Participating Faculty
Barbara Altmann, ProfessorDepartment of Romance Languages, French |
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| Education: | B.A. 1978, Alberta; M.A. 1982; Ph.D.1988, Toronto |
| Field of Interest: | Medieval studies; Old French philology; text editing, paleography, and codicology; medieval debate literature; late medieval narrative and lyric genres and their overlap; lyric theory; feminist theory |
| E-mail: | baltmann@uoregon.edu |
Susan Anderson, ProfessorDepartment of German and Scandinavian |
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| Education: | B.A., 1978, North Carolina, Asheville; M.A., 1981, Ph.D.,1985, North Carolina, Chapel Hill |
| Field of Interest: | Early 20th-century and contemporary German and Austrian literature and film; multiculturalism; gender; literary and cultural theory |
| E-mail: | susana@uoregon.edu |
Monique R. Balbuena, Associate ProfessorRobert Donald Clark Honors College |
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| Field of Interest: | Diaspora and Multilingualism, Poetics, Translation, Comparative Jewish, Latin American and Maghrebi literatures, Jewish languages, Ladino Literature |
| E-mail: | balbuena@uoregon.edu |
P. Lowell Bowditch, Associate ProfessorDepartment of Classics |
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| Education: | B.A. 1984, California, Berkeley; M.A. 1989, Ph.D. 1992, Brown |
| Field of Interest: | Ancient literary patronage; Greek and Roman lyric; classical influences on twentieth-century poetry; anthropological theory |
| E-mail: | bowditch@uoregon.edu |
Carl Bybee, Associate ProfessorSchool of Journalism and Communication |
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| Education: | B.A.1973; M.A. 1976; Ph.D. 1978, University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| Field of Interest: | Mass media and society, communication theory and criticism, and political communication with a focus on the relationship between journalism as an institution and democratic government |
| E-mail: | bybee@uoregon.edu |
Joyce Cheng, Assistant ProfessorDepartment of Art History |
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| Education: | Ph.D. 2009, University of Chicago |
| Field of Interest: | Artistic practices and theories of the European avant-garde in the interwar period |
| E-mail: | joycec@uoregon.edu |
Suzanne Clark, ProfessorDepartment of English |
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| Education: | 1961 B.A. UO, French; M.A. 1965, UO, French; Ph.D. 1980, UC, Irvine, English |
| Field of Interest: | Publications include Cold Warriors: The Crisis of Manliness and the Rhetoric of the West, Southern Illinois University Press, 2000; Sentimental Modernism: Women Writers and the Revolution of the Word, Indiana University Press, 1991 ; articles on Zora Neale Hurston, Hemingway, Millay, Boyle, Dillard, Malamud, LeGuin, Sandoz; essays on critical theory and rhetoric, including an interview with Julia Kristeva, argument, sentimental literacy, "Fight Club," rural schools, teaching. |
| E-mail: | sclark@uoregon.edu |
James Crosswhite, Associate ProfessorDepartment of English |
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| Education: | B.A., 1975, UC, Santa Cruz; Ph.D., 1987, UC, San Diego |
| Field of Interest: | Philosophy, rhetoric, nature writing, theories of wilderness and the wild |
| E-mail: | jcross@uoregon.edu |
Dianne Dugaw, ProfessorDepartment of English |
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| Education: | B.A. 1971, Portland; M.Mus. 1974, Colorado, Boulder; M.A. 1976, Ph.D. 1982, California, Los Angeles |
| Field of Interest: | Early modern British literature, music, and culture; Anglo-American popular and folk music; women's studies; historical study of gender and sexuality |
| E-mail: | dugaw@uoregon.edu |
Cecilia Enjuto Rangel, Assistant ProfessorDepartment of Romance Languages, Spanish and Latin American |
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| Education: | B.A. 1998, Universidad ed Puerto Rico, Río PIedras; M.A., Yale University, 2005; Ph.D. Yale University, 2005 |
