Comparative Literature
Ibrahim Muhawi
Courtesy Professor of Comparative Literature
Comparative Literature, Translation Studies
Email: muhawi@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Palestinian and Arabic literature and folklore, translation and poetics
Mariam Nadeem
Comparative Literature Graduate Student/GE
Raymund Fellow
Comparative Literature
Email: mariamn@uoregon.edu
Office: 310 Villard Hall, 5242 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-5242
Office Hours: Spring Term: MW 10-11:30am
Research Interests: De-colonial and feminist poetics in English, Urdu and Arabic literature, narrative identity and subject-formation, religion and secularism, existentialism, phenomenology and critical theory
Zachary Nickels
Comparative Literature Graduate Student/ENG GE
Philosophy Graduate Student
Comparative Literature, English
Email: znickels@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Continental Philosophy (Deconstruction, Phenomenology & Hermeneutics); Aesthetics; Greek Tragedy; Hegel & German Idealism; Theories of Desire; Psychoanalysis; Poetry & Poetics; Literary Theory; 20th and 21st Century Poetry; Postmodern Fiction
Amanda Powell
Comparative Literature Graduate Student/ GE
PhD Candidate
Comparative Literature
Email: apowell3@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0050
Office: 304 PLC
Office Hours: Spring Term: M 12-1:30pm, W 3:30-5pm
Research Interests: mad studies, 20th-21st century Latinx poetry, British modernism;
Dissertation: Madness as a Disease of Language
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: Fall 2025: Wed. and Fri. 10:50-11:50 a.m. or by appt.
Research Interests: Modernism, Gender Studies, Environmental Criticism, Visual Culture, Digital Humanities, Russian-Italian Cultural Interactions, and Immigrant Arts
Gina Psaki
Professor Emerita of Italian
Professor, Romance Languages
Comparative Literature, Medieval Studies, Romance Languages
Email: rpsaki@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4042
Office: 224 Friendly Hall, 1233 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1233
Research Interests: Italian and French literature of the Middle Ages; comparative medieval literature; medieval lyric and romance; Dante; Boccaccio; translation; medieval feminist scholarship; discourse analysis; metadisciplinary issues in medieval literary study; history of
Feba Rasheed
Comparative Literature Graduate Student/ GE
Comparative Literature
Email: frasheed@uoregon.edu
Office: 310 Villard Hall, 5242 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-5242
Research Interests: Ethnography; World literature; Partition Studies; Tradition, Law and Feminism in India
Untara Rayeesa
Comparative Literature Graduate Student/ GE
Comparative Literature
Email: urayeesa@uoregon.edu
Office: 310 Villard Hall, 5242 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-5242
Office Hours: Spring Term: MW 1-3pm
Research Interests: Critical Theory, Postcolonial Studies, Anglophone Postcolonial Literature, South Asian Literature and Popular Culture, Women's Writing, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Carol Silverman
Professor Emeritus
Anthropology, Comparative Literature, Folklore Program, Judaic Studies Program, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies
Email: csilverm@uoregon.edu
Office Hours:
Research Interests: Arts and human rights, music, Balkans, Roma, gender, ritual
Jean-Baptiste Simonnet
Comparative Literature Graduate Student/ GE
Comparative Literature
Email: jsimonn3@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0054
Office: 234 PLC, 1286 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286
Office Hours: F 9-12
Tze-Yin Teo
Associate Professor of Comparative Literature
COLT Director of Graduate Studies
Comparative Literature
Email: tteo2@uoregon.edu
Office: 356 PLC, 1249 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Office Hours: By appointment
Christopher Toon
Office Generalist
Classics, College of Arts and Sciences, Comparative Literature, English, Folklore Program, Humanities Program, Medieval Studies, Philosophy, Religious Studies
Email: ctoon@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-2497
Office: 118 PLC, 1286 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Office Hours: M/T/W 8:30a-3:30p (in person)|Th/F 8:30a-3:30p (Remote)
Research Interests: B.S. Urban / Rural Sociology, Applied Anthropology
Ryan Walker
Comparative Literature Graduate Student/ ENG GE
Comparative Literature, English
Email: rwalker9@uoregon.edu
Office: 316 PLC
Office Hours: Mondays 11-12 & Wednesdays 10-12
Research Interests: Ancient Greek & Latin literatures; English & German Romanticism; Mythology, Philosophy, & Literature; Classical Reception; Poetics; Criticism & Theory; Epics, "National Epics"; Literature of Empire; Secularization; magic and (dis)enchantment in modernity
Nick Wirtz
Comparative Literature Graduate Student
Comparative Literature
Email: nwirtz@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0050
Office: 269 PLC, 1286 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286
Research Interests: Realisms and countervisuality, reference and materiality, comics, photography, history and autobiography, visual rhetoric, visual culture, media genealogy.
David Yorgesen
Operations Manager, ASU 3
Classics, Comparative Literature, Comparative Literature Journal, English, Folklore Program, Humanities Program, Medieval Studies, Philosophy, Religious Studies
Email: yorgesen@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1539
Office: 338 PLC, 1286 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Office Hours: In the office: 7:30 am – 4:30 pm, Monday - Wednesday. Remote office: 7:30 am – 4:30 pm, Thursday. 7:30 am – 4 pm, Friday