Graduate Students

Roger Adkins

E-mail:

• radkins@uoregon.edu

Education:

• B.A., English, creative writing, Hiram College, 1995
• M.A., gender studies (interdisciplinary), UO, 1999

Fields of Interest:

• Postmodernism and its medieval and modernist roots; Gender studies, queer theory, Foucauldian theory; Folklore, narrative studies, ethnography; The supernatural, the occult, the 'monstrous Other; Cultural studies, film studies; Nordic and Anglophone literatures and cultural studies

Publications:

• Adkins, Roger, 1999 Where 'Sex' Is Born(e): Intersexed Births and the Social Urgency of Heterosexuality. Journal of Medical Humanities 20(2): 117-133.
• Adkins, Roger, Shelley Kowalksi, Judith Raiskin, and Kathleen Sullivan, eds., 1998 Placing Women's Studies: An Introduction to Women's Studies. San Francisco: Primis Custom Publishing/McGraw-Hill Companies.

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Jeong Chang

E-mail:

• jchang@uoregon.edu

Education:

• BA in History, UC Berkeley
• MA in English, University of Oregon

Fields of Interest:

• Representations of care in U.S., Japanese, and Korean film and television. The global migration of women to work in the care industries, such as nursing and child care. The role of film and television in mediating and negotiating global and local conceptions of care.
• Melodrama in film and television
• Disability studies and how the melodrama of care is inscribed on the body.

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Amanda Cornwall

E-mail:

• cornwall@uoregon.edu

Education:

• B.A., English, Willamette University, Salem, OR 1997
• M.A. Writing and Publishing, Emerson College, 2003
• Professional Certificate, Fine art Photography, Rockport College, May 2001.

Fields of Interest:

• 19th century Anglo-American novel

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Rachel Eccleston

E-mail:

• rachele@uoregon.edu

Education:

• B.A. English, The University of Texas at Austin

Fields of Interest:

• Early Modern British Literature and Culture
• Sephardic Jewish Studies
• Anglo-Jewish Identity and Representation

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Ernesto Garay

E-mail:

• egaray@uoregon.edu

Education:

• B.A., UC Santa Cruz, 1996; M.A., San Francisco State University, 2005

Fields of Interest:

• Latino/a cultural production; ethnic literatures; latino/a studies; ethnic studies and critical race theory

Andrea Gilroy

E-mail:

• gilroy@uoregon.edu

Education:

• B.A. Oakland University, 2005

Fields of Interest:

• Comics in general, with a focus on American and Japanese
• Japanese literature, culture, and language
• Critical theory, especially postmodernism and postcolonialism

Anna Kovalchuk

E-mail:

• annak@uoregon.edu

Education:

• B.A., English Literature and International Economics, University of California, San Diego, 2007

Fields of Interest:

• Russian and Ukrainian Literature
• American Immigrant Literature / The Literature of Immigration and Migration
• Postcolonial Studies

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Amy Leggette

E-mail:

• leggette@uoregon.edu

Education:

• B.A., Rhodes College, 2007

Fields of Interest:

• 19th-20th century French literature
• Modernism, especially French, Russian, and Anglo-American poetry
• Poetics & Rhetoric 
• The construction/performance of identity to secure or destabilize authority 

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Chet Lisiecki

E-mail:

• clisiek@uoregon.edu

Education:

• B.A., Colorado College, 2007

Fields of Interest:

• 20th century German and French poetry, psychoanalysis, emotions, social/group psychology, and translation theory.

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Laura Mangano

E-mail:

• mangano@uoregon.edu

Education:

• B.A., Literature & Philosophy, Northeastern University

Fields of Interest:

• Experimental/Avant Garde Form
• Contemporary Innovative American Lit
• Religious Theory, Art Theory, Cinema, Queer Theory/Gender Studies
• Continental Philosophy, French Postmodernism

Publications:

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Michael McCann

E-mail:

• mmccann1@uoregon.edu

Education:

• BA in Philosophy, University of Oregon
• MA in Comparative Literature, University of Oregon

Fields of Interest:

• Rhetoric, Early Modern English lit, Hermeticism

Papers Presented:

• “The Alchemy of Wit: Rhetorical Transmutation in the Pindaric Odes of Abraham Cowley,” 39th Annual Meeting of The American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, March 2008
• “Leadership and the Irony of Holistic Dissociation: A Burkean Perspective on Perelman's Philosophical Pairs,” The Promise of Reason: The New Rhetoric after Fifty Years, May 2008
• “Burke and Vico: Toward a Tropological Methodology of Composition,” 13th Biennial Conference of the Rhetoric Society of America, May 2008

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Emily McGinn

E-mail:

• mcginn@uoregon.edu

Education:

• B.A. Clark University 2003
• M.A. Clark University 2007

Fields of Interest:

• Anglo, Irish, and South American modernisms
• Intersections of science and literature, chaos and other contemporary critical theories

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Monica McLellan

E-mail:

• mmclell1@uoregon.edu

Education:

• BA, New York University, 2005

Fields of Interest:

• Pre-modern Chinese literature
• English, Japanese & French poetry & poetics
• Marxist Critical Theory
• History, Ritual & Decadence

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Jenny Odintz

E-mail:

• jodintz@uoregon.edu

Education:

• BA in Romance Languages, Mount Holyoke College, 2007

Fields of Interest:

• French and English literature of the 19th and 20th centuries; Spanish literature, film in all three languages, women's writing, autobiography, and mystery novels

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Moshe Rachmuth

E-mail:

• mrachmut@uoregon.edu

Education:

• B.Sc. Computer Science, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 1998
• M.A. Religious Studies, Tel-Aviv University, 2004

Fields of Interest:

• Contemporary American Lit, contemporary Italian lit, performance studies, comedy

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Max Rayneard

E-mail:

• mraynear@uoregon.edu

Education:

• Rhodes University, South Africa, BA (hons) 1999, MA 2002, English Literature

Fields of Interest:

• Literary pedagogy, post-colonialism, performance theory

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Jamie Richards

E-mail:

• jrichar9@uoregon.edu

Education:

• BA in English, Scripps College, 2002;
• MFA in Literary Translation, University of Iowa, 2004

Fields of Interest:

• 20 th Century Italian, British and American lit, queer theory, gender studies, translation

Papers Presented:

• "The Politics of Futurist Translation," American Comparative Literature Association, April 2008

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Sophie Sapp

E-mail:

• sophias@uoregon.edu

Education:

• B.A. in French Literature, Reed College, 2002
• M.A. in Comparative Literature, San Francisco State University, 2008

Fields of Interest:

• 20th Century Francophone (focus on Caribbean) and Russian Literature
• Contemporary American Novel
• Gastronomy in Literature and Film (focus on cannibalism, food politics, eco-criticism)
• History of Gastronomy
• Horror in Literature and Film
• Postcolonialism and Cultural Studies

Papers presented

• “The Communist Body in Disciplinary Society: Foucault and The Foundation Pit” -American Comparative Literature Association Annual Conference, April 2006.
• “Detective Spaces: Impossible Architecture in Georges Perec’s La vie mode d’emploi” -Equinoxes 2008 Conference: “Architectures,” March 2008.

Publications

• “Detective Spaces: Impossible Architecture in Georges Perec’s La vie mode d’emploi” -July 2008 in Equinoxes, Brown University’s online graduate journal of Francophone studies:
  <http://www.brown.edu/Research/Equinoxes/journal/Issue%2011/Eqx11_Sapp.html>

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Erin Senning

E-mail:

• erokita@uoregon.edu

Education:

• B.A., Colorado College, 2000
• M.A., University of Oregon, 2007

Fields of Interest:

• Postwar German literature and culture; contemporary U.S. ethnic literature; transnational migration studies; feminist theory

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Jon Templin

E-mail:

• templin@uoregon.edu

Education:

• B.A., English, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, 2008

Fields of Interest:

• Afro-American, Caribbean,Latino/a literatures, with a focus on issues of oppression and resistance.
• Postcolonialism, Cultural and Ethnic Studies

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Yvonne Toepfer

E-mail:

• ytoepfer@uoregon.edu

Education:

• BA, Psychology, UO, 2006

Fields of Interest:

• 18th century German (English, Russian, Chinese) Literature; emergence of orientalism in 18th centruy Europe
• Fairy tales from different cultures/countries
• Fairy tale adaptations and cultural/political implication in 20th century Germany and Eastern Europe

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