| Field of Interest: | 19th and 20th century Spanish and Latin American Poetry; Transatlantic Studies; Comparative American Studies; Literature, Cinema and History, Feminist Theory |
| E-mail: | enjuto@uoregon.edu |
Maram Epstein, Associate ProfessorEast Asian Languages and Literatures |
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| Education: | B.A., 1983, M.A., 1987; Ph.D., 1992, Princeton |
| Field of Interest: | Ming-Qing vernacular fiction |
| E-mail: | maram@oregon.uoregon.edu |
Pedro García-Caro, Assistant ProfessorDepartment of Romance Languages, Spanish |
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| Education: | BA, 1996, University of Surrey; MA, 1997. University College London, University of London; PhD, 2004, King's College London, University of London |
| Field of Interest: | 19th, 20th, and 21st Century Latin American, American, and Spanish literatures |
| E-mail: | pgcaro@uoregon.edu |
Evlyn Gould, ProfessorHumanities; Department of Romance Languages, French |
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| Education: | B.A. 1975, UC, Irvine; M.A. 1977, Ph.D. 1983, UC, Berkeley |
| Field of Interest: | Nineteenth-century literature and culture; literature and the other arts (opera, dance, film); literature and psychoanalysis; Jewish issues; European studies |
| E-mail: | evgould@uoregon.edu |
Gantt Gurley, Assistant ProfessorDepartment of German and Scandinavian |
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| Education: | Ph.D., 2007, California, Berkeley |
| Field of Interest: | Scandinavian literature, Old Norse literature |
| E-mail: | gantt@uoregon.edu |
Michael Hames-García, ProfessorDepartment of Ethnic Studies |
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| Education: | Ph.D., 1998, Cornell University |
| Field of Interest: | 19th-, 20th-, and 21st-century U.S. Literature, especially African American and U.S. Latina/o; literary and cultural theory, especially cultural studies, queer theory, marxism, and decolonial thinking; prison literature and prison abolitionism |
| E-mail: | mhamesg@uoregon.edu |
Kathleen Rowe Karlyn, ProfessorDepartment of English |
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| Education: | B.A. 1969, Connecticut; M.L.A. 1973, Johns Hopkins; Ph.D. 1992, Oregon |
| Field of Interest: | Film history; film and television theory and criticism; feminist theory; cultural studies; narrative and genre |
| E-mail: | karlyn@uoregon.edu |
Linda Kintz, Professor (retired)Department of English |
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| Education: | B.A. 1967, Texas Tech; M.A. 1969, Southern Methodist; Ph.D. 1982, UO |
| Field of Interest: | Critical and psychoanalytic theory, performance theory; feminist theory; twentieth-century drama; semiotics; minority, ethnic, and postcolonial literatures; cultural studies and religion |
| E-mail: | lkintz@uoregon.edu |
Martin Klebes, Associate ProfessorDepartment of German and Scandinavian, German |
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| Education: | Ph.D. 2003, Northwestern University, Comparative Literary Studies |
| Field of Interest: | Relation between literature and philosophy (post-Enlightenment to the present, particularly German and French), contemporary American novel, OuLiPo |
| E-mail: | klebes@uoregon.edu |
David Leiwei Li, ProfessorDepartment of English |
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| Education: | B.A. 1982, Shanghai Foreign Languages Institute; M.A. 1986, Indiana University of Pennsylvania; Ph.D. 1991, Texas, Austin |
| Field of Interest: | Asian American literature; race, ethnicity, and multiculturalism; theories of modernity and globalization, Chinese cinema |
| E-mail: | davidlli@uoregon.edu |
Jeffrey Librett, ProfessorDepartment of German and Scandinavian |
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| Education: | B.A.,1979, Yale University; M.A.,1981, Columbia University; M.A., 1984, Ph.D., 1989, Cornell University |
| Field of Interest: | Enlightenment, counter-Enlightenment, Romanticism, Jewish studies, philosophy, literary and cultural theory, psychoanalysis |
| E-mail: | jlibrett@uoregon.edu |
Katharina Loew, Assistant ProfessorDepartment of German and Scandinavian and Cinema Studies |
