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Participating Faculty

Stacy Alaimo

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  • Affiliation: administrative faculty
  • Title: Professor of English
  • Additional Title: Director of Graduate Studies; Core Faculty, Environmental Studies
  • Phone: 541-346-1476
  • Office: 205 PLC
  • Office Hours: Spring Term: M 9am-1pm (in person); T 3-5pm (Zoom only, email for appt and link)
  • Affiliated Departments: Comparative Literature, Environmental Studies
  • Teaching Level: Doctoral
  • Interests: Environmental Humanities, Posthumanities/New Materialism, American Studies, Cultural Studies, Literary and Critical Th,Postmodern and Contemporary Literary Studies, Visual Culture, Race, Ethnicity, and Indignity, Gender, Sexuality, Queer and Trans Studies
  • Research Website: Research
  • Website: Website

Susan Anderson

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  • Affiliation: emeritus
  • Title: Professor of German
  • Phone: 541-346-4056
  • Office: 321 Friendly Hall
  • Affiliated Departments: Environmental Studies, European Studies, Translation Studies, Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies
  • Programs, Research and Outreach: Advising and Student Experience
  • Teaching Level: Doctoral
  • Interests: German and Austrian literature and culture from the late 19th century to the present

Lowell Bowditch

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  • Affiliation: faculty, officer of administration
  • Title: Professor, Classics Department Head, Interim Director of Creative Writing
  • Phone: 541-346-0552
  • Office: 108 Alder Building
  • Office Hours: Thursday 12:00pm-2:00pm
  • Affiliated Departments: Clark Honors College, Humanities Program
  • Website: Website

Anita Chari

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  • Affiliation: faculty
  • Title: Associate Professor
  • Phone: 541-346-4752
  • Office: 928 PLC
  • Office Hours: Tuesdays 12-1 pm drop-in in person CHA 105, Wed. on zoom, reserve a time at https://calendly.com/anitachari/officehours. Please note drop in office hours weeks 2, 4, 6 are by appointment only
  • Affiliated Departments: German & Scandinavian
  • Interests: Political Theory, Critical Theory, Frankfurt School, Marxism, Contemplative Studies, Somatics and Politics
  • Research Website: Research
  • Website: Website

Joyce Cheng

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  • Affiliation: faculty
  • Title: Associate Professor
  • Phone: Zoom ID 5413463677
  • Office: 240 Lawrence Hall
  • City: Eugene, Oregon
  • Affiliated Departments: Philosophy
  • Teaching Level: Doctoral, Masters, Undergraduate
  • Interests: European modern art & poetics, history of the avant-garde, primitivism, Dada, surrealism, critical theory, methodological issues in art history & visual culture

James Crosswhite

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  • Affiliation: faculty
  • Title: Professor
  • Phone: 541-346-3956
  • Office: 258 PLC
  • Office Hours: Not teaching Spring 2024, available by email
  • Affiliated Departments: Comparative Literature
  • Interests: Environmental Humanities, Literary and Critical Theory, Poetry and Poetics, Rhetoric, Composition, and Composition Pedagogy

Dianne Dugaw

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  • Affiliation: emeritus
  • Title: Professor
  • Additional Title: Professor Emerita
  • Phone: 541-346-1496
  • Office: 458 PLC
  • Office Hours: Not teaching this term, no office hours; Grad students send email

Cecilia Enjuto Rangel

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  • Affiliation: faculty
  • Title: Associate Professor of Spanish
  • Additional Title: Director of Undergraduate Studies
  • Phone: 541-346-4045
  • Office: 323 Friendly Hall
  • Office Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays 9am-10am
  • Affiliated Departments: Comparative Literature

Pedro García-Caro

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  • Affiliation: faculty
  • Title: Associate Professor of Spanish
  • Additional Title: Senator
  • Phone: 541-346-5813
  • Office: 325 Friendly Hall
  • Office Hours: W. 10am-12pm or by appointment.
  • Affiliated Departments: Comparative Literature, Latin American Studies, Latinx
  • Interests: Nationalism, Postmodernity, Postcolonial Studies, Environmental Studies, US Hispanic Literatures, Mexican Literature, Border Literature, Comparative American Studies, Transatlantic Studies, Satire, Drama, Translation
  • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pedro-garcia-caro-b0b70a40/
  • Research Website: Research
  • Website: Website

