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Faculty

These faculty teach courses related to Critical Theory. Links direct you to profile pages in their home department.

Steering Committee Faculty

David Chioni Moore
  • David Chioni Moore
  • Director of Critical Theory
    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.
  • 651-696-6242
Rothin Datta
  • Rothin Datta
  • Assistant Professor of Political Science
  • Political theory; racial capitalism; value-form theory; non-western political thought; history of economic thought
Erik Davis
  • Erik Davis
  • Professor of Religious Studies
  • current focus: collective and ritual creativity associated with social protest movements in urban Cambodia and Southeast Asia.
  • 651-696-6152
A. Kiarina Kordela
  • A. Kiarina Kordela
  • Professor and Chair of German Studies
  • Focuses on philosophy, intellectual history, critical political economy, psychoanalysis, comparative literature, political theory, film theory, and biopolitics
  • 651-696-6524
Joanna Inglot
  • Joanna Inglot
  • Edith M. Kelso Associate Professor of Art History
  • Focuses on modern and contemporary art, particularly in Europe and the United States
  • 651-696-6657
David Martyn
  • David Martyn
  • Professor of German and Russian Studies
  • Focuses on comparative literature, literary theory, culture from the 18th century to the present, philosophy, and literature written in German by “foreign”-language authors
  • 651-696-6547
Khaldoun Samman
  • Khaldoun Samman
  • Professor of Sociology
  • Focuses on world historical-comparative and urban sociology, globalization, sociology of religion, and modes of identities in the Middle East
  • 651-696-6845

Faculty

Morgan Adamson
  • Morgan Adamson
  • Professor and Chair of Media and Cultural Studies
  • Focuses on film and media theory, documentary and avant-garde cinema, critical theory and cultural studies, film and video production, and critical political economy
  • 651-696-6340
Karin Aguilar-San Juan
Andrew Billing
  • Andrew Billing
  • Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies
  • Focuses on 18th-century French literature, Enlightenment political and moral philosophy, colonialism, and critical theory
  • 651-696-6306
Ernesto Capello
  • Ernesto Capello
  • Professor of History and Latin American Studies
  • Andes, cultural history, art and architecture, transnationalism, cartography, transhemispheric imaginaries, urban history, colonial narratives and nostalgia, and Amazonia
  • Old Main 302, 651-696-6772
Julia Chadaga
  • Julia Chadaga
  • Associate Professor of Russian Studies
  • Specializes in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russian literature and culture
  • 651-696-6587
Olga González
  • Olga González
  • Professor of Anthropology
  • Cultural anthropology, memory and secrecy, truth and reconciliation, violence and subjectivity, Latin America
  • 651-696-6589
Michael Griffin
  • Michael Griffin
  • Associate Professor (NTT) of Media and Cultural Studies
  • Focuses on issues of representation in media, film and journalism. Publications address representation in visual journalism and documentary, and media treatments of social identity, community, environmental issues, and war and conflict.
  • 612-998-3512
Duchess Harris
  • Duchess Harris
  • Professor of American Studies and History Department Chair
  • Focuses on 20th-century African American political history and civil rights
  • 651-696-6478
Sheharyar Imran
Alix Johnson
  • Alix Johnson
  • Assistant Professor of International Studies
  • Digital infrastructure and information technology; spatial politics; surveillance; empire; ethnography
  • 651-696-6913
John Kim
  • John Kim
  • Associate Professor of Media and Cultural Studies
  • Is a theorist and practitioner of new media, who has published widely and created interactive installations and projects at museums and galleries around the world.
  • 651-696-6788
Mark Mazullo
Ross Shields
  • Ross Shields
  • Visiting Assistant Professor of German Studies
  • Literature, philosophy, critical theory, the history of science, environmental humanities
Joëlle Vitiello
  • Joëlle Vitiello
  • Professor of French and Francophone Studies
  • Focuses on 20th-21st-century French and francophone literature and culture; Haitian literature and culture; French and Francophone Cinema; Postcolonial identities; Immigration; Violence in France and the francophone world.
  • 651-696-6412

Emeritus Faculty

David L. Blaney
Joy Laine
  • Joy Laine
  • Adjunct Professor of Philosophy
  • Focuses on the philosophy of mind and language in the context of both Western and Indian philosophical traditions
  • 651-696-6353
Diane Michelfelder
Sonita Sarker
  • Sonita Sarker
  • Professor of 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.
  • 651-696-6316