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| Education: | Ph.D., 2011, University of Chicago |
| Field of Interest: | German silent and early sound film; silent film technology; émigré filmmakers in Hollywood; fantastic literature and film; German modernist theater; art and literature and theories of modernity and mass culture |
| E-mail: | kloew@uoregon.edu |
Enrique Lima, Assistant ProfessorDepartment of English |
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| Education: | Ph.D. Comparative Literature, 2007, Stanford University |
| Field of Interest: | Literature of the Americas; narrative theory and theory of the novel; American and Latin American Studies |
| E-mail: | elima@uoregon.edu |
Massimo Lollini, ProfessorDepartment of Romance Languages, Italian |
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| Education: | Laurea 1978, Bologna; Ph.D. 1992, Yale |
| Field of Interest: | Humanism and Posthumanism; Baroque and modern Italian literature; comparative modern literature from ethical and testimonial perspectives; Hypertext and Digital Culture |
| E-mail: | maxiloll@uoregon.edu |
John McCole, Associate ProfessorDepartment of History |
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| Education: | B.A. 1975, Brown; M.A. 1982, Ph.D. 1988, Boston |
| Field of Interest: | History of social thought and cultural criticism, particularly in Germany; critical theory; radical modernism and radical conservatism; European aestheticism; Georg Simmel |
| E-mail: | mccole@uoregon.edu |
Randall McGowen, ProfessorDepartment of History |
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| Education: | Ph.D. University of Illinois, 1979 |
| Field of Interest: | Research interest--early modern British legal history Teaching interests--early modern Britain, modern India |
| E-mail: | rmcgowen@uoregon.edu |
Karen McPherson, Associate ProfessorDepartment of Romance Languages, French |
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| Education: | B.A. 1970 UO; M.A. 1983, Ph.D. 1987, Yale |
| Field of Interest: | Francophone literatures, modern French novel, feminist theory; literary translation |
| E-mail: | ksmcpher@uoregon.edu |
Fabienne Moore, Associate ProfessorDepartment of Romance Languages, French |
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| Education: | Ph.D., Comparative Literature, New York University, 2001 Maîtrise, English, Université de Toulouse-Le Mirail, France,1989 |
| Field of Interest: | Prose poetry; European Enlightenment and counter-Enlightenment; the "querelle des anciens et modernes;" the Encyclopédie; the evolution of the novel; European romanticism; Chateaubriand; Staël; French cultural history; genre theory; translation (theory, history, practice) |
| E-mail: | fmoore@uoregon.edu |
Ibrahim Muhawi, Courtesy ProfessorDepartment of Comparative Literature |
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| Education: | Ph.D. 1969, University of California, Davis |
| Field of Interest: | Palestinian and Arabic literature and folklore and translation |
| E-mail: | muhawi@uoregon.edu |
Dorothee Ostmeier, ProfessorDepartment of German and Scandinavian |
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| Education: | Staatsexamen, 1984, M.A., 1985, Ruhr; Ph.D., 1993 Johns Hopkins. (2001) |
| Field of Interest: | 18th- and 20th-century literature, culture, philosophy |
| E-mail: | ostmeier@uoregon.edu |
Paul Peppis, Associate ProfessorDepartment of English |
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| Education: | B.A. 1984, Williams; M.A. 1987, Ph.D. 1993, Chicago |
| Field of Interest: | Twentieth-century literature; modernisms; avant-garde movements; literature and politics; literature and history; literature and science |
| E-mail: | ppeppis@uoregon.edu |
Amanda Powell, Senior InstructorDepartment of Romance Languages, Spanish |
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| Education: | B.A., 1977, Yale; M.A., 1983, Boston University. (1991) |
| Field of Interest: | 16th and 17th century Spanish and Colonial Latin American women writers; convent writings and lyrical texts; Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz. Literary translation. |