Gantt Gurley

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  • Affiliation: faculty
  • Title: Associate Professor
  • Additional Title: Program Director, Harold Schnitzer Family Program in Judaic Studies, Advisor
  • Phone: 541-346-4055
  • Office: 319 Friendly Hall
  • Office Hours: F 10–2 or by appointment
  • Affiliated Departments: Comics and Cartoon Studies, Comparative Literature, European Studies, Folklore Program, Judaic Studies Program, Medieval Studies
  • Teaching Level: Doctoral, Masters, Undergraduate
  • Interests: Ancient and medieval song culture, the birth of the novel, the Wandering Jew, Long Romanticism, Old Norse literature, the lyrical mode, Hans Christian Andersen, and notions of religiosity in the Danish Golden Age.

Lamia Karim

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  • Affiliation: faculty
  • Title: Professor & Department Head
  • Phone: 541-346-5095
  • Office: 375 Condon Hall
  • City: EUGENE
  • Office Hours: Wed from 2-3 PM and by appointment and Zoom
  • Affiliated Departments: Asian Studies, Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies
  • Programs, Research and Outreach: Advising and Student Experience, Applied Voice, Appropriate Dispute Resolution Center
  • Teaching Level: Doctoral
  • Interests: women, work, neoliberalism, state, and Islam
  • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/notifications/?filter=all

Martin Klebes

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  • Affiliation: faculty
  • Title: Associate Professor
  • Phone: 541-346-2818
  • Office: 205 Friendly Hall
  • Office Hours: On leave
  • Affiliated Departments: Clark Honors College, European Studies
  • Interests: 18th- through 21st-century German and French literature, philosophy and critical thought.

Colin Koopman

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  • Affiliation: faculty
  • Title: Professor of Philosophy
  • Additional Title: Director of New Media and Culture Certificate Program & Pre-Law Advisor (on leave 2024)
  • Phone: 541-346-5980
  • Office: 250A Susan Campbell Hall
  • Office Hours: By Appointment
  • Affiliated Departments: Comparative Literature, German & Scandinavian
  • Interests: Political Philosophy, Information Politics and Data Ethics, AI, History of Philosophy, Genealogy, Pragmatism
  • Website: Website

Jeffrey S. Librett

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  • Affiliation: faculty
  • Title: Professor of German & Scandinavian
  • Additional Title: Department Head, Director of Graduate Studies
  • Phone: 541-346-0649
  • Office: 327 Friendly Hall
  • Office Hours: Winter 2023: Tuesday 3:30-5:00pm and by appointment (through email)
  • Affiliated Departments: Philosophy
  • Teaching Level: Doctoral
  • Interests: German, French, and English letters; Enlightenment, Counter-enlightenment, Romanticism, and Modernism; literature, philosophy, critical theory, inter-arts discourse, Judaic Studies, psychoanalysis, film

Massimo Lollini

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  • Title: Professor Emeritus of Italian
  • Phone: 541-346-0957
  • Office: 325 Friendly Hall
  • Teaching Level: Doctoral
  • Interests: Humanisms, More-than-Human-Humanism and Ecocriticism, Digital Culture and New Media, Digital Philology, Mediterranean Studies, Italian and European literature and theory.
  • Research Website: Research
  • Twitter: Twitter
  • Website: Website

John McCole

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  • Affiliation: faculty
  • Title: Associate Professor
  • Phone: 541-346-5906
  • Office: 303 McKenzie Hall
  • Office Hours: Spring 2023 W 2-4 in McKenzie 303, or email me for a Zoom link
  • Affiliated Departments: European Studies, German & Scandinavian
  • Website: Website

Fabienne Moore

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  • Affiliation: faculty
  • Title: Associate Professor of French
  • Additional Title: Head, French sector
  • Phone: 541-346-4032
  • Office: 324 Friendly Hall
  • City: Eugene, OR
  • Office Hours: Spring 2024: Tuesdays 2-4 am
  • Affiliated Departments: Comparative Literature
  • Teaching Level: Doctoral, Masters, Undergraduate
  • Interests: Early European romanticism; Chateaubriand; Staël; European Enlightenment; the French & Haitian Revolutions; French and Francophocultural and literary history; prose poetry; the evolution of the novel; bande dessinées & graphic narratives; blue humanities

