
  vitiello@macalester.edu
  651-696-6412
• James Von Geldern
  Professor International Studies and German and Russian Studies
  Russian and Soviet popular culture and cultural history; comparative studies in revolutions and commemoration; international law and legal frameworks; cultural studies.
  vongeldern@macalester.edu
  651-696-6568
• Chris Wells
  Associate Professor of Environmental Studies
  Environmental history
  wells@macalester.edu
  651-696-6803