English Faculty
Stacy Alaimo
Professor of English
Core Faculty in Environmental Studies; Director of Graduate Studies for English Department
English, Environmental Studies
Email: salaimo@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1476
Office: 205 PLC
Office Hours: Spring Term: M 9am-1pm (in person); T 3-5pm (Zoom only, email for appt and link)
Research Interests: Environmental Humanities, Posthumanities/New Materialism, American Studies, Cultural Studies, Literary and Critical Th,Postmodern and Contemporary Literary Studies, Visual Culture, Race, Ethnicity, and Indignity, Gender, Sexuality, Queer and Trans Studies
Faith Barter
Assistant Professor
Black Studies, English
Email: fbarter@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1510
Office: 320 PLC
Office Hours: Spring Term: TR 4-5pm (in person or Zoom); W 1:30-2:30 (Zoom only). You must sign up at dr-barter.youcanbook.me
Research Interests: African American Literary and Cultural Studies, 19th-Century American Literary Studies, Cultural Studies
Martha Bayless
Professor, English
Director, Folklore and Public Culture
English, Folklore Program, Food Studies, Humanities Program, Medieval Studies
Email: mjbayles@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3930
Office: 344 PLC, 1286 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286
Office Hours: Not teaching Spring 2024, available by email every weekday
Research Interests: Folklore, Medieval Studies, Cultural Studies, Food Studies
Carolyn Bergquist
Senior Lecturer
English
Email: cjb@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-2695
Office: 243 PLC, 1286 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286
Office Hours: Not teaching Spring 2024, checking email regularly until mid-May
Elizabeth Bohls
Professor
English, SAIL
Email: ebohls@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5484
Office: 263 PLC, 1286 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286
Office Hours: Spring Term: MW 12:15-1:45pm & by appt.
Research Interests: Colonial, Settler Colonial, and Postcolonial Studies, Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity, Cultural Studies, Feminism Studies, Restoration and 18th Century Literary Studies, Travel Writing
Lara Bovilsky
Associate Professor
College Scholars, English, SAIL
Email: bovilsky@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1309
Office: 246 PLC, 1286 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286
Office Hours: Spring Term: M 9:30-11am, R 10-11am & by appt.
Research Interests: Renaissance/Early Modern Literary Studies, Race Ethnicity and Indigeneity, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Poetry and Poetics, Drama and Performance Studies
Marcel Brousseau
Courtesy Assistant Professor
Comics and Cartoon Studies, Digital Humanities, English
Email: mbrousse@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3967
Office: 317 PLC
Kirby Brown
Associate Professor, English
Director, Native American and Studies (NAIS)
English, Native American Studies, SAIL
Email: kbrown@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5819
Office: 330 PLC, 1286 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286
Office Hours: Fall 2024: M: 3-5 pm, W: 9-10 am, and by email appt. (or schedule here: https://calendly.com/kirbybrown/officehours)
Research Interests: Native American and Indigenous Literary and Cultural Studies; Race, Ethnicity, & Indigeneity; Cultural Studies; Modernism Studies; Genre Studies
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
Kristy Bryant-Berg
Senior Instructor
Associate Director, Compostion Program
English
Email: kbryantb@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3975
Office: 343 PLC, 1286 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286
Office Hours: Summer term: WED 9:30-11:00 or by appt. via Zoom
Mattie Burkert
Associate Professor
Director, Minor in Digital Humanities
Digital Humanities, English
Email: mburkert@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0272
Office: 235 PLC
Office Hours: Fall 2024: Mondays, 1-4pm (schedule an appointment at https://tinyurl.com/burkert-office-hours)
Research Interests: Digital Humanities, New Media, Theater and Performance Studies, Restoration and 18th Century Literature and Culture, Histories of Science and Technology, Economic History and Criticism, Gender and Sexuality, Disability
Anna Carroll
Senior Instructor
English
Email: acarroll@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1518
Office: 301H Tykeson Hall
Office Hours: Spring Term: MWF 11-11:50am & by appt.