Dorothee Ostmeier

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  • Affiliation: faculty
  • Title: Professor of German, and Folklore and Public Culture
  • Additional Title: Head, Department of Theater Arts
  • Phone: 541-346-4145
  • Office: 215 Friendly Hall
  • City: Eugene
  • Office Hours: Tue/Thu 1:20 to 2 PM GSH 103 Afterwards Villard until 3:30 PM and by appointment
  • Affiliated Departments: Comparative Literature, School of Global Studies and Languages, Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies
  • Interests: German literature and culture of the 18th through 20th century

Paul Peppis

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  • Affiliation: faculty
  • Title: Professor
  • Additional Title: Director, Oregon Humanities Center
  • Phone: 541-346-7017
  • Office: 154 PLC
  • Office Hours: Spring Term: T 12-3pm & by appt.
  • Affiliated Departments: Comics and Cartoon Studies
  • Interests: Comics and Cartoon Studies, Cultural Studies, Irish Literary Studies, Modernism Studies, Poetry and Poetics, Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity, The Novel

Gina Psaki

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  • Affiliation: emeritus
  • Title: Professor Emerita of Italian
  • Additional Title: Professor, Romance Languages
  • Phone: 541-346-4042
  • Office: 224 Friendly Hall
  • Affiliated Departments: Humanities Program
  • Interests: Italian and French literature of the Middle Ages; comparative medieval literature; medieval lyric and romance; Dante; Boccaccio; translation; medieval feminist scholarship; discourse analysis; metadisciplinary issues in medieval literary study; history of

Forest Pyle

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  • Affiliation: faculty
  • Title: Professor
  • Phone: 541-346-3928
  • Office: 270 PLC
  • Affiliated Departments: Comics and Cartoon Studies
  • Interests: 19th Century British Literary Studies, Comics and Cartoon Studies, Literary and Critical Theory, Poetry and Poetics, Postmodern and Contemporary Literary Studies, Visual Culture

Judith Raiskin

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  • Affiliation: faculty
  • Title: Professor
  • Office Hours: Please email faculty using your UO email account or use Canvas if enrolled in a course with the professor.
  • Affiliated Departments: Clark Honors College
  • Interests: Post-colonial literature and cultural studies focusing on gender and comparative feminist theory; Caribbean; Disability Studies; LGBTQ studies; and sexuality.

Sergio Rigoletto

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  • Title: Associate Professor of Cinema Studies and Italian
  • Phone: 541-346-4033
  • Office: 424 Friendly Hall
  • Affiliated Departments: Comparative Literature, European Studies

Daniel Rosenberg

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  • Affiliation: faculty
  • Title: Professor
  • Phone: 541-346-0520
  • Office: 359 McKenzie Hall
  • Office Hours: Winter 2024, Weds 12:00-2:00pm by appointment. Schedule meeting: https://outlook.office.com/bookwithme/user/5ebe648ec95e469d87cd9dc11c6d78ec@uoregon.edu?anonymous&ep=plink
  • Interests: Intellectual History, Enlightenment Europe, History of Information, History of Science and Technology

Gordon Sayre

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  • Affiliation: faculty
  • Title: Professor
  • Phone: 541-346-1313
  • Office: 472 PLC
  • Office Hours: Spring Term: M 2-3:30pm, R 10:30am-12pm
  • Affiliated Departments: Environmental Studies
  • Programs, Research and Outreach: Appropriate Dispute Resolution Center
  • Teaching Level: Doctoral
  • Interests: Folkore, Environmental Humanities, Colonial American Literature, Automobility and Car Cultures, Indigenous Studies
  • Research Website: Research

Steven Shankman

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  • Affiliation: emeritus, faculty
  • Title: Professor Emeritus
  • Additional Title: UNESCO Chair in Transcultural Studies, Interreligious Dialogue, and Peace
  • Phone: 541-346-3997
  • Office: 373 PLC
  • Office Hours: Not teaching ENG this term; available via email
  • Affiliated Departments: Classics, Clark Honors College, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies
  • Interests: Comparative literature, the classical tradition in English and American literature, the eighteenth century, and the history of literary theory
  • Website: Website

Carol Silverman

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  • Affiliation: emeritus, faculty
  • Title: Professor Emeritus
  • Phone: 541-346-5114
  • Affiliated Departments: Folklore Program, Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies
  • Interests: Arts and human rights, music, Balkans, Roma, gender, ritual
  • Website: Website

