Comparative Literature Affiliated Faculty
Aycan Akcamete
Assistant Professor
Theatre Arts
Email: akcamete@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1323
Office: PLC 372
Office Hours: By appointment
Research Interests: Performance Studies, Intercultural Theater, Contemporary Theater in the UK and Turkiye
Stacy Alaimo
Professor of English
Core Faculty in Environmental Studies; Director of Graduate Studies for English Department
English, Environmental Studies
Email: salaimo@uoregon.edu
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)
Research 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
Anita Chari
Associate Professor
Clark Honors College, Political Science
Email: anitac@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4752
Office: 928 PLC
Office Hours: Tuesdays 3-4 pm in person drop in office hours PLC 928, Tuesday 4-5 pm zoom, reserve a time at https://calendly.com/anitachari/officehours.
Research Interests: Political Theory, Critical Theory, Frankfurt School, Marxism, Contemplative Studies, Somatics and Politics
Joyce Cheng
Associate Professor
History Art & Arch
Email: joycec@uoregon.edu
Phone: Zoom ID 5413463677
Office: 240 Lawrence Hall
Research Interests: European modern art & poetics, history of the avant-garde, primitivism, Dada, surrealism, critical theory, methodological issues in art history & visual culture
James Crosswhite
Professor
English
Email: jcross@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3956
Office: 258 PLC
Office Hours: Not teaching Spring 2024, available by email
Research Interests: Environmental Humanities, Literary and Critical Theory, Poetry and Poetics, Rhetoric, Composition, and Composition Pedagogy
Cecilia Enjuto Rangel
Associate Professor of Spanish
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Romance Languages
Email: enjuto@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4045
Office: 323 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays 9am-10am
Pedro García-Caro
Associate Professor of Spanish
Senator
OCIAS, Romance Languages, SAIL, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish, Translation Studies
Email: pgcaro@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5813
Office: 325 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: W. 10am-12pm or by appointment.
Research Interests: Nationalism, Postmodernity, Postcolonial Studies, Environmental Studies, US Hispanic Literatures, Mexican Literature, Border Literature, Comparative American Studies, Transatlantic Studies, Satire, Drama, Translation
Gantt Gurley
Associate Professor
Clark Honors College, Folklore Program, German & Scandinavian, Judaic Studies Program, Medieval Studies
Email: gantt@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4055
Office: 319 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: MW 2–4 or by appointment
Research 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
Professor & Department Head
Anthropology, Asian Studies, SAIL
Email: lamia@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5095
Office: 375 Condon Hall
Office Hours: Wed from 2-3 PM and by appointment and Zoom
Research Interests: women, work, neoliberalism, state, and Islam
Martin Klebes
Associate Professor
Head, Department of German & Scandinavian
German & Scandinavian
Email: klebes@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-2818
Office: 205 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: MW 12:30 p.m. -13:30 p.m.
Research Interests: 18th- through 21st-century German and French literature, philosophy and critical thought.
Colin Koopman
Professor of Philosophy
Director of New Media and Culture Certificate Program & Pre-Law Advisor (on leave 2024)
Philosophy
Email: koopman@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5980
Office: 250A Susan Campbell Hall
Office Hours: By Appointment
Research Interests: Political Philosophy, Information Politics and Data Ethics, AI, History of Philosophy, Genealogy, Pragmatism
Jeffrey S. Librett
Professor of German & Scandinavian
Department Head, Director of Graduate Studies
German & Scandinavian
Email: jlibrett@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0649
Office: 327 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Winter 2023: Tuesday 3:30-5:00pm and by appointment (through email)
Research Interests: German, French, and English letters; Enlightenment, Counter-enlightenment, Romanticism, and Modernism; literature, philosophy, critical theory, inter-arts discourse, Judaic Studies, psychoanalysis, film
John McCole
Associate Professor
History
Email: mccole@uoregon.edu
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
Fabienne Moore
Associate Professor of French
Head, French sector
French
Email: fmoore@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4032
Office: 324 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Fall 2024: Thursdays 9:30-11:30 am
Research Interests: Early European romanticism; Chateaubriand; European Enlightenment; French & Haitian Revolutions; French and Francophone cultural and literary history; prose poetry; bande dessinées & graphic narratives; blue humanities
Dorothee Ostmeier
Professor of German, and Folklore and Public Culture
Folklore Program, German & Scandinavian
Email: ostmeier@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4145
Office: 215 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Tue/Thu 1:20 to 2 PM GSH 103 Afterwards Villard until 3:30 PM and by appointment
Research Interests: German literature and culture of the 18th through 20th century
Forest Pyle
Professor
Comics and Cartoon Studies, English
Email: trespyle@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3928
Office: 270 PLC
Research 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
Professor
Disability Studies, Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies
Email: raiskin@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: Please email faculty using your UO email account or use Canvas if enrolled in a course with the professor.
