European Studies Affiliated Faculty
Alexander Dracobly
Senior Instructor II
College Scholars, History, Middle East and North African Studies, SAIL
Email: dracobly@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5910
Office: 329 McKenzie Hall, 1288 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1205
Office Hours: Spring 23: Wednesdays 10-11:30am & Thursdays 1:45-3:15pm
Evlyn Gould
Professor Emerita
College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor in Humanities
Comparative Literature, French, Judaic Studies Program, Romance Languages
Email: evgould@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: nineteenth century French studies,Jewish studies,European studies,interdisciplinary studies in literature, music, dance
Gantt Gurley
Associate Professor
Clark Honors College, Folklore Program, German & Scandinavian, Judaic Studies Program, Medieval Studies, School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: gantt@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4055
Office: 319 Friendly Hall, 1250 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1205
Office Hours: F 12-3 and/or by appointment
Research Interests: Ancient and medieval song culture, the birth of the novel, 19th century literature, the Wandering Jew, Long Romanticism, Old Norse literature, the lyrical mode, Hans Christian Andersen, Kafka, and notions of religiosity in the Danish Golden Age.
Gina Herrmann
Professor of Spanish
Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: gah@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-654-2705
Office: 220 Friendly Hall, 1233 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1233
Office Hours: Monday 10-12 via Zoom, please text in advance<br />
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Research Interests: Communist and Leftist Studies, Holocaust Studies, Spanish Memory Studies
Julie Hessler
Associate Professor
Director of Graduate Studies in History
History, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies
Email: hessler@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4857
Office: 351 McKenzie Hall, 1288 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1205
Office Hours: Fall 2024 Tues 10-11, Thurs 3:30-4:30
Nathalie Hester
Giustina Family Associate Professor
French, Italian, Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: nhester@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4058
Office: 222 Friendly Hall, 1233 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1233
Office Hours: Fall 2024: Mondays 1-3pm
Katya Hokanson
Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature
Director of Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, Head, Department of Comparative Literature
Comparative Literature, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: hokanson@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3947
Office: 357 PLC
Office Hours: Winter 2025: Mondays from 10-12, Thursdays from 12-2 and by appointment.
Research Interests: 19th-century Russian literature, women's writing, and Russian colonialism.
Vera Keller
Professor
Norman H. Brown, Jr. Faculty Fellow
History
Email: vkeller@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-6903
Office: 309 McKenzie Hall, 1288 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1288
Office Hours: Winter 2025: Wednesday and Thursday, 9:00-10:00
Martin Klebes
Associate Professor
Head, Department of German & Scandinavian
German & Scandinavian, School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: klebes@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-2818
Office: 205 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: MW 10:30 p.m. -11:30 p.m., and by appointment
Research Interests: 18th- through 21st-century German and French literature, philosophy and critical thought.
Patricia Lambert
Professor
Interim PhD program director
PPPM
Email: pdewey@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-2050
Office: 108 Hendricks Hall
Office Hours: Vary by term, and by appointment
Research Interests: nonprofit management, international public policy, historical public policy analysis, cultural policy, arts & cultural leadership, arts in health
Peter Laufer
Professor, James N. Wallace Chair of Journalism
Food Studies, SOJC, SOJC-Journalism, SOJC-Journalism Master's, SOJC-Media Studies Master's, SOJC-Media Studies PhD, SOJC-Multimedia Journalism
Email: laufer@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-2109
Office: 203 Allen Hall
Jeffrey S. Librett
Professor of German & Scandinavian
Department Head, Director of Graduate Studies
German & Scandinavian, School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: jlibrett@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0649
Office: 327 Friendly Hall, 1250 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1250
Office Hours: Winter 2023: Tuesday 3:30-5:00pm and by appointment (through email)
Research Interests: German, French, and English letters; Enlightenment, Counter-enlightenment, Romanticism, and Modernism; literature, philosophy, critical theory, inter-arts discourse, Judaic Studies, psychoanalysis, film
David Luebke
Professor
Katherine G. Brady & Thomas A. Brady, Jr., Roger Chickering & Alison Baker Professor of Central European Histories
Food Studies, History
Email: dluebke@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-2394
Office: 357 McKenzie Hall, 1288 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1205
John McCole
Associate Professor
History
Email: mccole@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5906
Office: 303 McKenzie Hall, 1288 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1205
Office Hours: Spring 2023 W 2-4 in McKenzie 303, or email me for a Zoom link
Leah Middlebrook
Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Spanish
Director, Oregon Humanities Center (OHC)
Comparative Literature, Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish
Email: middlebr@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3103
Office: 355 PLC Hall
Office Hours: W 2025 Friday 10:15-11:45 a.m. or by appt.