Ulrick Casimir
Career Instructor
Clark Honors College, English
Email: ucasimir@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3977
Office: 208 Chapman Hall
Office Hours: On sabbatical through Fall 2024—please contact the Clark Honors College front desk for more information.
Mai-Lin Cheng
Associate Professor
English
Email: cheng@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0123
Office: 371 PLC
Office Hours: Fall Term: Mondays 12:00-1:30 pm for drop-in hours; Mondays 1:30-3:00 by appt. (email 24 hours in advance for appt.)
Research Interests: 19th-Century Literary Studies
Stephanie Clark
Associate Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies; Director/Advisor, Medieval Studies Program
English, Medieval Studies
Email: sclark11@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3960
Office: 374 PLC, 1286 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286
Office Hours: Fall 2024: M 3-5, F 3-4, and by appt.
Research Interests: Medieval Literary and Cultural Studies, Old English, Religion and Mythology, Gift Theory
José Cortez
Assistant Professor
Director of Latinx Studies
CLLAS, Digital Humanities, Disability Studies, English, Latinx
Email: jcortez3@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0069
Office: 319 PLC
Office Hours: Fall Term: MF 3:00pm-3:50pm
Research Interests: Critical Theory, Rhetoric, Latinx Studies
James Crosswhite
Professor
English
Email: jcross@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3956
Office: 258 PLC, 1286 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286
Office Hours: Not teaching Spring 2024, available by email
Research Interests: Environmental Humanities, Literary and Critical Theory, Poetry and Poetics, Rhetoric, Composition, and Composition Pedagogy
Brent Dawson
Associate Professor
English
Email: bdawson@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3962
Office: 473 PLC
Office Hours: Not teaching Spring 2024, available by email
Research Interests: Drama and Performance Studies, Renaissance/Early Modern Literary Studies
Rachel Eccleston
Career Instructor
English
Email: rachele@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1532
Office: 301A Tykeson Hall
Office Hours: Spring Term: TR 2-3:30pm
Research Interests: Early Modern Literature; Martyrdom & Resurrection; Divinatory Poetics
Sophie Ell
Career Instructor
English
Email: sell2@uoregon.edu
Office: 301-B TYKE
Office Hours: Fall Term: TTH 12:30-2:00pm (and by appointment)
Yewulsew Endalew
Instructor of Composition
College of Arts and Sciences, English
Email: yewulsew@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0934
Office: 310 Villard Hall
Office Hours: T 1:30-4:30
Research Interests: Nile-Basin Literature, African studies, hydro-politics, hydro-poetics, eco-poetics, decolonial poetics, Literary criticism, history & philosophy in literature, folklore, translation studies, Ethiopian Studies
Cassandra Galentine
Career Instructor
English
Email: cassieg@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1496
Office: 335 PLC
Office Hours: Fall 24: M/W 1-2:30pm and by appointment
Research Interests: Women's Working-Class Literature, Multiethnic U.S. Literature, Environmental Justice, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
Moe Gámez
English Graduate Student / GE
English
Email: mog@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3921
Office: PLC 211
Office Hours: Winter 2024 Office hours: Wednesdays 8:30am-10:30am, Thursdays 10:30-11:30am, & by appointment
Research Interests: Latinx literature & cultural production, queer and trans of color studies, critical environmental humanities
Miriam Gershow
Senior Instructor II
English
Email: mgershow@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0051
Office: 237 PLC, 1286 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286
Office Hours: Spring Term: W 1-2:30pm, F 11am-12:30pm (Zoom link: https://uoregon.zoom.us/my/mgershow)
Molly Hatay
Career Instructor
English
Email: mhatay@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5428
Office: PLC 266
Office Hours: Spring Term: MW 10-11:30am
Research Interests: Jewish American literature, food studies, and medical humanities
Salvador Herrera
Assistant Professor of English
English
Email: salh@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1342
Office: 327 PLC
Office Hours: By appointment
Research Interests: American Studies, Drama and Performance Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Latino/a Studies, Literature of the Americas, Contemporary Literary Studies, Queer and Trans Studies, Race and Ethnicity
Helen Huang
Career Instructor
Digital Humanities, English
Email: yhuang@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1542
Office: 301C Tykeson Hall
Office Hours: Fall term: Tues and Thurs 2p-330p
Mat Johnson
Professor
The Philip H. Knight Chair of the Humanities
Comics and Cartoon Studies, Creative Writing Program, English
Phone: 541-346-0547
Office: 207 Alder Bldg.
