English GTF
Hessam Abedini
Comparative Literature Graduate Student/ ENG GE
Comparative Literature, English
Email: habedini@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541.346.2243
Office: 316 PLC
Office Hours: Spring Term: TR 9-10:30am
Research Interests: Indo-European Epic Poetry (Persian, Classical Greek and Latin, English); Comparative Mythology and Religion; Translation Studies and Comparative Philology; Colonial and Postcolonial Literary Studies; World Cinema, especially Iranian Film
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
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
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 memory, science communication
Troy Hassinger
English Graduate Student / GE
English
Email: troyhass@uoregon.edu
Office: 258 PLC
Office Hours: Fall Term: (Friday) 9am - noon
Research Interests: History of Reading, Reader Response Criticism, Book History, American literature and culture
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
Frida Heitland
English Graduate Student / GE
Digital Humanities, English
Email: fheitlan@uoregon.edu
Office: 315 PLC
Office Hours: Fall Term 2024: Friday 10am-noon. Sign up via my bookings https://tinyurl.com/yc9cytt8
Research Interests: Comics Studies, Environmental Humanities, Media Theory, Film Studies, Digital Humanities
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.
Nat Ivy
Graduate Student
English, Folklore Program
Email: nativy@uoregon.edu
Office: PLC 465
Office Hours: Mondays and Wednesdays in-person 2:00-3:00, Fridays on Zoom 2:00-3:00, and by appointment
Research Interests: 19th Century Appalachia and the American South, Social History, Media Sensationalization, Folklore and the Law, American Balladry, 19th Century Gender and Racial Politics
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
Chutong Liu
Comparative Literature Graduate Student/ ENG GE
Comparative Literature, English, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies
Email: chutongl@uoregon.edu
Office: 21 PLC
Office Hours: Spring Term: MW 1-2pm
Research Interests: Russian literature and ballet in the second half of the 19th-century, Silver Age of Russian poetry, 20th-century Soviet and Chinese Socialist Realism
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
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
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
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.
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
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
Ryan Walker
Graduate Student, Department of Comparative Literature
Comparative Literature, English
Email: rwalker9@uoregon.edu
Office: 316 PLC
Office Hours: Mondays 11-12 & Wednesdays 10-12
Research Interests: Ancient Greek & Latin literatures; English & German Romanticism; Mythology, Philosophy, & Literature; Classical Reception; Poetics; Criticism & Theory; Epics, "National Epics"; Literature of Empire; Secularization; magic and (dis)enchantment in modernity
Hannah Zeller
English Graduate Student / GE
Assistant Director of Graduate Studies
English
Email: hzeller@uoregon.edu
Phone: 5413460529
Office: 209 PLC
Office Hours: Fall Term (Week 7-Week 10): Friday 10am- 2pm and by appointment.
Research Interests: Post 1970 American Fantasy; Comics; Care Theory; Gender and Sexuality Studies; Black Feminism; Critical University Studies; Queer of Color Critique