German Scandinavian
Susan Anderson
Professor of German
German & Scandinavian
Email: susana@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4056
Office: 321 Friendly Hall
Research Interests: German and Austrian literature and culture from the late 19th century to the present
Aneesh Aneesh
Executive Director, School of Global Studies and Languages
German & Scandinavian, Global Studies
Email: edsgsl@uoregon.edu
Office: 114 Friendly Hall
Research Interests: Globalization, technology, labor, migration, citizenship, theory
Ray Balstad
Graduate Program Coordinator
African Studies, Asian Studies, Chinese, College of Arts and Sciences, East Asian Languages, European Studies, Food Studies, French, German & Scandinavian, Global Studies, Italian, Japanese, Judaic Studies Program, Korean, Middle East and North African Studies, OCIAS, Portuguese, Romance Languages, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program, Yamada Language Center
Email: rbalstad@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-2703
Office: 114D Friendly Hall
Office Hours: MTWRF 8:30am - 4:30pm
Research Interests: French, Film, Comics, Foreign Language Acquisition, Botany
Fatima Benhabyb
Undergraduate Program Coordinator
African Studies, Asian Studies, East Asian Languages, European Studies, Food Studies, French, German & Scandinavian, Global Health Program, Global Studies, Italian, Japanese, Judaic Studies Program, Korean, Latin American Studies, Middle East and North African Studies, Romance Languages, Romance Languages Major, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program
Email: fatimab@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-2047
Office: 114 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: MTWRF 8:30am-4:30pm [Remote Fridays]
Kenneth Calhoon
Professor of Comparative Literature and German
Comparative Literature, German & Scandinavian
Email: kcalhoon@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4060
Office: 356 PLC
Research Interests: German literature, aesthetics, psychoanalysis, visual arts, early cinema
Miriam Chorley-Schulz
Assistant Professor and Mokin Fellow of Holocaust Studies
German & Scandinavian, Judaic Studies Program
Email: miriams@uoregon.edu
Office: 419 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Mo, 1–2pm or by appointment
Research Interests: Jewish Studies, Yiddish Studies, Holocaust Studies, Fascism Studies, Soviet Union, German Studies
Annie Christofferson
Undergraduate & Program Coordinator
French, German & Scandinavian, Global Studies, Italian, Judaic Studies Program, Portuguese, Romance Languages, Spanish
Email: achrist8@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0746
Office: Friendly 114
Alex Colombo
PhD Student
Graduate Employee
German & Scandinavian
Email: acolombo@uoregon.edu
Office: 16 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Wed. 1-3PM, or by appointment
Research Interests: Feminist Theories & Philosophy, Holocaust Studies, Fascism Studies, Gender, Sexuality, Queer & Trans Studies, Feminist Epistemology, Political Philosophy, Decolonial Philosophy, Critical Theory
Olivia Denton
Faculty Support Coordinator
ASU 1 - School of Global Studies and Languages
African Studies, Asian Studies, Chinese, East Asian Languages, Food Studies, French, German & Scandinavian, Global Health Program, Global Studies, Ichishkiin Language, Italian, Japanese, Judaic Studies Program, Korean, Latin American Studies, Middle East and North African Studies, Modern Hebrew Language, Northwest Indian Language Institute, OCIAS, Portuguese, Romance Languages, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program, Yamada Language Center
Email: odenton@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1385
Office: 107 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: MTWTF 9:00-5:00
Brita Ellis
Academic Programs Manager
African Studies, Asian Studies, Chinese, College of Arts and Sciences, East Asian Languages, Food Studies, French, German & Scandinavian, Global Studies, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Middle East and North African Studies, OCIAS, Portuguese, Romance Languages, Romance Languages Major, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish
Email: bellis5@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-9782
Office: Friendly 114E
Gantt Gurley
Associate Professor
Program Director, Harold Schnitzer Family Program in Judaic Studies, Advisor
Clark Honors College, German & Scandinavian, Judaic Studies Program, Medieval Studies
Email: gantt@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4055
Office: 319 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: F 10–2 or by appointment
Research Interests: Ancient and medieval song culture, the birth of the novel, the Wandering Jew, Long Romanticism, Old Norse literature, the lyrical mode, Hans Christian Andersen, and notions of religiosity in the Danish Golden Age.