Office Hours: Not teaching Spring 2024
Stephanie Jones
Assistant Professor
Digital Humanities, English
Email: drsjones@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1344
Junha Jung
Career Instructor
English
Email: junhaj@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1325
Office: 328 PLC
Office Hours: Fall Term: MW 10:00-11:30 am & by appt.
Research Interests: Multiethnic American Literature, Anthropology and Literature, Multimodal Composition
Heidi Kaufman
Associate Professor
English
Email: hkaufman@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3932
Office: 327 PLC, 1286 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286
Office Hours: Spring Term: F 10am-1pm & by appt.
Kate Kelp-Stebbins
Associate Professor
Comics and Cartoon Studies, Digital Humanities, English
Email: kkelp@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1520
Office: 333 PLC
Office Hours: Summer term: Thursday 12-3pm via Zoom
Research Interests: Colonial, Settler Colonial, and Postcolonial Studies, Comics and Cartoon Studies, Digital Humanities, Feminism Studies, Film, Television, and Media Studies, Postmodern and Contemporary Literary Studies, Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity
Addy Koneval
Career Instructor
English
Email: akoneval@uoregon.edu
Office: TYK 301K
Office Hours: Spring Term: In person MW 10:30am-12pm; Online R 2-3:30pm
Anna Kovalchuk
Senior Instructor I
English
Email: annak@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1532
Office: 301A Tykeson Hall
Office Hours: Fall Term: Weds 12-3 & by appt.
Research Interests: national narratives, comparative and world literature, Cossack history, Ukrainian and Russian literature
Stephanie LeMenager
Professor of English, Faculty Affiliate in Environmental Studies
Barbara and Carlisle Moore Professor 2014-2024
English, Environmental Studies
Email: slemen@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3966
Office: 457 PLC, 1286 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286
Office Hours: Spring Term: M 3-4:30pm & by appt.
Research Interests: 19th Century American Literary Studies, Environmental Humanities, Postmodern and Contemporary Literary Studies
Allison McGuffie
Instructor
African Studies, Digital Humanities, English, Cinema Studies
Email: mcguffie@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3965
Office: 329 PLC
Quinn Miller
Associate Professor
Digital Humanities, English
Email: qmmiller@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3978
Office: 447 PLC, 1286 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286
Office Hours: Fall Term: T 2-5pm
Sarah Preston
Career Instructor
English
Email: spreston@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1520
Office: 210 PLC
Office Hours: Fall term: MON 2pm-4pm; TUES 11:15am – 12:15pm, or by appt.
Forest Pyle
Professor
Comics and Cartoon Studies, English
Email: trespyle@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3928
Office: 270 PLC, 1286 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286
Research Interests: 19th Century British Literary Studies, Comics and Cartoon Studies, Literary and Critical Theory, Poetry and Poetics, Postmodern and Contemporary Literary Studies, Visual Culture
Mark Quigley
Associate Professor
English
Email: mquigley@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1340
Office: 324 PLC, 1286 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1205
Office Hours: Fall Term: W 10:30am-1:30pm via Zoom (ID: 470-446-9397) & by appt.
