Faculty
These faculty teach courses related to Critical Theory. Links direct you to profile pages in their home department.
- David Chioni Moore
- Director, Critical Theory; Associate Professor, 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.
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- 651-696-6242
- Morgan Adamson
- Associate Professor and Chair
- Focuses on film and media theory, documentary and avant-garde cinema, critical theory and cultural studies, film and video production, and critical political economy
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- 651-696-6340
- Karín Aguilar-San Juan
- Professor of American Studies, Department Chair
- Focuses on Vietnam antiwar movement and critical prison studies
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- 651-696-6148
- Andrew Billing
- Associate Professor
- Focuses on 18th-century French literature, Enlightenment political and moral philosophy, colonialism, and critical theory
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- 651-696-6306
- David L. Blaney
- G. Theodore Mitau Professor of Political Science (Emeritus)
- Global political economy, international political theory
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- 651-696-6020
- 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
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- 651-696-6772
- Julia Chadaga
- Associate Professor and Chair of Russian Studies
- Specializes in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russian literature and culture
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- 651-696-6587
- Erik Davis
- Professor, Religious Studies
- Current focus: collective and ritual creativity associated with social protest movements in urban Cambodia and Southeast Asia
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- 651-696-6152
- Olga González
- Associate Professor, Anthropology; Latin American Studies Program
- Cultural anthropology, memory and secrecy, truth and reconciliation, violence and subjectivity, Latin America
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- 651-696-6589
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- 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.
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- 612-998-3512
- Duchess Harris
- Professor of American Studies
- Focuses on 20th-century African American political history and civil rights
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- 651-696-6478
- William Hart
- Chair, Margaret W. Harmon Professor, Religious Studies
- Religion, Ethics, Politics
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- 651-696-6596
- Joanna Inglot
- Edith M. Kelso Associate Professor, Art History
- Expert in modern and contemporary art, with a focus on feminist art and art in former Eastern Europe.
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- 651-696-6657
- Alix Johnson
- Assistant Professor of International Studies
- Digital infrastructure and information technology; spatial politics; surveillance; empire; ethnography
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- 651-696-6913
- John Kim
- Associate Professor (On sabbatical 22-23)
- 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.
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- 651-696-6788
- A. Kiarina Kordela
- Professor and Chair of German Studies
- Focuses on critical theory, philosophy, literature and literary theory, intellectual history, critical political economy, psychoanalysis, political theory, film theory, analysis of ideology, and biopolitics
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- 651-696-6524
- Andrew Latham
- Professor of Political Science
- International relations; regional conflict and security; foreign policy; political thought
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- 651-696-6549
- David Martyn
- Professor, 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
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- 651-696-6547
- Diane Michelfelder
- Professor of Philosophy
- 20th Century European philosophy, philosophy of technology and engineering, animal ethics.
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- 651-696-6197
- Mark Mazullo
- Professor (musicology and piano)
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- 651-696-6582
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- Michael Powers
- Visiting Assistant Professor, German Studies
- Critical and literary theory; environmental humanities; visual and media studies; intersections of philosophy, politics, and art
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- 651-696-6528
- 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
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- 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.
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- 651-696-6316
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- Brad Stiffler
- Assistant Professor (NTT)
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- 651-696-6730
- Joëlle Vitiello
- Professor and Chair
- 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.
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- 651-696-6412