Comparative Literature Faculty
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
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
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
Kenneth Calhoon
Professor of Comparative Literature and German
Comparative Literature, German & Scandinavian
Email: kcalhoon@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4060
Office: 356 PLC
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
Email: rbc@uoregon.edu
Office: 426 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Fall 2024: Tuesdays 1:00pm-3:00 pm (email in advance appreciated)
Research Interests: Modern Chinese and Russian Literatures, Critical Theory, Formalism, Affect Studies, Sociolinguistic Literary Criticism
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
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.
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.
Leah Middlebrook
Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Spanish
Director, Oregon Humanities Center (OHC)
Comparative Literature, Romance Languages, Spanish
Email: middlebr@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3103
Office: 355 PLC Hall
Office Hours: on sabbatical leave F 2024
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: Fall, 2024: in person, MW 2-3, 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
Jenifer Presto
Associate Professor of Comparative Literature
Comparative Literature, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies
Email: presto@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-485-7400
Office: 346 PLC
Office Hours: Fall 2024: Mon. & Fri. 10:50-11:50 a.m. or by appt.
Research Interests: Russian modernism; gender studies; environmental criticism; visual culture; digital humanities; Russian-Italian cultural interactions; and Russian-American culture
Steven Shankman
Professor Emeritus
UNESCO Chair in Transcultural Studies, Interreligious Dialogue, and Peace
Comparative Literature, English
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
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