Comparative Literature
Mus'ab Abdul Salam
Comparative Literature Graduate Student
Comparative Literature
Email: musaba@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0529
Office: 216 PLC
Hessam Abedini
Comparative Literature Graduate Student/ ENG GE
Comparative Literature, English
Email: habedini@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541.346.2243
Office: 316 PLC
Office Hours: Spring Term: TR 9-10:30am
Research Interests: Indo-European Epic; Translation Studies and Philology; Orientalism; Classical Persian Poetry; Nineteenth-Century English Literature
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
Cinema Studies Program, Comics and Cartoon Studies, Comparative Literature, Middle East and North African Studies
Email: mallan@uoregon.edu
Office: 358 PLC
Office Hours: By Appointment
Research Interests: World literature (Francophone, Arabic), Film and visual culture, Postcolonial studies, Literary theory
Seema Amin
Graduate Student, Department of Comparative Literature
Comparative Literature
Email: samin@uoregon.edu
Office: 310 Villard
Office Hours: Spring 2023 Office Hours: Wednesdays 2pm-3pm
Monique Balbuena
Associate Professor of Comparative Literature
Comparative Literature
Email: balbuena@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-2311
Office: 345 PLC
Research Interests: Comparative Literature and Jewish Studies, Sephardic Languages, Ladino, Poetry, French and Francophone Literatures, Latin American Studies
Melissa Bowers
Associate Director, Academic Support
Arabic Studies, Classics, Comics and Cartoon Studies, Comparative Literature, Comparative Literature Journal, Digital Humanities, Disability Studies, English, Folklore Program, Humanities Program, Medieval Studies, Northwest Indian Language Institute, Philosophy, Religious Studies
Email: bowersm@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1506
Office: 124 PLC
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
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
Phone: 541-346-0934
Office: 363 PLC
Research Interests: 19th century European novel, translation studies, philology, history of the novel, the Gothic, gender, technology
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
Email: rbc@uoregon.edu
Office: 426 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Spring 2024: Tuesdays 2:00-3:00 pm (email in advance appreciated)
Research Interests: Modern Chinese and Russian Literatures, Critical Theory, Formalism, Affect Studies, Sociolinguistic Literary Criticism
Jade Fraley
Academic and Operations Coordinator, ASU #3
Classics, Comparative Literature, English, Folklore Program, Humanities Program, Medieval Studies, Philosophy, Religious Studies
Email: jadef@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0934
Office: 118 PLC
Office Hours: M/T/W 8:30a-3:30p (in person)|Th/F 8:30a-3:30p (Remote)
Research Interests: B.A. Communication Disorders & Sciences, Lover of Theatre Arts & Dogs
Kathy Furrer
Graduate Support Specialist ASU#3
Classics, Comparative Literature, English, Folklore Program, Humanities Program, Religious Studies
Email: kfurrer@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1501
Office: 118 PLC
Office Hours: Tues./Wed./Thurs. 8:30am-Noon/1 to 3:30pm and Mon./Fri. Remote Avail. by Email
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
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
Cinema Studies Program, Comparative Literature
Email: sgopal@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5524
Office: 103 PLC
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
Phone: 541-346-4020
Research Interests: nineteenth century French studies,Jewish studies,European studies,interdisciplinary studies in literature, music, dance
Julia Graham
Academic Programs Manager
Arabic Studies, 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
Mushira Habib
Comparative Literature Graduate Student/GE
Comparative Literature
Email: mushirah@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0934
Office: 313B Villard Hall
Research Interests: Memoirs and Autobiographies, Memory Studies, Postcolonial Literatures in English (with a special interest in SouthAsian Literatures), Postcolonial Studies, Women & Gender Studies, Media Studies (especially Popular & Social Media), Creative Nonfiction, Lin
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
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
Email: hokanson@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3947
Office: 357 PLC
Research Interests: 19th-century Russian literature, women's writing, and Russian colonialism.
