English Graduate Students
Seema Amin
Graduate Student, Department of Comparative Literature
Comparative Literature, English
Email: samin@uoregon.edu
Office: 310 Villard
Office Hours: Spring 2023 Office Hours: Wednesdays 2pm-3pm
Kieran Blokhuis
Graduate Employee
English, Folklore Program
Email: kblokhui@uoregon.edu
Office: PLC 465
Office Hours: Monday 11:30 - 2:30
Research Interests: transgender, werewolf, art, social media, tumblr, monster, autism, narrative, film
Megan Butler
English Graduate Student / GE
English
Email: mbutler7@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0050
Office: 219 PLC
Office Hours: Fall Term: F 11:00 am-2:00 pm
Research Interests: 20th and 21st Century African American Literature
Amelia (Wan-Chi) Chen
English Graduate Student / GE
English
Email: achen11@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0050
Office: PLC 306
Office Hours: Spring Term: TR 2:30-4pm & by appt.
Selene Cheong
English Graduate Student / GE
English
Email: scheong@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0050
Office: 269 PLC
Office Hours: Spring Term: MW 1-2:30pm
Rachel Combs
English Graduate Student / GE
Research Assistant for MAPP: https://www.modernistarchives.com/
English
Email: rcombs@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0050
Office: 269 PLC
Office Hours: Spring Term: WF 11am-12:30pm & by appt.
Research Interests: 20th & 21st c. Speculative Fiction, Weird Fiction, Sci-fi, Horror, Whiteness Studies, Archival Studies
Rye Davies
English Graduate Student / GE
Digital Humanities, English
Email: rdavies8@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3915
Office: 321 PLC
Office Hours: Fall Term: MW 10:30am-12:00pm
Research Interests: Game Studies & Digital Humanities, Queer Studies, Disability Studies, Speculative Fictions of Color, Poetry
Megan Farmer
English Graduate Student
English
Email: mbf@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3911
Office: ASU3 English
Emalydia Flenory
English Graduate Student / GE
English
Email: emalydia@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0064
Office: 332 PLC
Office Hours: Spring Term: M 10am-12pm & F 12-1pm (schedule an appt at emalydia.youcanbook.me)
Research Interests: Black masculinity; sexuality studies; porn studies; Black feminist theory; U.S. popular culture
Alexa Foor
English Graduate Student
Editor in Chief, Ecotone
English, Environmental Studies
Email: afoor@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5057
Office: 144 Columbia Hall
Research Interests: Queer theory, Rural Studies, Indigenous Studies, Environmental Justice
Madison Fowler
ESSP Doctoral student/GE
English, Environmental Studies
Email: mfowlern@uoregon.edu
Office: UO Annex 128
Office Hours: Spring Term: W 1-4pm
Research Interests: Indigenous environmental literatures, public lands, U.S. national parks, LAND BACK!
Moe Gámez
English Graduate Student / GE
English
Email: mog@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3921
Office: PLC 211
Office Hours: Fall 2024: Office hours: Tuesdays 1:30-2:30pm, Thursdays 10:30-11:30am, Fridays 9:30-10:30am & by appointment
Research Interests: Latinx literature & cultural production, queer and trans of color studies, critical environmental humanities
Kathleen Gekiere
Environmental Studies Graduate Student
English Graduate Student
English, Environmental Studies
Email: kgekiere@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1496
Office: 254A Columbia
Office Hours: Tuesday 10 - 11 and by appointment.
Research Interests: Critical Animal Studies, Ecocriticism, Posthumanism,
Ava Guihama Olson
PhD Student / GE
English, Environmental Studies
Email: avaolson@uoregon.edu
Office: UO Annex 128
Office Hours: Wednesday 2:30-4:30 or by appointment
Research Interests: Land Back, critical whiteness studies, masculinity, eschatology, American environmental history/historiography, animal studies (carnivores), public history, science communication
Troy Hassinger
English Graduate Student/ GE
English
Email: troyhass@uoregon.edu
Office: 269 PLC
Office Hours: Spring Term: 10am-1pm
Travis Heeren
English Graduate Student / GE
English
Email: theeren@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0049
Office: 355 PLC
Office Hours: Spring Term: W 12-3pm
Jessie Heine
English Graduate Student / GE
English
Email: jheine@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3938
Office: 222 PLC
Office Hours: Fall 24: M&T 9-11 am & by appt.
Research Interests: African American Lit, Science Fiction, Black Feminist Theory, Science Studies, Environmental Humanities, Postcolonialities
Linnea Hill
Graduate Student
English, Folklore Program
Email: lihi@uoregon.edu
Office: PLC 466
Research Interests: Roadside art, roadside attractions, music subcultures, archaeology of ritual
Chris Ivy
English Graduate Student / GE
English
Email: civy@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1548
Office: 328 PLC
Office Hours: Spring Term: M 10am-12pm & by appt.