Research Interests: Colonial, Settler Colonial, and Postcolonial Studies, Irish Literary Studies, Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity, Modernism Studies, Literary and Critical Theory, The Novel, Poetry and Poetics, Postmodern and Contemporary Literary Studies, Cultural Studies
Indy Recker
Career Instructor
English
Email: irecker@uoregon.edu
Office: TYKE 301C
Office Hours: Fall Term: TR 4:30-5:30pm, W 12-3pm
Christopher Roethle
Instructor Pro-Tem
English
Email: croethle@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3924
Office: 19 PLC
Office Hours: Fall 2024: Mondays and Fridays 1-2:30pm, and gladly by appointment
Research Interests: Composition, Poety and Poetics, Comics Studies
Stephen Rust
Senior Instructor
Digital Humanities, English, SAIL
Email: srust@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0058
Office: 239 PLC, 1286 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286
Office Hours: Spring Term: TR 10-11:30am Zoom only (email for link)
Ben Saunders
Professor
Director, Comics and Cartoon Studies Minor
Comics and Cartoon Studies, English
Email: ben@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0062
Office: 273 PLC, 1286 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286
Office Hours: Not teaching Spring 2024, no office hours
Research Interests: Early Modern Poetry and Drama, Comics Studies, Anglo-American Poetry and Poetics, Critical Theory (Marxism, Queer Theory, Genre Theory), Genre Fictions (Crime, Horror, and Science Fiction)
Gordon Sayre
Professor
English, Folklore Program
Email: gsayre@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1313
Office: 472 PLC, 1286 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286
Office Hours: Fall term 2024: Tuesdays 1-3 pm; Wednesdays 2-3 pm
Research Interests: Folkore, Environmental Humanities, Colonial American Literature, Automobility and Car Cultures, Indigenous Studies
Rebecca Schuman
Career Instructor of English
Composition Program
English, German & Scandinavian
Email: rschuman@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1326
Office: PLC 275
Office Hours: Fall 2024: MW 1200-1300 (Zoom); TTh 1530-1700 (in-person)
Leslie Selcer
Pro Tem Instructor - English
English
Email: lselcer@uoregon.edu
Office: 22 PLC
Office Hours: Fall 2024 - MW 11:30am-1:00pm
Research Interests: digital cultural studies; intersectional feminist studies; far-right political extremism; conspiracy cultures
Steven Shankman
Professor Emeritus
UNESCO Chair in Transcultural Studies, Interreligious Dialogue, and Peace
English
Email: shankman@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3997
Office: 373 PLC, 1286 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286
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
Emily Simnitt
Senior Instructor
Interim Director Compositon Program; Director, WSCR Minor
Digital Humanities, English, SAIL
Email: esimnitt@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3517
Office: 301E Tykeson Hall
Office Hours: Spring Term: In person T 3-4pm, W 11am-12pm; Zoom F 3-4pm
Research Interests: digital rhetoric, civic engagement, first year writing
Bjorn Smars
Senior Instructor
Assistant Department Head of English
English
Email: smars@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3977
Office: 223 PLC
Office Hours: Fall Term 2024: MW in person 9:00am-11:30am; on Zoom by appt.
Bennet Smith
Career Instructor
English
Email: bennets@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1518
Office: 301-H TYKE
Office Hours: Fall Term: TR 1:30pm - 3:00pm
Helen Southworth
Professor
Digital Humanities, English
Email: helen@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3940
Office: 275 PLC
Office Hours: Not teaching Spring 2024
Research Interests: Modernism, Virginia Woolf, Life-Writing, Archives, Digital Humanities, Book History, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Visual Culture, Comics and Cartoon Studies
Michelle Stuckey
Director of Composition
Senior Instructor I
English
Email: stuckey@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1250
Office: 301F Tykeson Hall
Research Interests: Rhetoric and Composition, Writing Program Administration, Digital Pedagogy, Feminist Theory, Disability Studies
Laurel Sturgis O'Coyne
Instructor of Composition
English
Email: lsturgis@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0934
Office: 310 Villard Hall
Office Hours: Not teaching in ENG Spring 2024
Research Interests: Hemispheric American literatures, Eco-criticism and environmental literatures, Indigenous studies, translation studies, women and gender studies, post-colonial theory and literatures, food studies, memory and temporality.
