Comparative Literature Faculty
Dawn Marlan
Teaching Professor
COLT Director of Undergraduate Studies
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.
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: F 2025 Thursdays 11 a.m.-noon, 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, College of Arts and Sciences
Email: lmillar@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4031
Office Hours: Fall, 2025: By appointment. Please email.
Research Interests: 20th-21st Century Caribbean Literature, Latin American Literature, African Literature, Lusophone Literatures, Global South Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Race and Blackness, Critical Theory