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; Religion in World Cinema
Seema Amin
Comparative Literature Graduate Student/ GE
Comparative Literature, English
Email: samin@uoregon.edu
Office: 310 Villard
Office Hours: Spring 2023 Office Hours: Wednesdays 2pm-3pm
Kieran Blokhuis
Folklore Graduate Student/ ENG GE
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: Winter term: Mondays 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 241
Office Hours: Winter 2025<br />
In-person office hours: M 2-4 pm, W 2-3 pm & by appointment<br />
Zoom meetings available upon request
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: 332 PLC
Office Hours: Winter Term '25: Tues 2-3:30PM & Weds 12-1:30PM, or by appt.
Research Interests: 20th & 21st c. Speculative Fiction, Weird Fiction, Sci-fi, Horror, Archival Studies
Megan Farmer
English Graduate Student/ GE
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: 241 PLC
Office Hours: Winter Term: Tuesdays 12-1pm & Fridays 9-10am (schedule an appt at https://emalydia.youcanbook.me/)
Research Interests: Black sexuality; porn studies; Black feminist theory; 20th and 21st century U.S. visual culture & popular media; African American literature
Moe Gámez
English Graduate Student / GE
English
Email: mog@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3921
Office: PLC 211
Office Hours: Winter 2024 Office hours: Tuesdays 1:30-2:30pm, Thursdays 1:30-3:30pm, & 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/ GE
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: Spring 2025: Tuesday 2-3PM by appointment
Research Interests: Land Back, critical whiteness studies, masculinity, eschatology, American environmental history/historiography, animal studies (carnivores), public memory, science communication
K Hadley
English Graduate Student/ GE
English
Email: khad@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3911
Office: English
Research Interests: media studies, horror, indigeneity, theatre, trans/gender/queer studies, critical cannibalism studies
Troy Hassinger
English Graduate Student / GE
English
Email: troyhass@uoregon.edu
Office: 258 PLC
Office Hours: Spring Term: (Friday) 9am - noon + Email for appt.
Research Interests: Book history, print culture studies, modernism / modernist literature
Jessie Heine
English Graduate Student / GE
GE in English & Composition
English
Email: jheine@uoregon.edu
Office: 241 PLC
Office Hours: Spring 25: T: 1:30-3:30 & R: 2:30-3:30 & by appointment.
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
Folklore Graduate Student/ ENG GE
English, Folklore Program
Email: lihi@uoregon.edu
Office: PLC 466
Office Hours: Office Hours for Spring 2025 Term: Tuesdays and Thursdays 2:15-3:45pm, or by appointment.
Research Interests: Roadside art, roadside attractions, artist-built environments, folk art, music subcultures
Chris Ivy
Ph.D. Candidate, English Department
English
Email: civy@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1548
Office: 328 PLC
Office Hours: Wed/Fri 1-2:30 PM over Zoom. I’m also happy to make individual appointments if you can’t meet during regular office hours. Please email me to set something up.
Research Interests: Comics and Cartoon Studies, Film History, Monsters/Monster Theory, Queer Theory, Gothic Fiction
Nat Ivy
Folklore Graduate Student/ ENG GE
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
Madison Kooba
English Graduate Student/ GE
English
Email: kooba@uoregon.edu
Office: PLC 269
Office Hours: Wednesdays 12pm - 1pm<br />
Fridays 11am - 1pm
Katheryne Laqua
English Graduate Student/ GE
English
Email: klaqua@uoregon.edu
Office: PLC 220
Office Hours: S25: Wednesday: 10:00am-11:30am, Thursday: 1:30pm-3:00pm (Zoom Only), and by appointment
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
Autumn Long
English Graduate Student/ GE
English
Email: along9@uoregon.edu
Office: Oregon Hall, Suite 300W
Madalynn Madigar
English Graduate Student/ GE
English
Email: mmadigar@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Indigenous Studies; Extraction Studies; Energy Humanities; Petrocultural Studies
Samantha Matalone Cook
Folklore Graduate Student/ ENG GE
Folklore Program, English
Email: samam@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: myth and mythic art, folk art, medieval art and material culture, social memory, migration, activism, feminism, ecocritical theory
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: Wednesday 1:30PM-2:30PM, Friday 11:00AM-1:00PM
Gowri Nair
English Graduate Student / GE
English
Email: gnair@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0528
Office: 321 PLC
Office Hours: Spring term: TR 10.00-11.00 am, and by appointment
Research Interests: Comics, Graphic Narratives, Visual Culture, Memoirs, Bildungsroman, Migration, Race, Trauma Studies, Literary and Critical Theory
Honor O'Sullivan
English Graduate Student / GE
English
Email: honoro@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3268
Office: PLC 214
Office Hours: Spring Term: MWF 9am-10am
Research Interests: Modernism, 20th Century Literature, Film, Surrealism, Race and Gender Theory
K Olivar
English Graduate Student / GE
English
Email: kolivar@uoregon.edu
Office: 220 PLC
Office Hours: Spring Term: MWF 1:00-2:00
Research Interests: Early Modern / Renaissance Literature, Drama, Disability Studies, Neurodiversity
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: Monday, Wednesday, and Friday 4:00-5:00 PM
Alix Roederer-Morin
Folklore Graduate Student/ENG GE
English, Folklore Program
Email: alixr@uoregon.edu
Shama Jan Sama
English Graduate Student / GE
English
Email: shamaj@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1368
Office: PLC 306
Office Hours: Spring Term: Wednesday 10am- 1pm<br />
Kisa Schultz
English Graduate Student/ GE
English
Email: kisas@uoregon.edu
Office: PLC 269
Office Hours: Mon, Weds, Thurs, Fri, 2-2:45pm & by appointment
Research Interests: film, TV, and media studies, 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: Spring Term: Thursdays 12.30-3.30 pm
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
Comparative Literature Graduate Student/ ENG GE
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: 541-346-0529
Office: 209 PLC
Office Hours: Spring Term:<br />
Email for appointment or zoom link.<br />
In office Mondays 9am-12pm, Fridays 12pm-3pm.
Research Interests: Post 1970 American Fantasy; Comics; Care Theory; Gender and Sexuality Studies; Black Feminism; Critical University Studies; Queer of Color Critique