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: Winter 2025, Tuesdays 3.30pm-5.30pm or by appointment
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
Email: rschuman@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1326
Office: PLC 275
Office Hours: Winter 2025: MW 10-11 (in-person, drop-in), T 11-1 (Zoom, appts preferred) + additional appts also available
Leslie Selcer
Instructor - English
English
Email: lselcer@uoregon.edu
Office: 022 PLC
Office Hours: Winter 2025 - Tuesdays & Thursdays 1pm-3pm
Research Interests: digital cultural studies; intersectional feminist studies; far-right political extremism; conspiracism
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 II
Director, WSCR Minor
Digital Humanities, English, SAIL
Email: esimnitt@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3517
Office: 301E Tykeson Hall
Office Hours: On sabbatical AY 2024-2025
Research Interests: digital rhetoric, civic engagement, first-year writing
Bjorn Smars
Senior Instructor I
Assistant Department Head of English
English
Email: smars@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3977
Office: 223 PLC
Office Hours: Winter Term 2025: MW in person & on Zoom 9:00am-11:30am; or by appointment
Bennet Smith
Career Instructor
English
Email: bennets@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1518
Office: 301-H TYKE
Office Hours: Winter Term: MW noon - 1:30 and by appointment.
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
Office Hours: Monday 2-3 in 301F Tykeson Hall and by appointment
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.