English Faculty
Allison McGuffie
Instructor
African Studies, Digital Humanities, English, Cinema Studies
Email: mcguffie@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3965
Office: 329 PLC, 1286 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286
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: by appointment
Sarah Preston
Career Instructor
Dr.
English
Email: spreston@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1520
Office: 210 PLC, 1286 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286
Office Hours: Fall term: Tuesdays 2pm-3pm; Wednesdays 12:30am – 2:30pm, or by appointment
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: Spring Term: W 4:00-5:30, R 12:30-2:00 & 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
Phone: 541-346-1576
Office Hours: 2025 Spring Term: MF 9am-11am, TR 10am-12pm (Zoom)
Christopher Roethle
Instructor Pro-Tem
English
Email: croethle@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: Fall 2025: Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays 11am-12pm, 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: Winter 2025<br />
Tuesday 9:30-11:00am via Zoom<br />
Thursday 11:00am-12:30pm via Zoom<br />
Email srust@uoregon.edu for Zoom 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: 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
Instructor/Assistant Teaching Professor of English
Composition Program
English
Email: rschuman@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1326
Office Hours: Spring 2025: MWF 1200-1300
Leslie Selcer
Instructor - English, WGSS
English
Email: lselcer@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: Fall 2025<br />
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MF 11am-12:30pm in HEN 211A<br />
W 11am-12:30pm over zoom (see syllabus for link)
Research Interests: digital cultural studies; intersectional feminism; online conspiracy theories
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, 1286 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286
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, 1286 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286
Office Hours: Winter Term 2025: MW in person & on Zoom 9:00am-11:30am; or by appointment
Bennet Smith
Assistant Teaching Professor
English
Email: bennets@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1588
Office: 301-H TYKE
Office Hours: Fall Term: TR 9 a.m. - 10 a.m.; W 9 a.m. - 10 a.m. (Zoom); and by appointment.
Helen Southworth
Professor
Digital Humanities, English
Email: helen@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3940
Office: 275 PLC, 1286 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286
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 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.