Research Interests: Post-colonial literature and cultural studies focusing on gender and comparative feminist theory; Caribbean; Disability Studies; LGBTQ studies; and sexuality.
Sergio Rigoletto
Associate Professor of Cinema Studies and Italian
Email: srigolet@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4033
Office: 424 Friendly Hall
Daniel Rosenberg
Professor
History
Email: dbr@uoregon.edu
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
Research Interests: Intellectual History, Enlightenment Europe, History of Information, History of Science and Technology
Beata Stawarska
Professor of Philosophy
Director of Graduate Studies for Advising/Curriculum Committee/GTF Appointment Committee/Graduate Placing Committee/Graduate Philosophy Club
Black Studies, Philosophy
Email: stawarsk@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5545
Office: 247 Susan Campbell Hall
Research Interests: Contemporary European Philosophy, Phenomenology, Structuralism and Post-Structuralism, Philosophical Psychology, Feminism
Michael Stern
Associate Professor of German & Scandinavian
Director of Undergraduate Studies Scandinavian
German & Scandinavian
Email: mjstern@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4126
Office: 204 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Spring 2023: Tuesdays and Thursdays 12:00pm-1:00pm and by appointment
Research Interests: Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Western European Intellectual History, African literature, film, and thought, 19th Century Scandinavian Literature.
Analisa Taylor
Associate Professor of Spanish
Romance Languages
Email: analisa@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-521-9762
Office: 326 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: On leave winter '23
Research 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
Professor of Philosophy
Committee on Diversity & Inclusiveness
Philosophy
Email: avallega@uoregon.edu
Office: 248 Susan Campbell Hall
Office Hours: Wednesday 2:30-4:30
Research Interests: Continental Philosophy (Deconstruction, Phenomenology, and Hermeneutics); Latin American Thought; Ancient Greek Philosophy. Aesthetic Philosophy. World philosophies.
Daniela Vallega-Neu
Professor of Philosophy
DGS for Admissions
Philosophy
Email: dneu@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5549
Office: 240 Susan Campbell Hall
Office Hours: Fall 2024: Mondays from 2:45-4:45pm or by appointment
Research Interests: 19th and 20th Century European Thought (especially Nietzsche, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Contemporary French thought); Phenomenology; Hermeneutics; Deconstruction; Ontology related to issues of body.
Yugen Wang
Professor, Chinese Literature, Department Head
East Asian Languages
Email: ygwang@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3503
Office: 304 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Fall 2024, WED 3-5 pm
Elizabeth (Betsy) Wheeler
Professor
Comics and Cartoon Studies, Disability Studies, English
Email: ewheeler@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3929
Office: 238 PLC
Office Hours: Spring Term: MW 2:30-4pm in person (drop-in or by appt.) or on Zoom by appt. (email for appt.)
Research Interests: Disability Studies, Comics and Cartoon Studies, American Studies, Postmodern and Contemporary Literary Studies, Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity
Daniel Wojcik
Professor
English, Folklore Program
Email: dwojcik@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3946
Office: 463 PLC
Office Hours: Spring Term: MR 12-1:30pm
Research Interests: Cultural Studies, Folklore Studies, Religion & Mythology