Comparative Literature Faculty
Aycan Akcamete
Assistant Professor
Comparative Literature, 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, 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
Comics and Cartoon Studies, Comparative Literature, Middle East and North African Studies, Cinema Studies
Email: mallan@uoregon.edu
Office: 358 PLC
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
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
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
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
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
Office Hours: Winter 2025: Tuesdays 12:00pm-2:00 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
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
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
Office Hours: Winter 2025: Mondays from 10-12, Thursdays from 12-2 and by appointment.
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, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish
Email: middlebr@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3103
Office: 355 PLC Hall
Office Hours: W 2025 Friday 10:15-11:45 a.m. 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: Winter, 2025: in person, Tues. and Thurs. 2-3, 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
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: Winter 2025: Tues. and Thurs. 11:30-12:30 or by appt.
Research Interests: Russian modernism; gender studies; environmental criticism; visual culture; digital humanities; Russian-Italian cultural interactions; and Russian American culture
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