Faculty
Joan Hepburn heburn@stolaf.edu
(English, African American Literature, & Drama)
Joan E. Hepburn, English Department, graduated at Brown University, and taught in
an array of institutions, including Fordham University. She has been a member of the
English Department of St. Olaf since 1987. She has taught Africa and the Americas
and American Racial and Multicultural Literature. Off campus, she has led Theater
Interims to South Africa and to New York, Contemporary Drama and West African
Drama in English being her fields of study.
Mike Fitzgerald fitz@stolaf.edu
Holland Hall 532
Phone 507-786-3162
Sabbatical 2011-12
David Hagedorn hagedord@stolaf.edu
(Music)
David Hagedorn Music Department, he teaches percussion, jazz studies,and world music. He studied African drumming with Abraham Adzenyah at the Banff Centre for Fine Arts in Canada, was a charter member of the Lila Muni gamelan at the Eastman School of Music, and studied Cuban hand drumming and Brazilian samba with Michael Spiro and Dane Richeson at Bjorklunden in Door County Wisconsin.
He has recorded with the George Russell Living Time Orchestra on Blue Note Recordings, jazz singer Debbie Duncan on Igmod Recordings, and also with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra on Teldec Recordings. Hagedorn regularly performs in the Twin Cities with jazz groups such as the Phil Hey quartet, Apex, Meantime, Low Blows, and the JazzMn Orchestra.
Abdulai Iddrisu
Joseph Mbele
(English, post-Colonial and Third World literature)
Mary Titus
(English, American literature)
Mary Titus is Professor of English and Director of American Studies. Currently, she is interested in collecting and has enjoyed giving papers at the American Culture Association Convention on such topics as the House on the Rock, junk drawers and other miscellaneous collections, and hoarding. In the past, her scholarship was primarily on 19th and early 20th century American literature, especially literature of the American South. She remains interested in the relationships between literary texts and popular culture and has published essays on such topics as slave narratives, food and race, and myths of Southern womanhood.