| E-mail: | apowell@uoregon.edu |
F. Regina Psaki, ProfessorDepartment of Romance Languages, Italian |
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| Education: | B.A. 1980, Dickinson College; M.A. 1986, Ph.D. 1989, Cornell |
| Field of Interest: | Comparative medieval literature; Italian and French lyric and romance; courtly and hybrid genres; medieval and modern misogyny; translation theory and practice; Dante and Boccaccio. |
| E-mail: | rpsaki@uoregon.edu |
Forrest "Tres" Pyle, Associate ProfessorDepartment of English |
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| Education: | Ph.D. English, University of Texas at Austin, 1988; M.A. University of Texas at Austin, 1983; B.A. University of Texas at Austin, 1980 |
| Field of Interest: | I am interested in the various forms and effects of this aesthetic radicalization in a strain of Romanticism that extends from Percy Shelley and Keats through Dickinson, Hopkins, and Dante Rossetti through Wilde. |
| E-mail: | trespyle@uoregon.edu |
Judith Raiskin, Associate ProfessorWomen's and Gender Studies |
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| Education: | B.A. 1979, UC, Berkeley; M.A. 1981, Chicago; Ph.D. 1989, Stanford |
| Field of Interest: | The construction of racial, sexual, and national identities, especially in the context of colonial and neocolonial politics, economics, and education. I teach LGBT studies and Queer theory. |
| E-mail: | raiskin@uoregon.edu |
Daniel Rosenberg, ProfessorRobert D. Clark Honors College, History |
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| Education: | B.A. 1988, Wesleyan University; M.A. 1991, Ph.D. 1996, UC, Berkeley |
| Field of Interest: | Intellectual and cultural history, eighteenth century to the present; French Enlightenment; time, language, media |
| E-mail: | dbr@uoregon.edu |
George Rowe, ProfessorDepartment of English |
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| Education: | B.A. 1969, Brandeis; M.A. 1971, Ph.D. 1973, Johns Hopkins |
| Field of Interest: | Renaissance Literature |
| E-mail: | growe@uoregon.edu |
Cheyney Ryan, ProfessorDepartment of Philosophy |
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| Field of Interest: | Aesthetics, analytical and political philosophy |
| E-mail: | cryan@uoreogn.edu |
Tze-Lan Sang, Associate ProfessorEast Asian Languages and Literatures (On leave 2010-11) |
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| Education: | B.A. 1988, National Taiwan University; M.A. 1990, State University of New York at Albany; Ph.D. 1996, UC, Berkeley |
| Field of Interest: | Qing and modern Chinese literature |
| E-mail: | sang@uoregon.edu |
Gordon Sayre, ProfessorDepartment of English |
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| Education: | A.B. 1988, Brown; Ph.D. 1993, SUNY, Buffalo |
| Field of Interest: | Colonial American literature; eighteenth-century literature of France, England, and America — especially the novel and other narrative forms; anthropology and literary theory; Native American literature; history of cartography and geography of America |
| E-mail: | gsayre@uoregon.edu |
John Schmor, Associate Professor, Dept. HeadDepartment of Theatre Arts |
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| Education: | Education: B.A. 1984, Willamette University; M.A. 1989, Ph.D. 1991, University of Oregon |
| Principle areas: | Performance theory and histories, Shakespeare, early 20th century avant-garde, aesthetics, actor training |
| E-mail: | jbschmor@uoregon.edu |
Steven Shankman, ProfessorDepartments of English & Classics |
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| Education: | B.A. 1969, Texas, Austin; B.A. 1971, M.A. 1976, Cambridge; Ph.D. 1977, Stanford |
| Field of Interest: | Classical traditions; verse translation; the eighteenth century; history of literary theory |
| E-mail: | shankman@uoregon.edu |
Carol Silverman, ProfessorDepartment of Anthropology (on leave 2010-11) |
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| Education: | B.A. 1972, CUNY-City College; M.A. 1974, Ph.D. 1979 University of Pennsylvania |
| Field of Interest: | Politics of culture; Balkan music; Roma (Gypsies); folklore; gender; human rights |