Thomas C. Tasker
Senior Instructor I
Senior Instructor I
American English Institute, English
Email: ttasker@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3945
Office: 301K Tykeson Hall
Office Hours: Spring Term: TR 3:30-5pm
Jalen Thompson
Instructor
English
Email: jalent@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0528
Office: 323 PLC
Research Interests: reality television | media studies | film studies | black feminism | black studies | gender and sexuality/masculinity studies | queer theory
Courtney Thorsson
Professor, English
Faculty Fellow, Clark Honors College
Clark Honors College, English
Email: thorsson@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1473
Office: 244 PLC, 1286 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286
Office Hours: On leave 2024-2025
Research Interests: African American Literary and Cultural Studies
Avinnash P. Tiwari
Instructor
English
Email: apt@uoregon.edu
Office: 318 PLC
Research Interests: Black Studies, African American Literature, Writing Composition and Rhetoric, Education Studies.
Corbett Upton
Senior Instructor
Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies
English
Email: cupton@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3961
Office: 375 PLC, 1286 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286
Office Hours: Spring Term: T 1-3pm (in office), R 1-3pm (on Zoom, ID: 967 8951 2202) & by appt.
Angela Waddell
Career Instructor
English
Email: awaddell@uoregon.edu
Phone: Email is best
Office: TYK 301 D
Office Hours: Fall 2024: T: 9am - 9:30, 2pm - 3:30pm; TH: 2pm - 3pm
Research Interests: Rhetoric, Community Teaching
Eleanor Wakefield
Career Instructor
English
Email: ewakefie@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0055
Office: 301B Tykeson Hall
Office Hours: Spring Term: M 1-2pm, R 1-3pm, & by appt.
Sarah D. Wald
Associate Professor, Environmental Studies & English
Director of Graduate Admissions for English
English, Environmental Studies, Food Studies, IRES, Latinx
Email: sdwald@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1613
Office: 443 PLC
Office Hours: Spring Term: Wednesday, 12:30pm-2:30pm PLC 443
Research Interests: Environmental Justice, Environmental Humanities, Asian American Literary and Cultural Studies, Latinx Literary and Cultural Studies, Food Studies, Farmworker Justice, Immigration/Migration, 20/21st Century US Literature, American Studies
Mark Whalan
Professor
Head of English, Horn Endowed Professor
English
Email: whalan@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3926
Office: 207 PLC, 1286 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286
Office Hours: By appointment
Research Interests: African American Literary Studies, American Studies, Modernism Studies, Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity
Elizabeth (Betsy) Wheeler
Professor
Comics and Cartoon Studies, Disability Studies, English
Email: ewheeler@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3929
Office: 238 PLC, 1286 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286
Office Hours: Spring Term: MW 2:30-4pm in person (drop-in or by appt.) or on Zoom by appt. (email for appt.)
Research Interests: Disability Studies, Comics and Cartoon Studies, American Studies, Postmodern and Contemporary Literary Studies, Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity
Jenée Wilde
Senior Instructor of English
CSWS Dissemination Specialist
English
Email: jenee@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-8033
Office: 331 PLC
Office Hours: Fall 2024 Term: TR 10-1:30 am or by appt.
Research Interests: gender and sexuality studies, queer studies, science fiction, folklore, popular culture, creative nonfiction writing
John Witte
Senior Instructor Emeritus
English
Email: jwitte@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: Checking email intermittently
Daniel Wojcik
Professor
English, Folklore Program
Email: dwojcik@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3946
Office: 463 PLC, 1286 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286
Office Hours: Fall Term: Tues. & Thurs., 3:00-5:15 pm
Research Interests: Artistry & Expressive Culture, Ethnology & Folklore Studies, Mythology & Religious Culture
Henry Wonham
Professor
English
Email: wonham@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3266
Office: 454 Tykeson Hall
Office Hours: No office hours; available by email
Mary Wood
Professor
Disability Studies, English
Email: mewood@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3010
Office: 445 PLC, 1286 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286
Office Hours: Spring Term: R 12:30-2pm in person; W 4-5:30pm on Zoom (ID: 932 4715 9358)
Research Interests: 19th Century American Literary Studies, Autobiography Studies, Feminism Studies Gender and Sexuality Studies, Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity
Ana Zalyubovskiy
Career Instructor
English
Email: anaz@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1528
Office: 219 PLC
Office Hours: Spring Term: W 9-10am, R 9am-1pm & 3-4pm