Faculty
Mike Fitzgerald
Holland Hall 532
Phone 507-786-3162
Office Hours: M 2-3, Tu 11:30-12:30, Th 12:30-1:30
fitz@stolaf.edu
David Hagedorn
(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.
Joseph Mbele
(English, post-Colonial and Third World literature)
Joan Hepburn
(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.
Scott Homler
(French)
Hervé Pensec
(French)
Mary Titus
(English, American literature)

