Humanities
Max Backderf
M.A.
Philosophy
Email: mbackder@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: Mondays and Wednesdays from 2:00-3:00pm
Research Interests: Pragmatism, Philosophy of Science, Feminist Epistemology
Abbas Bagwala
PhD
GE and Promising Scholar
Philosophy
Email: abagwala@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: 1000 - 1200 on Fridays
Research Interests: philosophy of machine learning, philosophy of science, epistemology, political philosophy, neopragmatism and pragmatism
Heather Bair
Costume Shop Manager
Theatre Arts
Email: hbair@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Costume History, Period and Modern Construction and Tailoring Techniques, Illustration, Art History, Owls
Monique Balbuena
Associate Professor of Comparative Literature
Comparative Literature
Email: balbuena@uoregon.edu
Office: 345 PLC, 1249 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Research Interests: Comparative Literature and Jewish Studies, Sephardic Languages, Ladino, Poetry, French and Francophone Literatures, Latin American Studies
Omar Barahona Barahona
Graduate Employee, PhD Student
Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish
Email: obarahon@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: By appointment
Faith Barter
Assistant Professor
Black Studies, English
Email: fbarter@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1510
Office: 320 PLC, 1286 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286
Office Hours: Winter 2025: Tues./Thurs. 1:00-2:30pm. You must sign up at dr-barter.youcanbook.me
Research Interests: African American Literary and Cultural Studies, 19th-Century American Literary Studies, Cultural Studies
Robert Barton
Professor Emeritus
Theatre Arts
Email: barton@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4177
Office: 105 Villard Hall
Judith Baskin
Philip H. Knight Professor Emerita in Humanities
Judaic Studies Program, Medieval Studies, Religious Studies
Email: jbaskin@uoregon.edu
Trisha Bates-Wickman
Business Manager and Events Coordinator
American English Institute
Email: twickman@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0243
Office Hours: Currently On Leave
Research Interests: All contracts, building and equipment maintenance, payroll and financial issues, special events
Magela Baudoin Teran
Graduate Employee, Spanish, PhD Candidate
Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: mbaudoin@uoregon.edu
Office: 192K Esslinger Hall, 1233 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1233
Research Interests: Latin American literature from the mid-20th to the 21st centuries, Writing as Creative Laboratories, Aesthetic and Political Performances, Auto-fiction in Modern Literature, Women and Gender Studies, Decolonial Studies.
John Baumann
Alumni
Folklore Program
Email: jbaumann@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Religion and Ecology, Native Studies, Environmentalism, Music
Martha Bayless
Professor, English
English, Folklore Program, Food Studies, Humanities Program, Medieval Studies
Email: mjbayles@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3930
Office: 344 PLC, 1286 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286
Office Hours: On sabbatical; please email.
Research Interests: Folklore, Medieval Studies, Cultural Studies, Food Studies
Mathilde Bégu
Career Instructor of French and 2nd-year French Language Program Supervisor
French, Romance Languages
Email: mbegu@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: Monday, Wednesday, 10:30-11:30 in Friendly 201 or on Zoom
Research Interests: Pedagogy, Teaching French as a second language
Guillem Belmar Viernes
Assistant Professor
Linguistics
Email: gbelmar@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: Tues & Thurs 10:30-11:30
Research Interests: Language revitalization, language maintenance, language rights, minoritized languages, endangered languages, language documentation, minority multilingualism, Minoritized Languages and (Social Media), Minoritized Language Translation, cont.
Fatima Benhabyb
Undergraduate Program Coordinator
African Studies, Asian Studies, East Asian Languages, European Studies, Food Studies, French, German & Scandinavian, 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 Hours: MTWRF 8:30am-4:30pm [Remote Fridays]
Carolyn Bergquist
Senior Lecturer
English
Email: cjb@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-2695
Office: 243 PLC, 1286 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286
Office Hours: Not teaching Spring 2024, checking email regularly until mid-May
Aurélie Bertin
Graduate Student
Romance Languages
Email: abertin@uoregon.edu
Office: 30 Friendly Hall
Research Interests: Teaching French and Pedagogy, Language Teachings Studies, Linguistics, Cinema Studies, Translation Studies, 17th century French literature.
