English
Shama Jan Sama
English Graduate Student / GE
English
Email: shamaj@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: Fall Term: Wednesday 8:30 am- 11:30am
Ben Saunders
Professor
Director, Comics and Cartoon Studies Minor
Comics and Cartoon Studies, English, Clark Honors College
Email: ben@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0062
Office: 257 PLC, 1286 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286
Office Hours: Fall 2026, Wednesdays 11am-noon and 1-3pm 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
David Schmunk
Interim Faculy Support Coordinator, ASU #3
Classics, English, Folklore Program, Humanities Program, Philosophy
Email: schmunkd@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5053
Office: PLC 311, 1286 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Office Hours: 7:30 am to 4:00 pm
Kisa Schultz
English Graduate Student/ GE
English
Email: kisas@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: Mon/Fri 12:15 - 1:45pm
Research Interests: New Media, Video Game Studies, Film & TV Studies, Comics Studies, Queer Studies
Rebecca Schultz
Composition Program Coordinator
English
Email: schultzr@uoregon.edu
Office: 301F Tykeson Hall, 1286 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Office Hours: Zoom Appt. Only (24 hr. notice)
Rebecca Schuman
Assistant Teaching Professor of English
Composition Program
English
Email: rschuman@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1326
Office Hours: For safety reasons, please email me for office hours and office location.
Sarina Schwartz
English Graduate Student/ GE
English
Email: sarinasc@uoregon.edu
Office: PLC 209
Office Hours: Tuesdays 10:00-11:30 and Fridays 12:00-1:30 in person or by appointment (email if you’d like to request Zoom).
Research Interests: 19th-century British Literature with an emphasis in Romanticism; ecological theory; drama & performance
Leslie Selcer
Instructor - English, WGSS
English, Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies
Email: lselcer@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: Summer Term 2026
Wednesdays 2-5pm
See syllabus for virtual 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
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
Rebeca Silva Rivera
English Graduate Student
College of Arts and Sciences, English
Email: rsilvari@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-8867
Office: 401B Tykeson Hall, 1245 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1245
Emily Simnitt
Teaching Professor
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: W 10-12, 301E Tykeson
F 3-4, Zoom (email for link)
Research Interests: digital rhetoric, civic engagement, first-year writing
Bjorn Smars
Associate Teaching Professor
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: Spring Term 2026: Tuesdays and Thursdays 12:00pm to 1:30pm, or by appointment
Bennet Smith
Assistant Teaching Professor
English
Email: bennets@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1588
Office Hours: Fall Term: In-person Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9 a.m. - 10 a.m.
Zoom: Wednesdays from 9 a.m. - 10 a.m.
Or: by appointment!
Lou Smith
English Graduate Student/ GE
English
Email: maggs@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: Thursdays 2-4pm and Fridays 10-11am
Rosa Smith
English Graduate Student / GE
English
Email: ris@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0529
Office: 261 PLC
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