Comparative Literature
Mus'ab Abdul Salam
Comparative Literature Graduate Student
Comparative Literature
Email: musaba@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0529
Office: 216 PLC, 1286 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286
Hessam Abedini
Comparative Literature Graduate Student/GE
Comparative Literature
Email: habedini@uoregon.edu
Office: 316 PLC
Office Hours: Spring Term: TR 9-10:30am
Research Interests: Mediterranean Epic Traditions; Comparative Mythology and Religion; Translation Theory and Comparative Poetics; Digital Manuscript Studies; Postcolonial Literary Studies; Religion in World Cinema; Indo-European and Near Eastern Traditions
Aycan Akçamete
Assistant Professor
Comparative Literature, Theatre Arts
Email: akcamete@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1323
Office Hours: By appointment
Research Interests: Performance Studies, Intercultural Theater, Contemporary Theater in the UK and Turkiye, Theatre Criticism
Michael Allan
Associate Professor of Comparative Literature
Program Faculty in Cinema Studies; Program Faculty in Arabic; Program Faculty in Middle East Studies; Program Faculty in Comic Studies
Comparative Literature, Cinema Studies, Arabic Studies, Comics and Cartoon Studies, Middle East and North African Studies
Email: mallan@uoregon.edu
Office: 358 PLC, 5242 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Office Hours: Wednesdays from 1:45-3:45pm. Please book an appointment at the following link: (https://tinyurl.com/kcp3m73r)
Research Interests: World literature (Francophone, Arabic), Film and visual culture, Postcolonial studies, Literary theory
Seema Amin
Comparative Literature Graduate Student
Comparative Literature
Email: samin@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: Spring 2023 Office Hours: Wednesdays 2pm-3pm
Julie Anderson
Faculty Support Coordinator
Arabic Studies, Classics, Comics and Cartoon Studies, Comparative Literature, Digital Humanities, Disability Studies, Humanities Program, Medieval Studies, Philosophy, Religious Studies
Email: jlanders@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1504
Office: 124 PLC, 1286 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286
Office Hours: Monday: 9:00a-4:30p<br />
Tuesday: 9:00a-4:30p<br />
Wednesday: 9:00a-11:30a<br />
Thursday: Remote<br />
Friday: Remote
Monique Balbuena
Associate Professor of Comparative Literature
Comparative Literature
Email: balbuena@uoregon.edu
Office: 345 PLC, 1249 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Research Interests: Comparative Literature and Jewish Studies, Sephardic Languages, Ladino, Poetry, French and Francophone Literatures, Latin American Studies
Melissa Bowers
Associate Director, Academic Support
Classics, Comics and Cartoon Studies, Comparative Literature, Comparative Literature Journal, Digital Humanities, Disability Studies, English, Folklore Program, Humanities Program, Medieval Studies, Philosophy, Religious Studies, Arabic Studies
Email: bowersm@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1506
Office: 124 PLC, 1286 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Office Hours: (if needed, please contact me via email for an appointment, walk-ins are not guaranteed) Mon. -Wed. 8:30 a.m.-Noon and 1- 5 p.m. (118 PLC) 541.346.1506, Thursday and Friday remote 8am-5pm
Steven Brown
Professor of Comparative Literature
Asian Studies, Comics and Cartoon Studies, Comparative Literature
Email: stb@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4016
Office: 354 PLC, 1249 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Office Hours: 3:30-5:30 on Tuesday (by appt.) via Zoom.
Research Interests: posthumanism, horror cinema, Surrealist film and animation, sound design in film, Japanese popular culture, and critical theory.
