Faculty

Regular Faculty 

Name Contact Information Specialty
Hakim Abderrezak
Associate Professor
Director of Graduate Studies
303D Folwell Hall
612-624-1361
abder002@umn.edu
20th- and 21st-century French and Francophone studies, visual studies
Bruno Chaouat
Professor
309A Folwell Hall
612-624-9761
chaou001@umn.edu
19th- and 20th-century French literature and thought 
314F/309B Folwell Hall
612-624-3473
cherbuli@umn.edu
17th-century literature and culture, theater studies 
Lorenzo Fabbri
Associate Professor
305C Folwell Hall
lfabbri@umn.edu
Contemporary Italian studies, film theory, postcolonial critique
Susanna Ferlito
Associate Professor
304G Folwell Hall
612-624-4151
ferli001@umn.edu
Modern Italian literature
Ramon Fonkoué
Associate Professor
305A Folwell Hall
612-624-9393
fonko002@umn.edu
French language, francophone literatures (West African and French Caribbean) and cinema
Magdala Lissa Jeudy
Assistant Professor
303F Folwell Hall
612-624-5807
mjeudy@umn.edu
 
Kate Paesani
Associate Professor
303E Folwell Hall
kpaesani@umn.edu
 
Applied linguistics, multiliteracies pedagogy, language teacher development
Susan Noakes
Professor
Department Chair
305D Folwell Hall
612-624-0076
noake001@umn.edu
Late medieval and early Renaissance, French and Italian literature and culture; Global Middle Ages
Ioana Vartolomei Pribiag
Assistant Professor
304E Folwell Hall
612-624-1074
ivartolo@umn.edu
Francophone literature and film, postcolonial studies, politics of aesthetics
Associate Professor
304D Folwell Hall
612-624-0537
Early modern theater and dance studies, queer and feminist theory, disability studies, history of sexuality
 
303E Folwell Hall
612-626-8016
wallr007@umn.edu
 
French Modernism, poetry, theory, and film studies

Teaching Faculty & Staff

French

Name
Contact
Specialty
Senior Lecturer
Faculty Coordinator, College in the Schools 
304B Folwell Hall
612-624-9503
belat001@umn.edu
19th- and 20th-century French literature and thought; philosophical and linguistic approaches to literature; art history
Marina Calas
Lecturer
Coordinator, Intermediate French
314L Folwell Hall
612-624-8894
mcalas@umn.edu
Second language acquisition and pedagogy; French and Francophone literature
Lecturer
Director of Language Instruction, French
314K Folwell Hall
Second language acquisition; multiliteracies and genre pedagogies; social justice in language education; teacher development
Ashlie Henery
Lecturer
Coordinator, Beginning French
314G Folwell Hall
ahenery@umn.edu
French language
Lise Hoy
Lecturer
303A Folwell Hall
hoyxx002@umn.edu
French language
Patricia Mougel
Senior Lecturer
303C Folwell Hall
612-624-1074
mouge001@umn.edu
Second language acquisition and pedagogy, contemporary French business and society
Anne Thompson
Teaching Specialist
314C Folwell Hall
thom2626@umn.edu
French language
Janel Toussaint  Teaching Specialist 

304B Folwell Hall
612-624-9732

 
French language
Rick Treece
Senior Lecturer
314B Folwell Hall
612-624-4308
treece@umn.edu
Language teaching with technology, Organisation internationale de la francophonie
Trina Whitaker
Senior Teaching Specialist
Director of Undergraduate Studies
304F Folwell Hall
612-624-1590
whita006@umn.edu
Second language acquisition and pedagogy, teacher training, teaching language through culture

Italian 

Name Contact Specialty
Director of Language Instruction, Italian
First Year Coordinator 
Lecturer             
314J Folwell Hall
612-624-0239
ffabbri@umn.edu
Italian, Second language acquisition, Language Program Administration, Curriculum Development 
Monica Barbieri
Senior Teaching Specialist
314C Folwell Hall
612-624-9772
barbi001@umn.edu
Second language acquisition
Cristina Cocchi
Senior Teaching Specialist
314A Folwell Hall
612-624-9770
cocch005@umn.edu
Second language acquisition
Kathleen Rider                           
Senior Teaching Specialist
Coordinator, Intermediate Italian
314H Folwell Hall
ride0002@umn.edu

Second language acquisition, 20th Century Italian Architecture, Gentrification

 

Affiliate Faculty

Affiliate faculty have homes in other departments, but hold appointments in our Graduate French & Italian programs.