| E-mail: | csilverm@uoregon.edu |
Michael J. Stern, Associate ProfessorDepartment of German and Scandinavian, Scandinavian |
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| Education: | Ph.D. UC, Berkeley, 2000 |
| Field of Interest: | Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, 19th century Scandinavian Literature |
| E-mail: | mjstern@uoregon.edu |
Analisa Taylor, Associate ProfessorDepartment of Romance Languages, Spanish |
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| Education: | B.A., UO, 1992; Ph.D., Duke, 2002 |
| Field of Interest: | Mexican literary and social history |
| E-mail: | analisa@uoregon.edu |
Ted Toadvine, Associate ProfessorDepartment of Philosophy |
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| Education: | Ph.D., Philosophy, University of Memphis, 1996 |
| Field of Interest: | Specialization: 19th & 20th Century Continental Philosophy (especially Phenomenology and Post-Structuralism), Philosophy of Nature, Environmental Philosophy |
| E-mail: | toadvine@uoregon.edu |
Cynthia Tolentino, Associate ProfessorDepartment of English |
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| Education: | B.A. 1992, Hampshire College; M.A. 1993, Ph.D. 2001, Brown |
| Field of Interest: | Asian Pacific American literatures, postcolonial studies |
| E-mail: | ctol@uoregon.edu |
David Vazquez, Assistant ProfessorDepartments of English and Ethnic Studies |
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| Education: | PhD in English, UC, Santa Barbara, 2004 |
| Field of Interest: | Comparative Latina/o literatures, Chicana/o Studies, comparative ethnic literatures, cultural studies, critical theory, postcolonial studies |
| E-mail: | vazquez@uoregon.edu |
Alejandro Vallega, Assistant ProfessorDepartments of Philosophy |
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| Education: | Ph.D., Institut für Philosophie, Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria, 1999. Twentieth Century European Philosophy, Ancient, and Latin American Thought. M.A., Department of Philosophy, Boston University, Boston, MA., 1996. Continental Philosophy and History of Philosophy (Ancient). B.A., St. John's College, "Great Books Program," Annapolis, MD., 1993. B. A. in (Liberal Arts) Philosophy, Literature, and History of Mathematics. B.F.A. studies, Massachusetts College of Arts, Boston, MA., 1985-1989. Painting and Filmmaking. |
| Field of Interest: | Latin American Thought, Philosophy of Liberation, History of Latin American Philosophy. 20th Century and Contemporary European Philosophy. Ancient Greek Philosophy. Aesthetics, aesthetics and social-political thought. Theories of decoloniality. Race theory. Philosophy of language in Continental Philosophy and Hermeneutics. |
| E-mail: | avallega@uoregon.edu |
Elizabeth Wheeler, Associate ProfessorDepartment of English |
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| Education: | A.B. 1981, Bowdoin College; M.A. 1988, CUNY Graduate Center; Ph.D. 1996, UC, Berkeley |
| Field of Interest: | Twentieth-century and contemporary literatures of the United States, the Caribbean, and Germany; cultural, urban, and disability studies; graphic novels and children's literature; community literacy. |
| E-mail: | ewheeler@uoregon.edu |
Daniel Wojcik, Associate ProfessorDepartment of English, Folklore Studies |
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| Education: | B.A. 1978, UC, Santa Barbara; M.A. 1986, Ph.D. 1992, California, Los Angeles |
| Field of Interest: | Folklore studies; cultural theory; millenarian movements; vernacular religion; popular culture; visionary artists |
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Rocío Zambrana, Assistant ProfessorDepartment of Philosophy |
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| Education: | B.A., Philosophy, University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez, 2001; MA, Philosophy, New School for Social Research, 2004 Ph.D., Philosophy, New School for Social Research, 2010 |
| Field of Interest: | Continental Philosophy, with focus on German Idealism and Frankfurt School Critical Theory |
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