Katherine Brundan
Senior Instructor I
Comparative Literature, Disability Studies, English, Humanities Program, SAIL
Email: kbrundan@uoregon.edu
Office: 363 PLC, 1249 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Research Interests: 19th century European novel, translation studies, philology, history of the novel, the Gothic, gender, technology
Kenneth Calhoon
Professor of Comparative Literature and German
Comparative Literature, German & Scandinavian, School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: kcalhoon@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4060
Office: 356 PLC, 1249 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1205
Research Interests: German literature, aesthetics, psychoanalysis, visual arts, early cinema
Roy Chan
Associate Professor, Chinese Literature
Director of Graduate Studies, East Asian Languages & Literatures
Comparative Literature, East Asian Languages, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: rbc@uoregon.edu
Office: 426 Friendly Hall, 1248 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1248
Office Hours: Spring 2025: Mondays 2:00pm-4:00 pm (email in advance appreciated)
Research Interests: Modern Chinese and Russian Literatures, Critical Theory, Formalism, Affect Studies, Sociolinguistic Literary Criticism
Sarah Feeney
Comparative Literature Graduate Student/ ENG GE
Comparative Literature, English
Email: sfeeney@uoregon.edu
Jade Fraley
Academic and Operations Coordinator, ASU #3
Interim Disability Studies Experiential Learning Coordinator
College of Arts and Sciences, Arabic Studies, Classics, Comics and Cartoon Studies, Comparative Literature, Digital Humanities, Disability Studies, English, Folklore Program, Humanities Program, Medieval Studies, Philosophy, Religious Studies
Email: jadef@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0934
Office: 118 PLC, 1286 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Office Hours: Mon-Wed 8:30a-3:30p (in 118 PLC; closed 12-1p for lunch)) | Thurs-Fri (Remote, available via email)
Research Interests: B.A. Communication Disorders & Sciences, Lover of Theatre Arts & Dogs
Kathy Furrer
Graduate Support Specialist ASU#3
College of Arts and Sciences, Classics, Comparative Literature, English, Folklore Program, Humanities Program, Philosophy, Religious Studies
Email: kfurrer@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1501
Office: 118 PLC, 1286 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286
Office Hours: Summer Term: Mon/Fri Working Remotely avail. by Email Tues: 9:30-Noon/1-3:30 Wed/Thurs: 8:30am-Noon/1 to 3:30pm <br />
Drop-In Office Hours: Wed. 9-Noon
Anantaa Ghosh
Comparative Literature Graduate Student/ GE
Comparative Literature
Email: aghosh@uoregon.edu
Warren Ginsberg
Professor of English
Emeritus, Philip H. Knight Professor of Humanities Comparative Literature Program Faculty
Comparative Literature, English, Medieval Studies
Email: warren@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3958
Office: 257 PLC, 1286 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286
Office Hours: I am retired. You can contact me by email.
Research Interests: I am especially interested in examining the aesthetic, social, and political aspects of cross-cultural translation in Chaucer's works.
Sangita Gopal
Associate Professor of English
Comparative Literature, Cinema Studies
Email: sgopal@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5524
Office: 103 PLC, 6223 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Research Interests: Postcolonial Theory and Literature, South Asian Visual and Cultural Studies
Evlyn Gould
Professor Emerita
College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor in Humanities
Comparative Literature, French, Judaic Studies Program, Romance Languages
Email: evgould@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: nineteenth century French studies,Jewish studies,European studies,interdisciplinary studies in literature, music, dance
Julia Graham
Academic Programs Manager
Classics, College of Arts and Sciences, Comics and Cartoon Studies, Comparative Literature, Digital Humanities, Disability Studies, English, Folklore Program, Medieval Studies, Philosophy, Religious Studies
Email: jgraham3@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5062
Office: 118 PLC
Anna Hall-Taylor
Comparative Literature Graduate Student/ GE
Comparative Literature
Email: ahalltay@uoregon.edu
Anna Hindley
Executive Support Coordinator, ASU 3
Classics, Comparative Literature, English, Folklore Program, Humanities Program, Medieval Studies, Philosophy, Religious Studies
Email: hindleya@uoregon.edu
Phone: 5413462356
Office: 338 PLC, 1286 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Katya Hokanson
Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature
Director of Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, Head, Department of Comparative Literature
Comparative Literature, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: hokanson@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3947
Office: 357 PLC, 1249 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Office Hours: Spring 2025: Mondays from 10-12, Thursdays from 12-2 and by appointment.
Research Interests: 19th-century Russian literature, women's writing, and Russian colonialism.