Michael Hansen
Graduate Employee
German & Scandinavian, Humanities Program
Email: mhansen8@uoregon.edu
Office: Friendly 2
Office Hours: Wednesday, 10:00 - 12:00
Lisa Hoeller
Instructor
German & Scandinavian
Email: lhoeller@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4051
Office: 117 Friendly Hall
Martin Klebes
Associate Professor
German & Scandinavian
Email: klebes@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-2818
Office: 205 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: On leave
Research Interests: 18th- through 21st-century German and French literature, philosophy and critical thought.
Filip Kletnikov
PhD Student
Graduate Employee
German & Scandinavian
Email: filipk@uoregon.edu
Office: Friendly Hall 16
Office Hours: Spring Term 2024: by appointment (Location: Yamada Language Center, MCK 175)
Research Interests: Nihilism, Anarchism, Poetry, Expressionism, Decadence, Female Mysticism
Jonathan Knight
Operations Coordinator
African Studies, Asian Studies, College of Arts and Sciences, East Asian Languages, European Studies, Food Studies, German & Scandinavian, Global Health Program, Global Studies, Ichishkiin Language, Italian, Japanese, Judaic Studies Program, Korean, Latin American Studies, Middle East and North African Studies, Native American Studies, Northwest Indian Language Institute, Portuguese, Romance Languages, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program, Yamada Language Center
Email: jknight6@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0951
Office: 114 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: 8-4:30 M-F
Tobias Lehmann
PhD Candidate
Graduate Employee
German & Scandinavian
Email: tlehmann@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4051
Office: 016 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Mondays and Wednesdays from 4 to 5 PM via Zoom
Research Interests: Post-Wall Germany, Postwar Literature (esp. Committed Literature), Critical Thought, E. Bloch, Holocaust Studies, F. Nietzsche
Jeffrey S. Librett
Professor of German & Scandinavian
Department Head, Director of Graduate Studies
German & Scandinavian
Email: jlibrett@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0649
Office: 327 Friendly Hall
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
Dawn Marlan
Senior Lecturer I
Comparative Literature, German & Scandinavian, SAIL
Email: damarlan@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0934
Office: 313C Villard Hall
Office Hours: By Appointment
Research Interests: Interests: History and theory of the novel in Europe and the US, comparative modernism, contemporary fiction, visual culture, and creative writing, specifically literary nonfiction and fiction.
Robbie Marshall
Graduate Coordinator | ASU 1
African Studies, Asian Studies, Chinese, College of Arts and Sciences, East Asian Languages, Food Studies, French, German & Scandinavian, Global Studies, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Middle East and North African Studies, OCIAS, Portuguese, Romance Languages, Romance Languages Major, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program
Email: robertm1@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0195
Office: 114D | Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Monday - Friday | 8:30 am - 4:30 pm | Thursdays Virtual
Alexander Mathas
Professor Emeritus
European Studies, German & Scandinavian
Email: mathaesa@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4101
Office: 321 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: By appointment
Research Interests: Self, subjectivity, and artistic creativity in 18th through 20th century German literature and thought, as well as identity, gender, and memory in the works of 18th and 20th century authors; Humanism and Posthumanism
Jordan Morris
Office Generalist, ASU 1
German & Scandinavian
Email: jmor@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-2579
McRae Naayers
Faculty Support Coordinator
African Studies, Asian Studies, East Asian Languages, European Studies, Food Studies, German & Scandinavian, Global Studies, Ichishkiin Language, Judaic Studies Program, Latin American Studies, Middle East and North African Studies, Modern Hebrew Language, Northwest Indian Language Institute, Romance Languages, Romance Languages Major, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, School of Global Studies and Languages, Yamada Language Center
Email: mnaayers@uoregon.edu
Phone: 5413460171
Office: Friendly 107
Office Hours: Mon-Fri 8:30-5:00
Karen Neal
UG Coordinator
Asian Studies, East Asian Languages, German & Scandinavian, Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: kjneal@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4051
Office: 114 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: M-F: 8:00am - 12:00pm
Dorothee Ostmeier
Professor of German, and Folklore and Public Culture
Head, Department of Theater Arts
