Bat of MInerva - Faculty Interviews
An A to Z listing of all University of Minnesota faculty who have been interviewed on the Bat of Minerva.
April 10, 2008 - David Beard of the Reconfiguring Rhetorical Studies Collaborative is interested in issues of communication and critical theory. Beard is a professor in the Department of Writing Studies at UMN Duluth.
November, 2007 - Dan Burk is the Oppenheimer, Wolff & Donnelly Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota and a prominent authority on the law of intellectual property, specializing in the areas of cyberlaw and biotechnology.
May, 2008 - David Chang is a professor of History at the University of Minnesota where he studies race, nationhood, and Native American culture.
April, 2009 - Juliette Cherbuliez is a professor of French at the University of Minnesota. Her research is on premodern literature and culture.
March, 2007 - Michael Cherlin is a Professor of Theory and Composition in the School of Music at the University of Minnesota.
October 12, 2008 - Two Scholars: History and Environmental Ethics - William Cunningham is an environmental scientist and author. He is Professor Emeritus of Genetics, Cell Biology and Development at the University of Minnesota. He is particularly interested in conservation biology and environmental issues.
November 9, 2008 - A lifetime of interest in words and wordplay - Maria Damon is a professor of English at the University of Minnesota.
December, 2007 - Jan Estep is a photographer and a professor of Art at the University of Minnesota.
March, 2007 - Sara Evans is a McKnight Distinguished University Professor of History at the University of Minnesota, where she specializes in gender analysis, family history, and American women's history.
August, 2007 - Michael Gaudio is a professor of Art History at the University of Minnesota and a founding member of the Theorizing Early Modern Studies Collaborative.
February, 2009 - Douglas Geers is a composer, a professor of Music Composition and Director of the STRUM Electronic Music Studios at the School of Music of the University of Minnesota (Twin Cities), where he founded and directs the Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Arts.
April 10, 2008 - Mark Huglen of the Reconfiguring Rhetorical Studies Collaborative is interested in issues of communication and critical theory. Huglen is a professor of Communication at UMN Crookston.
October 30, 2009 - Ellen Kennedy is the outreach coordinator and interim director at the Center of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the University of Minnesota.
September, 2006 - Lynn Lukkas is an Associate Professor in the Department of Art and is a member of the Program in Collaborative Arts at the University of Minnesota.
December, 2006 - Christine Marran is a professor of Asian Languages and Literatures at the University of Minnesota, where she specializes in modern Japanese culture and literature with an emphasis on gender, sexuality, and identity in print and film culture.
February, 2007 - Guerino Mazzola is a professor of Music and a member of the Program in Collaborative Arts at the University of Minnesota.
January 4, 2009 - Science in Japan in the War Years - Hiromi Mizuno is a professor of History at the University of Minnesota.
January 18 and 25, 2009 - The Meaning of Calculus in the 17th Century - J.B. Shank is a professor of history at the University of MInnesota and one of the organizers of the Theorizing Early Modern Studies Collaborative.
October 26 and November 2, 2008 - Controversies about Mathematical Knowledge and Leibniz and Newton: Continuity and Controversy - J.B. Shank is a professor of history at the University of MInnesota and one of the organizers of the Theorizing Early Modern Studies Collaborative.
February, 2007 - Susannah L. Smith is a historian specializing in Russia and modern Europe at the University of Minnesota and the managing director of the Institute for Advanced Study. She is also a member of Sumunar, a Twin Cities-based Indonesian music and dance ensemble.
November, 2006 - Madelon Sprengnether is a Regents Professor in the department of English at the University of Minnesota. She is a poet and feminist scholar, specializing in Freud, psychoanalytic criticism and women writers.
February, 2009 - Andréa Stanislav is a professor of Art at the University of Minnesota and practices a multimedia approach to art making, inspired by the language of film, architecture, and pop culture.
May, 2006 - Ann Waltner is a professor in both the Department of History and the Department of Asian Languages and Literatures and she is also the director of the Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Minnesota.