Matthias Kramer
Comparative Literature Graduate Student
Comparative Literature
Email: mkramer@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0934
Research Interests: Speculative Thought, Japanese and Anglophone Literature, Translated Literature and Literary Translation, Queer Theories and Theories of Deconstruction
Marena Lear
Comparative Literature Graduate Student
Comparative Literature
Email: mlear@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1515
Office: 23 PLC
Research Interests: Interests: 20th and 21st century English language poetry and poetics, Latin American film & literature, film and digital media studies, feminist theory and gender studies
Pearl Lee
Comparative Literature Graduate Student/GE
Comparative Literature
Email: klee16@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0934
Office: 313B Villard Hall
Office Hours: Sprig Term: Mondays 1:30p-3:30p
Research Interests: Biopolitics; Neo-Marxism; 20th- and 21st- century East Asian and Latin American literatures engaging with neoliberalism; Asian diasporic literature; film, animation and comic studies
Yei Won Lim
Comparative Literature Graduate Student
Comparative Literature
Email: ylim@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1307
Office: 215 PLC
Chutong Liu
Comparative Literature Graduate Student/ ENG GE
Comparative Literature, English, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies
Email: chutongl@uoregon.edu
Office: 21 PLC
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
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
Office Hours: PLC: MTW 12:30-4pm, Remote: MTW 7am-11:30am and ThF 7:30am-4pm
Dawn Marlan
Senior Lecturer I
Comparative Literature, German & Scandinavian, SAIL
Email: damarlan@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0934
Office: 363 PLC
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/ ENG GE
Comparative Literature
Email: kmcdunn@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0934
Office: 313B Villard Hall
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
Leah Middlebrook
Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Spanish
Comparative Literature, Romance Languages, Spanish
Email: middlebr@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3103
Office: 355 PLC Hall
Office Hours: F 2023 - W 11-1, on sabbatical leave W/S
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, Spanish
Email: lmillar@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4031
Office: Friendly 211
Office Hours: Spring, 2024: in person, Wednesdays, 2-4, and by appointment. Zoom by appointment only.
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/ ENG GE
Raymund Fellow
Comparative Literature, English
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
Amanda Powell
Comparative Literature Graduate Student/ ENG GE
Comparative Literature, English
Email: apowell3@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0050
Office: 269 PLC
Office Hours: Spring Term: M 12-1:30pm, W 3:30-5pm
Research Interests: Postcolonial studies, Victorian literature, post-modernism, modern Latin American literature, 20th century British and American literature, rhetoric, lo real maravilloso, literary theory and criticism, mad studies
Jenifer Presto
Associate Professor of Comparative Literature
Interim Director of COLT Graduate Studies
Comparative Literature, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies
Email: presto@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-485-7400
Office: 346 PLC
Office Hours: Summer 2024: By appointment on Zoom
Research Interests: Russian modernism; gender studies; environmental criticism; visual culture; digital humanities; Russian-Italian cultural interactions; and Russian-American culture
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
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
Comparative Literature, Education Research and Outreach
Email: frasheed@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0934
Office: 310 Villard Hall
Research Interests: Ethnography; World literature; Partition Studies; Tradition, Law and Feminism in India
Untara Rayeesa
Comparative Literature Graduate Student/ ENG GE
Comparative Literature, English
Email: urayeesa@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0934
Office: 310 Villard Hall
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
Steven Shankman
Professor Emeritus
UNESCO Chair in Transcultural Studies, Interreligious Dialogue, and Peace
Comparative Literature, English, Judaic Studies Program
Email: shankman@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3997
Office: 373 PLC
Office Hours: Not teaching ENG this term; available via email
Research Interests: Comparative literature, the classical tradition in English and American literature, the eighteenth century, and the history of literary theory
Carol Silverman
Professor Emeritus
Anthropology, Comparative Literature, Judaic Studies Program, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies
Email: csilverm@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5114
Office Hours:
Research Interests: Arts and human rights, music, Balkans, Roma, gender, ritual
Jean-Baptiste Simonnet
Comparative Literature Graduate Student
Comparative Literature
Email: jsimonn3@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0054
Office: 234 PLC
Devina Sindhu
Comparative Literature Graduate Student/GE
Comparative Literature
Email: dsindhu@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0937
Office: 215 Villard Hall
Research Interests: Writing by and about women, global anglophone literature, feminist philosophy, phenomenology, decoloniality, decolonial feminism, world literature, philosophy and literature, ethics, postcolonial thought, South Asian literature and diaspora
Tze-Yin Teo
Associate Professor of Comparative Literature
Comparative Literature
Email: tteo2@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0906
Office: 356 PLC
Office Hours: By appointment
Ted Toadvine
Professor of Philosophy and Environmental Studies
Comparative Literature, Philosophy
Email: toadvine@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: 19th & 20th Century Continental Philosophy (especially Phenomenology and Post-Structuralism), Philosophy of Nature and Environment
Ryan Walker
Graduate Student, Department of Comparative Literature
Comparative Literature
Email: rwalker9@uoregon.edu
Office: 313 Villard Hall
Office Hours: Thursdays 12:00-1:00 PM
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
English Department GE
Comparative Literature
Email: nwirtz@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0050
Office: 269 PLC
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
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