Matthew Bicakci
English Pro Tem
English
Email: mbicakci@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3938
Office: 222 PLC
Office Hours: Spring Term: TR 12-1:30pm
Louise Bishop
Associate Professor Emeritus of Literature
Clark Honors College, Medieval Studies
Email: lmbishop@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Medieval Literature, especially Middle English literature; Medievalism
Doug Blandy
Professor Emeritus
Folklore Program, PPPM
Email: dblandy@uoregon.edu
Office: 147D Hendricks Hall, 1209 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1209
Kieran Blokhuis
Folklore Graduate Student/ ENG GE
English, Folklore Program
Email: kblokhui@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: Monday 11:30 - 2:30
Research Interests: transgender, werewolf, art, social media, tumblr, monster, autism, narrative, film
Elizabeth Bohls
Professor
English, SAIL
Email: ebohls@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5484
Office: 263 PLC, 1286 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286
Office Hours: Spring Term: M 12-2, W 1-2 & by appt.
Research Interests: Colonial, Settler Colonial, and Postcolonial Studies, Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity, Cultural Studies, Feminism Studies, Restoration and 18th Century Literary Studies, Travel Writing
Alexandra Bonds
Professor Emeritus
Professor Emerita
Asian Studies, Theatre Arts
Phone: 541-346-4194
Office: 205 Villard Hall, 1231 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1205
Mokaya Bosire
Senior Instructor
African Studies, Language Teaching Studies, Linguistics
Email: mokaya@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3916
Office: 377 Straub Hall, 1290 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1290
Office Hours: Mon/Wed 3:30p-4:30p or by appt.
Research Interests: Swahili, Sheng, African languages & Urban vernaculars
Lara Bovilsky
Associate Professor
College Scholars, English, SAIL
Email: bovilsky@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1309
Office: 246 PLC, 1286 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286
Office Hours: Spring Term: M 9:30-11am, R 10-11am & by appt.
Research Interests: Renaissance/Early Modern Literary Studies, Race Ethnicity and Indigeneity, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Poetry and Poetics, Drama and Performance Studies
Lowell Bowditch
Professor
Classics
Email: bowditch@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4306
Office: 337 Susan Campbell Hall
Office Hours: By Appointment
Melissa Bowers
Associate Director, Academic Support
Classics, Comics and Cartoon Studies, Comparative Literature, Comparative Literature Journal, Digital Humanities, Disability Studies, English, Folklore Program, Humanities Program, Medieval Studies, Philosophy, Religious Studies, Arabic Studies
Email: bowersm@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1506
Office: 124 PLC, 1286 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Office Hours: (if needed, please contact me via email for an appointment, walk-ins are not guaranteed) Mon. -Wed. 8:30 a.m.-Noon and 1- 5 p.m. (118 PLC) 541.346.1506, Thursday and Friday remote 8am-5pm
Bradley Branam
Associate Professor
Department Head, Theatre Arts
Theatre Arts
Email: bbranam@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4185
Office: B11E MacArthur Court
Research Interests: Technical Direction, Projection Design, Sound Design
Mike Bray
Career Instructor
Art, Cinema Studies
Email: mbray@uoregon.edu
Office: Millrace 2, 5232 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-5232
Research Interests: Art and Technology
Steven Brence
Distinguished Teaching Professor & Pre-Law Advisor
Director of Ethics Minor
Philosophy
Email: brences@uoregon.edu
Office: 250D Susan Campbell Hall, 1295 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1295
Office Hours: Spring 2025: Wednesdays from 3-5 pm or by Appointment.