Shama Jan Sama
English Graduate Student / GE
English
Email: shamaj@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1368
Office: PLC 306
Office Hours: Fall Term: Friday 9am- 12pm
Holly Jones
English Graduate Student / GE
Graduate Teaching Fellow
English
Email: hjones12@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0064
Office: 332 PLC
Office Hours: Spring Term: MW 11:15am-1:45pm
Research Interests: Mid-Late 20th century Black American literature and culture, critical race theory, medical humanities, Afrofuturism, black popular culture, psychoanalytic theory, memoir/autobiography writing, Ethnic Studies and sound studies.
Katheryne Laqua
English Graduate Student
GE
English
Email: klaqua@uoregon.edu
Office: PLC 220
Office Hours: M: 10:00am-11:00am, T: 2:00pm-3:00pm, W: 2:00pm-3:00pm and by appointment
Rachael Lee
English Graduate Student
English, Environmental Studies
Email: rlee3@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0050
Office: 269 PLC
Madalynn Madigar
English Graduate Student/ GE
English
Email: mmadigar@uoregon.edu
Office: 269 PLC
Office Hours: Spring Term: T 9:30-10:30am, R 9:30-11:30am
Olivia Matsuoka
English Graduate Student / GE
Digital Humanities, English
Email: onm@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1368
Office: 322 PLC
Kit McDunn
Comparative Literature Graduate Student/ ENG GE
Comparative Literature, English
Email: kmcdunn@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0934
Office: 313B Villard Hall
Office Hours: Winter Term: Wednesday 12pm-3pm
Research Interests: climate fiction and the environmental humanities, literature in the nuclear age, disaster and revolution, Soviet literature, post-Soviet literature, Russian literature, Ukrainian literature
Samuel Miller
English Graduate Student/ GE
English
Email: smill@uoregon.edu
Office: PLC 314
Office Hours: Monday 10:00AM-12:00PM, Wednesday 10:00AM-11:00AM
Gowri Nair
English Graduate Student / GE
English
Email: gnair@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0528
Office: 321 PLC
Office Hours: Fall term: MT 2-3 pm or by appointment
Research Interests: Comics, Graphic Narratives, Human Rights
Alex Newsom
English Graduate Student
English
Email: anewsom@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0014
Office: 204 PLC
Research Interests: Modernism, Comics, Visual Culture, Comparative Media Analysis
Honor O'Sullivan
English Graduate Student / GE
English
Email: honoro@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3268
Office: PLC 214
Office Hours: Fall Term: MWF 10am-11am
Research Interests: Modernism, 20th Century Literature, Film, Surrealism, Race and Gender Theory
K Olivar
English Graduate Student / GE
English
Email: kolivar@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1314
Office: 220 PLC
Office Hours: Spring Term: M 12-1:30pm, W 3-4:30pm
Minyoung Park
English Graduate Student
English
Email: minyoung@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Modernism, 20th Century Anglophone Literature, The Novel, Medical Humanities, Feminist Theory, Fashion
Genevieve Pfeiffer
English Graduate Student / GE
English
Email: gpfeiffe@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0050
Office: PLC 348
Office Hours: Spring Term: MF 8-9:30am & by appt.
Maddie Pflueger
English Graduate Student / GE
English
Email: madilynp@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1314
Office: 220 PLC
Office Hours: Spring Term: MW 1:30-3pm
Research Interests: Graphic novels, Memoir, Disability studies, Medical humanities, Jewish literature & culture,
Ren Rader
English Graduate Student/ GE
English
Email: rader@uoregon.edu
Office: PLC 211
Office Hours: Tuesday and Thursday 2:00-3:30 pm
Kisa Schultz
Graduate Employee
English
Email: kisas@uoregon.edu
Office: PLC 269
Office Hours: MW 11-11:50, Fri 11-12:20, & by appointment
Research Interests: popular culture studies, queer studies, critical theory, cultural studies
Rebeca Silva Rivera
English Graduate Student
College of Arts and Sciences, English
Email: rsilvari@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-8867
Office: 401B Tykeson Hall
Anu Sugathan
English Graduate Student / GE
English
Email: asugatha@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0014
Office: PLC 315
Office Hours: Fall Term: W 2pm-3.30pm; R 3pm-4.30pm
Research Interests: Visual Culture, Comics Studies, Postcolonial Studies, South Asian Literature and Cinema
Ben Travers
English Graduate Student / GE
English
Email: btravers@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1513
Office: 20 PLC
Office Hours: Spring Term: F 10am-1pm