CAS Humanities Faculty

Vsevolod Kapatsinski

Professor

Department Head

Linguistics

Email: vkapatsi@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-3923

Office: 367 Straub Hall, 1290 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1290

Office Hours: Mon 2:00p-4:00p, in person (STB 367) or Zoom (https://uoregon.zoom.us/j/8408366848)

Research Interests: computational learning theory, constituency, unitization, frequency effects, probabilistic morphophonology, inferential statistics, usage-based linguistic theory, mechanisms of language change

Kathleen Karlyn

Professor Emerita

English

Email: karlyn@uoregon.edu

Office Hours:

Heidi Kaufman

Associate Professor

English

Email: hkaufman@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-3932

Office: 327 PLC, 1286 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286

Office Hours: Spring Term: F 10am-1pm & by appt.

Masami Kawai

Assistant Professor

Cinema Studies

Email: mkawai@uoregon.edu

Office: 254 PLC, 6223 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-6223

Research Interests: Directing, Screenwriting, Producing, and Independent Filmmaking

Kate Kelp-Stebbins

Associate Professor

Director Comics and Cartoon Studies

Comics and Cartoon Studies, Digital Humanities, English

Email: kkelp@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-1520

Office: 333 PLC, 1286 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286

Office Hours: F 2025: M 10-11:30am by Zoom, T 12-1:30pm in PLC 333, and by appointment

Research Interests: Colonial, Settler Colonial, and Postcolonial Studies, Comics and Cartoon Studies, Digital Humanities, Feminism Studies, Film, Television, and Media Studies, Postmodern and Contemporary Literary Studies, Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity

Harinder Khalsa

Senior Instructor II of Italian/YLC Self Study Language Program Coordinator

College of Arts and Sciences, School of Global Studies and Languages, Romance Languages, Italian, Yamada Language Center

Email: harinder@uoregon.edu

Office: MCK 161

Office Hours: M 10:45-11:45 AM, W 2:00-3:00 PM or by appointment

Research Interests: Italian language and culture, Turkish language and culture, Less Commonly Taught Languages, second language acquisition, teaching and teacher training.

Dong Hoon Kim

Associate Professor of Cinema Studies

Cinema Studies

Email: donghoon@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-4108

Office: 331 Villard, 1109 Old Campus Lane, Eugene OR 97403

Office Hours: On Leave (Fall 2025-Winter 2026)

Jina Kim

Associate Professor, Korean Literature & Culture

East Asian Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages

Email: jinak@uoregon.edu

Office: 403 Friendly Hall, 1248 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1248

Office Hours: Fall 2023:Friday 12:00 (Noon)-2:00 pm Global Scholars Hall 105

Research Interests: Modern Korean literature, Comparative literature, Sound studies, Radio studies, Transmedia, Korean diaspora

Martin Klebes

Associate Professor

Head, Department of German & Scandinavian

German & Scandinavian, School of Global Studies and Languages

Email: klebes@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-2818

Office: 202C Agate Hall, 1250 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1205

Office Hours: MW 12:30 p.m. -13:30 p.m., and by appointment

Research Interests: 18th- through 21st-century German and French literature, philosophy and critical thought.

Caroline Koopford

Pro Tem Instructor

Creative Writing Program

Email: cec@uoregon.edu

Colin Koopman

Professor of Philosophy

Director of New Media and Culture Certificate & Pre-Law Advisor

Philosophy

Email: koopman@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-5980

Office: 250A Susan Campbell Hall, 1295 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1295

Office Hours: Fall Term office hours are by appointment in light of my course (the Pedagogy Seminar) being a high-contact graduate course; I can regularly make myself available to students in this course either just after or before course meetings (as well as other times).

Research Interests: Political Philosophy, Information Politics and Data Ethics, Social Impacts of AI, History of Philosophy, Genealogy, Pragmatism