English Faculty
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.