Research Interests: Social/Political, Ethics, Philosophy of Film, Pragmatism, 19th and 20th Century German
Marcel Brousseau
Courtesy Assistant Professor
Comics and Cartoon Studies, Digital Humanities, English, Clark Honors College
Email: mbrousse@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3967
Office: 317 PLC
Audrey Brown
PhD
GE
Philosophy
Email: asaltar2@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: Fall 2023: Thursdays from 12-3 pm
Research Interests: History of philosophy, American philosophy, Religious Philosophy, Decolonial Philosophy
Jason B. Brown
Professor
Director of Creative Writing
Creative Writing Program
Email: brownj11@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0510
Office: 208 Alder Bldg, 5243 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-5243
Kirby Brown
Associate Professor, English
Director, Native American and Studies (NAIS)
English, Native American Studies
Email: kbrown@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5819
Office: 330 PLC, 1286 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286
Office Hours: Spring 2025: T: 3-5 pm, W: 11 am-12 pm, and by email appt.<br />
Schedule here: https://calendly.com/kirbybrown/officehours
Research Interests: Native American and Indigenous Literary and Cultural Studies; Race, Ethnicity, & Indigeneity; Cultural Studies; Modernism Studies; Genre Studies; Nationhood/Nationalism Studies; Sovereignty/Self-Determination Studies
Lily Brown
English Graduate Student/GE
English
Email: lbrow@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: Spring Term: Mondays noon-2:00 pm and by appointment
Research Interests: Folklore, Religion & Mythology, Cultural Studies, Archival Studies
Steven Brown
Professor of Comparative Literature
Asian Studies, Comics and Cartoon Studies, Comparative Literature
Email: stb@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4016
Office: 354 PLC, 1249 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Office Hours: 3:30-5:30 on Tuesday (by appt.) via Zoom.
Research Interests: posthumanism, horror cinema, Surrealist film and animation, sound design in film, Japanese popular culture, and critical theory.
Irie Browning
Philosophy Graduate Student
Philosophy
Email: irieb@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: Tuesdays 10-12
Research Interests: Virtue ethics, American Pragmatism (especially John Dewey), Philosophy of Education
Carrie Brown Reiily
Spanish Instructor
Romance Languages
Email: creilly@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4207
Office: 20 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Tuesday 3 pm - 4:30 pm 193 ANS
Katherine Brundan
Senior Instructor I
Comparative Literature, Disability Studies, English, Humanities Program, SAIL
Email: kbrundan@uoregon.edu
Office: 363 PLC, 1249 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Research Interests: 19th century European novel, translation studies, philology, history of the novel, the Gothic, gender, technology
Kristy Bryant-Berg
Senior Instructor
Associate Director, Compostion Program
English
Email: kbryantb@uoregon.edu
Phone: Please contact via email for faster response.
Office: 343 PLC, 1286 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286
Office Hours: Winter 2025: Tuesdays, noon to 2 pm by Zoom and Thursdays, 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. in PLC 343
Mattie Burkert
Associate Professor
Director, Minor in Digital Humanities
Digital Humanities, English
Email: mburkert@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0272
Office: 235 PLC, 1286 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286
Office Hours: Spring 2025: Mondays, 1:00-4:00 p.m. (schedule an appointment at https://tinyurl.com/burkert-office-hours)
Research Interests: Digital Humanities, New Media, Theater and Performance Studies, Restoration and 18th Century Literature and Culture, Histories of Science and Technology, Economic History and Criticism, Gender and Sexuality, Disability, Critical AI Studies
Brooke Burns
Ph.D.
Philosophy
Email: bburns8@uoregon.edu
Office: 221 Susan Campbell Hall, 1295 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1295
Office Hours: Thursday 4-6 and by appointment
Research Interests: Feminist philosophy, Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy, Genealogy (esp. Michel Foucault and Bernard Williams)
John Busch
Instructor
American English Institute
Email: jbusch2@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3945
Office: 215 Agate Hall, 5212 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-5212
Gonzalo Bustamante-Moya
Ph.D. & GE
Managing Editor Hypatia Reviews Online | Undergraduate Advisor
Philosophy
Email: gonzalob@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: Tuesdays from 11:30-13:30 at 11B Susan Campbell Hall or by appointment
Research Interests: Political and Social Philosophy (esp. critiques of capitalism), Epistemology, Feminist Philosophy, Early Analytic Philosophy (Wittgenstein), German Idealism, Critical Theory
Megan Butler
English Graduate Student
English
Email: mbutler7@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: Winter term: Mondays 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Research Interests: 20th and 21st Century African American Literature