Name Contact Specialty
Tammy Berberi
Associate Professor
French and Francophone Studies
University of Minnesota, Morris
Humanities 114
University of Minnesota, Morris
berberit@morris.umn.edu
Disability and aesthetics; Tristan Corbière; 19th-century French literature; disability studies; inclusion in higher education
Sarah Buchanan
Associate Professor
French and Francophone Studies
Francophone Studies; West African Cinema and Literature; Maghrebian cinema and literature, Caribbean Literature; French Cinema
Giancarlo Casale
Associate Professor
History
1237 Heller Hall
612-626-4265
casale@umn.edu
Ottoman Empire, pre-modern and early modern world history
Siobhan Craig
Associate Professor
English
50H Lind Hall
612-625-6087
craig026@umn.edu
Fascist-era cinema in Italy and Germany, Italian neorealism, new German cinema
Gabriela Ilnitchi Currie
Associate Professor
Musicology
100 Ferguson Hall
612-624-0261
ilnit001@umn.edu
Medieval music theory, music iconography, music and culture of the Balkan Peninsula and Western/Central Asia
Amanda Dalola
Director
Language Center
110B Jones Hall

27 Pleasant Street SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Sociophonetics, Sociolinguistics, Phonetics, Phonology, Social Media in the L2 classroom, Tweetmining
Michael Gaudio
Professor
Art History
364 Heller Hall
612-624-0847
gaudio@umn.edu
Early modern Atlantic world, print history, landscape, art and religion, art and sensory perception, historiography
Njeri Githire
Associate Professor
African American & African Studies
848 Social Sciences Building
612-625-1687
ngithire@umn.edu
African literary and cultural production, literature of the African diaspora, women's writings and feminist theory, postcolonial theory and criticism, francophone studies
Ron Greene
Professor
Communication Studies
225 Ford Hall
612-624-2808
green179@umn.edu
Political communication, legal and popular perspectives on free speech, film exhibition, history of debates on population control
Jaime Hanneken
Associate Professor
Spanish & Portuguese Studies
214N Folwell Hall
612-626-2540
hanne045@umn.edu
19th- and 20th-century Latin American literature, postcolonial approaches to literature and culture, francophone literature, critical theory
Kelley Harness
Associate Professor
School of Music
168 Ferguson Hall
612-624-0298
harne005@umn.edu
Musicology and ethnomusicology
Michael Lower
Professor
History
1220 Heller Hall
612-626-1796
mlower@umn.edu
Crusades, medieval Mediterranean and Christian/Muslim relations
Patricia Lorcin
Professor
History
1020 Heller Hall
612-626-4269
plorcin@umn.edu
Modern France, western imperialism, colonialism, postcolonial studies
Leslie Morris
Professor
German, Scandinavian & Dutch
327A Folwell Hall
612-624-4047
morri074@umn.edu
20th- and 21st-century German and Austrian literature and poetry, Jewish studies
Steven Ostrow
Professor
Art History
338A Heller Hall
612-624-4500
ostro133@umn.edu
17th-century Roman art, Italian baroque art theory, Caravaggio
Kathryn Reyerson
Professor
History
1120 Heller Hall
612-624-8569
reyer001@umn.edu
Medieval Europe; the Mediterranean and France; social, economic, legal, and world history
J.B. Shank
Professor
History
922 Heller Hall
612-624-7323
jbshank@umn.edu
Enlightenment science and Newtonianism, European intellectual history, Renaissance science and culture
Shaden Tageldin
Associate Professor
Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature
235 Nicholson Hall
612-625-8445
tageldin@umn.edu
19th- and 20th-century literatures in English, Arabic, and French; trans-African and trans-Asian studies; postcolonial studies; histories and ideologies of comparative literature
Igor Tchoukarine
Assistant Professor
CLA Austrian Studies
314 Social Sciences
612-624-7321
Modern Europe; Central and Southeastern Europe; Travel and Tourism
John Watkins
Professor
English
312 Lind Hall
612-624-8879
watki005@umn.edu
Historiography, sovereignty and queenship, medieval and early modern diplomacy

Emeriti Faculty

Name Specialty
F.R.P. Akehurst Medieval French and Occitan language and literature, medieval French law
Daniel Brewer Ancien Régime literature and culture, critical theory
Mária Minich Brewer 20th-century French literature, culture, and theatre
Peter Lock 19th-century French literature
Betsy Kerr French linguistics, second language acquisition
Maria Paganini 20th-century French prose
Judith Preckshot 20th-century French studies and Francophone literature
Peter Robinson 19th-century French poetry and culture
Eileen Sivert 19th-century French literature and Québecois studies