German & Scandinavian, Theatre Arts
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
Melissa Palma
Intercultural Experience and Career Readiness Coordinator, School of Global Studies and Languages
College of Arts and Sciences ASU 1
African Studies, Asian Studies, Chinese, East Asian Languages, European Studies, Food Studies, French, German & Scandinavian, Global Health Program, Global Studies, Ichishkiin Language, Italian, Japanese, Judaic Studies Program, Korean, Latin American Studies, Middle East and North African Studies, Modern Hebrew Language, Northwest Indian Language Institute, Portuguese, Romance Languages, Romance Languages Major, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish, Yamada Language Center
Email: mpalma3@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-9780
Helmut Plant
Associate Professor Emeritus
German & Scandinavian, SAIL
Email: hplant@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-344-0748
Office Hours: by appointment
Daniel Quintero Plata
PhD Student
German & Scandinavian
Email: danielq@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4084
Office: 202 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Amanda Robinson
PhD Student
German & Scandinavian
Email: arobinso@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4051
Office: 310 Friendly Hall
Andrea Romero Dugarte
Executive Support Coordinator
African Studies, Asian Studies, East Asian Languages, European Studies, Food Studies, German & Scandinavian, Global Health Program, Global Studies, Ichishkiin Language, Judaic Studies Program, Latin American Studies, Middle East and North African Studies, Modern Hebrew Language, Northwest Indian Language Institute, Romance Languages, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, School of Global Studies and Languages, Yamada Language Center
Phone: 541-346-4007
Office: Friendly Hall 114
Lisa Ross
Associate Director
African Studies, Asian Studies, Chinese, East Asian Languages, Food Studies, French, German & Scandinavian, Global Health Program, Global Studies, Ichishkiin Language, Italian, Japanese, Judaic Studies Program, Korean, Middle East and North African Studies, Modern Hebrew Language, Northwest Indian Language Institute, OCIAS, Portuguese, Romance Languages, Romance Languages Major, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program, Yamada Language Center
Email: lgillis@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4005
Office: 107 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: M-F 8-5
Rebecca Schuman
Pro Tem Instructor
German & Scandinavian
Email: rschuman@uoregon.edu
Office: 107C Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Fall 2021: Wednesday: 1:00-2:00pm and Thursday: 8:30-10:00am; email for Zoom link
Preetham Sridharan
Graduate Employee
German & Scandinavian, History
Email: preetham@uoregon.edu
Phone: 732-585-3006
Office: 340P McKenzie Hall
Office Hours: Fall 2023, Tue 10:00am-12:00pm
Research Interests: Modern European intellectual history, nineteenth and twentieth-century Europe, history of religious and linguistic thought, modern German history
Michael Stern
Associate Professor of German & Scandinavian
Director of Undergraduate Studies Scandinavian
German & Scandinavian
Email: mjstern@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4126
Office: 204 Friendly Hall
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.
Marci Viano-Davis
Operations Manager
ASU 1 - School of Global Studies and Languages
College of Arts and Sciences, East Asian Languages, Food Studies, German & Scandinavian, Global Health Program, Global Studies, Ichishkiin Language, Italian, Japanese, Judaic Studies Program, Latin American Studies, Middle East and North African Studies, Northwest Indian Language Institute, OCIAS, Romance Languages, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program, Yamada Language Center
Email: marcid@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4019
Office: 116 Friendly
Office Hours: 9-3 M-F
Matthias Vogel
Senior Instructor II and Language Coordinator
Director of Undergraduate Studies, German and Faculty Fellow, Building C
German & Scandinavian
Email: matvogel@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-337-2634
Office: 208 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Winter 2023: Mo/We 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM
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
Olivia Wilkinson
Student Office Worker
German & Scandinavian
Email: owilkin2@uoregon.edu
Office: Office 114 Friendly Hall
Jeremiah Young
PhD Student
German & Scandinavian
Email: jyoung7@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4051
Office: 312 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: M:10-11; T:12-1 or by appointment
Research Interests: Trauma, Old Norse Literature, Romanticism, Narratology, Oral Tradition, Psychoanalysis, Ecocriticism