Beata Stawarska

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  • Affiliation: faculty
  • Title: Professor of Philosophy
  • Additional Title: Director of Graduate Studies for Advising/Curriculum Committee/GTF Appointment Committee/Graduate Placing Committee/Graduate Philosophy Club
  • Phone: 541-346-5545
  • Office: 247 Susan Campbell Hall
  • Affiliated Departments: Black Studies, Clark Honors College, German & Scandinavian, Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies
  • Interests: Contemporary European Philosophy, Phenomenology, Structuralism and Post-Structuralism, Philosophical Psychology, Feminism

Michael Stern

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  • Affiliation: faculty
  • Title: Associate Professor of German & Scandinavian
  • Additional Title: Director of Undergraduate Studies Scandinavian
  • Phone: 541-346-4126
  • Office: 204 Friendly Hall
  • Office Hours: Spring 2023: Tuesdays and Thursdays 12:00pm-1:00pm and by appointment
  • Affiliated Departments: Clark Honors College, Comparative Literature, Humanities Program, Philosophy
  • Programs, Research and Outreach: Advising and Student Experience
  • Teaching Level: Doctoral, Masters, Undergraduate
  • Interests: Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Western European Intellectual History, African literature, film, and thought, 19th Century Scandinavian Literature.

Analisa Taylor

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  • Affiliation: faculty
  • Title: Associate Professor of Spanish
  • Phone: 541-521-9762
  • Office: 326 Friendly Hall
  • City: Eugene
  • Office Hours: On leave winter '23
  • Affiliated Departments: Latinx, Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies
  • Teaching Level: Doctoral, Masters, Undergraduate
  • Interests: Culture and Social Movements in Latinx USA and Latin America; Mesoamerican Foodways, Migrations, and Human Rights; Ecology, Culture, Capital, and the State in the Americas

Alejandro Vallega

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  • Affiliation: faculty
  • Title: Professor of Philosophy
  • Additional Title: Committee on Diversity & Inclusiveness
  • Office: 248 Susan Campbell Hall
  • City: Eugene
  • Office Hours: Wednesday 2:30-4:30
  • Affiliated Departments: Comparative Literature, German & Scandinavian, Latin American Studies, Romance Languages
  • Teaching Level: Doctoral
  • Interests: Decolonial epistemology. Continental Philosophy (Deconstruction, Phenomenology, and Hermeneutics); Latin American Thought; Ancient Greek Philosophy. Aesthetic Philosophy. World philosophies.

Daniela Vallega-Neu

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  • Affiliation: faculty
  • Title: Professor of Philosophy
  • Additional Title: Graduate Studies Committee/Colloquium and Events Committee/Merit Review Committee
  • Phone: 541-346-5549
  • Office: 240 Susan Campbell Hall
  • Office Hours: Spring 2024: Mondays from 2:30-4:30pm or by appointment
  • Affiliated Departments: Comparative Literature
  • Teaching Level: Doctoral
  • Interests: 19th and 20th Century European Thought (especially Nietzsche, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Contemporary French thought); Phenomenology; Hermeneutics; Deconstruction; Ontology related to issues of body.
  • Website: Website

Yugen Wang

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  • Affiliation: faculty
  • Title: Professor, Chinese Literature, Department Head
  • Phone: 541-346-3503
  • Office: 304 Friendly Hall
  • Office Hours: Spring 2024, WED 11-1
  • Affiliated Departments: Asian Studies, Comparative Literature, School of Global Studies and Languages

Elizabeth (Betsy) Wheeler

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  • Affiliation: faculty
  • Title: Professor
  • Phone: 541-346-3929
  • Office: 238 PLC
  • City: Eugene
  • Office Hours: Spring Term: MW 2:30-4pm in person (drop-in or by appt.) or on Zoom by appt. (email for appt.)
  • Affiliated Departments: Environmental Studies, Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies
  • Teaching Level: Doctoral
  • Interests: Disability Studies, Comics and Cartoon Studies, American Studies, Postmodern and Contemporary Literary Studies, Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity

Daniel Wojcik

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  • Affiliation: faculty
  • Title: Professor
  • Phone: 541-346-3946
  • Office: 463 PLC
  • Office Hours: Spring Term: MR 12-1:30pm
  • Affiliated Departments: Folklore Program, Religious Studies
  • Interests: Cultural Studies, Folklore Studies, Religion & Mythology