Fatou Jobe
Comparative Literature Graduate Student/ENG GE
Comparative Literature, English
Email: fjobe@uoregon.edu
Matthias Kramer
Comparative Literature Graduate Student
Comparative Literature
Email: mkramer@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: Wednesdays, 11:30-1:30
Research Interests: Speculative Thought and Speculative Fiction, Japanese and Anglophone Literature and Popular Media, Literary Translation, Queer Futurity
Marena Lear
Comparative Literature Graduate Student/ GE
Comparative Literature
Email: mlear@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1515
Office: 23 PLC
Research Interests: Interests: Latin American and Latinx film & media, decoloniality, new materialism, posthuman feminism, science fiction and gothic genre studies
Sophia Lewis
Comparative Literature Graduate Student/ GE
Comparative Literature
Email: slewis9@uoregon.edu
You Li
Comparative Literature
Email: youli@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: World Literature, Affect Studies, Trauma Studies, Social Suffering, Caregiving
Yei Won Lim
Comparative Literature Graduate Student/ GE
Comparative Literature
Email: ylim@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1307
Office: 215 PLC, 1286 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286
Chutong Liu
Comparative Literature Graduate Student/GE
Comparative Literature
Email: chutongl@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: Spring Term: MW 1-2pm
Research Interests: Russian literature and ballet in the second half of the 19th-century, Silver Age of Russian poetry, 20th-century Soviet and Chinese Socialist Realism
Massimo Lollini
Professor Emeritus of Italian
Comparative Literature, Italian, Romance Languages
Email: maxiloll@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0957
Office: 325 Friendly Hall, 1233 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1205
Research Interests: Humanisms, More-than-Human-Humanism and Ecocriticism, Digital Culture and New Media, Digital Philology, Mediterranean Studies, Italian and European literature and theory.
Christina Lujin
Operations Specialist ASU 3
Classics, Comparative Literature, Comparative Literature Journal, Digital Humanities, Disability Studies, English, Folklore Program, Humanities Program, Medieval Studies, Northwest Indian Language Institute, Philosophy, Religious Studies
Email: clujin@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1327
Office: 311 PLC, 1286 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Office Hours: PLC: MTW 12:30-4pm, Remote: MTW 7am-11:30am and ThF 7:30am-4pm
Aishwarya Marathe
Comparative Literature Graduate Student/ GE
Comparative Literature
Email: amarathe@uoregon.edu
Dawn Marlan
Senior Lecturer I
Comparative Literature, German & Scandinavian, SAIL
Email: damarlan@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0934
Office: 363 PLC, 1249 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Office Hours: By Appointment
Research Interests: Interests: History and theory of the novel in Europe and the US, comparative modernism, contemporary fiction, visual culture, and creative writing, specifically literary nonfiction and fiction.
Kit McDunn
Comparative Literature Graduate Student/GE
Comparative Literature
Email: kmcdunn@uoregon.edu
Office: 313B Villard Hall, 5242 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-5242
Office Hours: Winter Term: Wednesday 12pm-3pm
Research Interests: climate fiction and the environmental humanities, literature in the nuclear age, disaster and revolution, Soviet literature, post-Soviet literature, Russian literature, Ukrainian literature
Susan Meyers
Faculty Support Specialist ASU 3
Arabic Studies |Classics | Comparative Literature | English Department | Folklore & Public Culture Program Humanities |Medieval Studies | Philosophy |Politics Culture and Identity| Religious Studies
Arabic Studies, Classics, Comparative Literature, English, Folklore Program, Humanities Program, Judaic Studies Program, Medieval Studies, Philosophy, Religious Studies
Email: susani@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1516
Office: 338 PLC
Office Hours: M-W:7:30-4:30, R: Remote 7:30-4:30, F: Remote 7:30-2:00
Leah Middlebrook
Professor of Comparative Literature and Spanish
Director, Oregon Humanities Center (OHC)
Comparative Literature, Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish
Email: middlebr@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3103
Office: 355 PLC Hall
Office Hours: S 2025 Friday 10:30-11:30 or by appt.
