Comparative Literature
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
Office: 257 PLC, 1286 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286
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
Professor
Comparative Literature, Cinema Studies
Email: sgopal@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5524
Office: 332 Villard Hall, 6223 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
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
Research Interests: nineteenth century French studies,Jewish studies,European studies,interdisciplinary studies in literature, music, dance
Anna Hall-Taylor
Comparative Literature Graduate Student/ GE
Comparative Literature
Email: ahalltay@uoregon.edu
Scott Hill
Operations Coordinator
Classics, Comparative Literature, Comparative Literature Journal, Digital Humanities, Disability Studies, English, Environmental Studies, Folklore Program, Humanities Program, Medieval Studies, Northwest Indian Language Institute, Philosophy, Religious Studies
Email: scotth1@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0355
Office Hours: M-F 8am-12pm and 1-5pm
Anna Hindley
Graduate Program 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, 1286 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
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, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: hokanson@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3947
Office: 357 PLC, 1249 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Office Hours: Fall 2026: Wednesdays and Fridays from 9:30-11 a.m. and by appointment.
Research Interests: 19th-century Russian literature, women's writing, and Russian colonialism.
Fatou Jobe
Comparative Literature Graduate Student/ENG GE
Comparative Literature, English
Email: fjobe@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: Mondays 1-4pm
Office: PLC 322
Research Interests: Film and Media studies, African cinema, African studies, Global South Studies.
Matthias Kramer
Comparative Literature Graduate Student
Comparative Literature
Email: mkramer@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: Wednesdays, 11:30-1:30
Research Interests: Speculative Thought and Speculative Fiction, Japanese and Anglophone Literature and Popular Media, Literary Translation, Queer Futurity
Marena Lear
Comparative Literature Graduate Student/ GE
Comparative Literature
Email: mlear@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1515
Office: 23 PLC
Research Interests: Interests: Latin American and Latinx film & media, decoloniality, new materialism, posthuman feminism, science fiction and gothic genre studies
Sophia Lewis
Comparative Literature Graduate Student/ GE
Comparative Literature
Email: slewis9@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: 19th century Russian literature, Japanese literature in the Meiji-era, Soviet literature, Kazakh literature, G.W.F. Hegel, sociology of literature, continental philosophy, dialectical thought, political economy
You Li
Comparative Literature
Email: youli@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Visual Arts, Affect Studies, Ethics of Care
Yei Won Lim
Comparative Literature Graduate Student/ GE
Comparative Literature
Email: ylim@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1307
Office: 215 PLC, 1286 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286
Chutong Liu
Comparative Literature Graduate Student/GE
Comparative Literature
Email: chutongl@uoregon.edu
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
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, 1286 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Office Hours: PLC: MTW 12:30-4pm, Remote: MTW 7am-11:30am and ThF 7:30am-4pm
Aishwarya Marathe
Comparative Literature Graduate Student/GE
Comparative Literature
Email: amarathe@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: R 11:30 a.m.-2 p.m., by appointment (Fall 2026)
Research Interests: contemporary diasporic literature and cinema in the US/UK/France, South Asian film and visual culture, gender studies, feminist theory/philosophy, epistemology, ethics, postcolonial/decolonial studies, poetics
Working Languages: French, Hindi, Urdu, Marathi, Persian
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.
Kit McDunn
Comparative Literature Graduate Student/GE
Comparative Literature
Email: kmcdunn@uoregon.edu
Office: 315 PLC
Office Hours: Fall Term: Tuesday and Thursday 11:30am-1pm and 3:30pm-5pm
Research Interests: Ecology in Soviet and post-Soviet science fiction; representations of mutancy and damage to organic bodies and landscapes; posthumanism; environmental humanities; contemporary Russian and Ukrainian science fiction
Susan Meyers
Faculty Support Specialist ASU 3
Arabic Studies, Classics, Comparative Literature, English, Folklore Program, Humanities Program, Judaic Studies Program, Medieval Studies, Philosophy, Religious Studies, Environmental Studies
Email: susani@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1516
Office: 338 PLC
Office Hours: M-W:7:30-4:30, R: Remote 7:30-4:30, F: Remote 7:30-2:00