Research Interests: poetry and poetics; comparative modernities; critical race studies; early modern literature and culture of Spain, the Spanish Americas, France and Great Britain
Fabienne Moore
Associate Professor of French
French, Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: fmoore@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4032
Office: 324 Friendly Hall, 1233 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1233
Office Hours: Winter 2025: Tuesdays &Thursdays 3:30-4:30 pm
Research Interests: Early European romanticism; Chateaubriand; European Enlightenment; French & Haitian Revolutions; French and Francophone cultural and literary history; prose poetry; bande dessinées & graphic narratives; blue humanities
Dorothee Ostmeier
Professor of German, and Folklore and Public Culture
Folklore Program, German & Scandinavian, School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: ostmeier@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4145
Office: 215 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Tue/Thu 1:20 to 2 PM GSH 103 Afterwards Villard until 3:30 PM and by appointment
Research Interests: German literature and culture of the 18th through 20th century
Craig Parsons
Professor; Program Head
Political Science
Email: cap@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4402
Office: 930 PLC, 1284 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1284
Office Hours: Winter 2025: Thursday 11-12 and 1:15-3:15
Research Interests: Comparative Politics, European Politics
Jenifer Presto
Associate Professor of Comparative Literature
Comparative Literature, Digital Humanities, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies
Email: presto@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-485-7400
Office: 346 PLC
Office Hours: Winter 2025: Tues. and Thurs. 11:30-12:30 or by appt.
Research Interests: Russian modernism; gender studies; environmental criticism; visual culture; digital humanities; Russian-Italian cultural interactions; and Russian American culture
Sergio Rigoletto
Associate Professor of Cinema Studies and Italian
Email: srigolet@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4033
Office: 424 Friendly Hall
Daniel Rosenberg
Professor
History
Email: dbr@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0520
Office: 359 McKenzie Hall, 1288 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1288
Office Hours: Fall 2024, Tues 12:00-2:00pm by appointment. Schedule meeting: https://dbr-1.youcanbook.me
Research Interests: Intellectual History, Enlightenment Europe, History of Information, History of Science and Technology
George Sheridan
Professor
History
Email: gjs@uoregon.edu
Office: 340A McKenzie Hall, 1288 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1288
Michael Stern
Associate Professor of German & Scandinavian
Director of Undergraduate Studies Scandinavian
German & Scandinavian, School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: mjstern@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4126
Office: 204 Friendly Hall, 1250 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1250
Office Hours: Spring 2023: Tuesdays and Thursdays 12:00pm-1:00pm and by appointment
Research Interests: Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Western European Intellectual History, African literature, film, and thought, 19th Century Scandinavian Literature.
Matthias Vogel
Senior Instructor II and Language Coordinator
Director of Undergraduate Studies, German and Faculty Fellow, Yasui Hall
German & Scandinavian, School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: matvogel@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-337-2634
Office: 117 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Winter 2025: Tue/Thu 9:00 AM to 9:50 AM and by appointment
Research Interests: German language, culture, and pedagogy; Globalization and Global Engagement Issues; Study Abroad; Identity Discourses and Multiculturalism; Food Studies; Higher Education Organizational Leadership; Academic Residential Communities and Residential Life
David Wacks
Professor of Spanish
Medieval Studies, Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: wacks@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4029
Office: 105C Friendly Hall, 1233 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1233
Office Hours: On leave through Spring 2025
Research Interests: Medieval Iberian literature and culture, Sephardic studies, Mediterranean Studies