Research Interests: poetry and poetics; comparative modernities; critical race studies; early modern literature and culture of Spain, the Spanish Americas, France and Great Britain
Lanie Millar
Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese
African Studies, Black Studies, Comparative Literature, IRES, Portuguese, Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish
Email: lmillar@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4031
Office Hours: Spring, 2025: in person, Thurs. 10-12, and by appointment. Zoom by appointment only: https://uoregon.zoom.us/j/7482429908
Research Interests: 20th-21st Century Caribbean Literature, Latin American Literature, African Literature, Lusophone Literatures, Global South Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Race and Blackness, Critical Theory
Ibrahim Muhawi
Courtesy Professor of Comparative Literature
Comparative Literature, Translation Studies
Email: muhawi@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Palestinian and Arabic literature and folklore, translation and poetics
Mariam Nadeem
Comparative Literature Graduate Student/GE
Raymund Fellow
Comparative Literature
Email: mariamn@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0934
Office: 310 Villard Hall
Office Hours: Spring Term: MW 10-11:30am
Research Interests: De-colonial and feminist poetics in English, Urdu and Arabic literature, narrative identity and subject-formation, religion and secularism, existentialism, phenomenology and critical theory
Zachary Nickels
Comparative Literature Graduate Student/ENG GE
Philosophy Graduate Student
Comparative Literature, English
Email: znickels@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Continental Philosophy (Deconstruction, Phenomenology & Hermeneutics); Aesthetics; Greek Tragedy; Hegel & German Idealism; Theories of Desire; Psychoanalysis; Poetry & Poetics; Literary Theory; 20th and 21st Century Poetry; Postmodern Fiction
Amanda Powell
Comparative Literature Graduate Student/ GE
PhD Candidate
Comparative Literature
Email: apowell3@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0050
Office: 304 PLC
Office Hours: Spring Term: M 12-1:30pm, W 3:30-5pm
Research Interests: mad studies, 20th-21st century Latinx poetry, British modernism;
Dissertation: Madness as a Disease of Language
Jenifer Presto
Associate Professor of Comparative Literature
Comparative Literature, Digital Humanities, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies
Email: presto@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-485-7400
Office: 346 PLC
Office Hours: Summer 2025: By appointment
Research Interests: Modernism, Gender Studies, Environmental Criticism, Visual Culture, Digital Humanities, Russian-Italian Cultural Interactions, and Immigrant Arts
Gina Psaki
Professor Emerita of Italian
Professor, Romance Languages
Comparative Literature, Medieval Studies, Romance Languages
Email: rpsaki@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4042
Office: 224 Friendly Hall, 1233 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1233
Research 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
Feba Rasheed
Comparative Literature Graduate Student/ GE
Comparative Literature
Email: frasheed@uoregon.edu
Office: 310 Villard Hall, 5242 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-5242
Research Interests: Ethnography; World literature; Partition Studies; Tradition, Law and Feminism in India
Untara Rayeesa
Comparative Literature Graduate Student/ GE
Comparative Literature
Email: urayeesa@uoregon.edu
Office: 310 Villard Hall, 5242 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-5242
Office Hours: Spring Term: MW 1-3pm
Research Interests: Critical Theory, Postcolonial Studies, Anglophone Postcolonial Literature, South Asian Literature and Popular Culture, Women's Writing, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Carol Silverman
Professor Emeritus
Anthropology, Comparative Literature, Folklore Program, Judaic Studies Program, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies
Email: csilverm@uoregon.edu
Office Hours:
Research Interests: Arts and human rights, music, Balkans, Roma, gender, ritual
Jean-Baptiste Simonnet
Comparative Literature Graduate Student/ GE
Comparative Literature
Email: jsimonn3@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0054
Office: 234 PLC, 1286 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286
Office Hours: F 9-12
Tze-Yin Teo
Associate Professor of Comparative Literature
Comparative Literature
Email: tteo2@uoregon.edu
Office: 356 PLC, 1249 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Office Hours: By appointment
Christopher Toon
Office Generalist
Classics, College of Arts and Sciences, Comparative Literature, English, Folklore Program, Humanities Program, Medieval Studies, Philosophy, Religious Studies
Email: ctoon@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-2497
Office: 118 PLC, 1286 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Office Hours: M/T/W 8:30a-3:30p (in person)|Th/F 8:30a-3:30p (Remote)
Research Interests: B.S. Urban / Rural Sociology, Applied Anthropology
Ryan Walker
Comparative Literature Graduate Student/ ENG GE
Comparative Literature, English
Email: rwalker9@uoregon.edu
Office: 316 PLC
Office Hours: Mondays 11-12 & Wednesdays 10-12
Research Interests: Ancient Greek & Latin literatures; English & German Romanticism; Mythology, Philosophy, & Literature; Classical Reception; Poetics; Criticism & Theory; Epics, "National Epics"; Literature of Empire; Secularization; magic and (dis)enchantment in modernity
Nick Wirtz
Comparative Literature Graduate Student
Comparative Literature
Email: nwirtz@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0050
Office: 269 PLC, 1286 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286
Research Interests: Realisms and countervisuality, reference and materiality, comics, photography, history and autobiography, visual rhetoric, visual culture, media genealogy.
David Yorgesen
Operations Manager, ASU 3
Classics, Comparative Literature, Comparative Literature Journal, English, Folklore Program, Humanities Program, Medieval Studies, Philosophy, Religious Studies
Email: yorgesen@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1539
Office: 338 PLC, 1286 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Office Hours: In the office: 7:30 am – 4:30 pm, Monday - Wednesday. Remote office: 7:30 am – 4:30 pm, Thursday. 7:30 am – 4 pm, Friday