Humanities

Heather Bair

Costume Shop Manager
Theatre Arts
Office: 123A MTC (Miller Theatre Complex)
Research Interests: Costume History, Period and Modern Construction and Tailoring Techniques, Illustration, Art History, Owls

Emily Baker

ASU4 Undergraduate/Graduate Coordinator
Linguistics
Phone: 541-346-3906
Office: 161 Straub Hall

Aoife Balaji

Creative Writing Graduate Student/ ENG GE
English
Office: 255 PLC
Office Hours: Winter Term: MW 2-3:30pm

Monique Balbuena

Associate Professor of Comparative Literature
Comparative Literature
Phone: 541-346-2311
Office: 345 PLC
Research Interests: Comparative Literature and Jewish Studies, Sephardic Languages, Ladino, Poetry, French and Francophone Literatures, Latin American Studies

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
Phone: 541-346-2703
Office: 114D Friendly Hall
Office Hours: MTWRF 8:30am - 4:30pm
Research Interests: French, Film, Comics, Foreign Language Acquisition, Botany

Omar Barahona Barahona

Graduate Employee, PhD Student
Romance Languages, Spanish
Office: Friendly 27
Office Hours: Wed 2:00-4:00 PM or by appointment

Faith Barter

Assistant Professor
Black Studies, English
Phone: 541-346-1510
Office: 320 PLC
Office Hours: Winter Term: By appointment via zoom: T 2-3:30pm, R 2:30-3:30pm (make an appt. at https://dr-barter.youcanbook.me/). Drop-in hours in-person (no appt. needed): R 2-2:30pm
Research Interests: African American Literary and Cultural Studies, 19th-Century American Literary Studies, Cultural Studies

Robert Barton

Professor Emeritus
Theatre Arts
Phone: 541-346-4177
Office: 105 Villard Hall

Kevin Bartz

Creative Writing Graduate Student
Comparative Literature

Josiah Basaldua

English Graduate Student / GE
English
Phone: 541-346-0529

Judith Baskin

Philip H. Knight Professor Emerita in Humanities
Judaic Studies Program, Middle East and North African Studies, Religious Studies

Trisha Bates-Wickman

Business Manager and Events Coordinator
American English Institute
Phone: 541-346-0243
Office: 204D Agate Hall
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
Phone: 541-852-5628
Office: 192K Esslinger Hall
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
Research Interests: Religion and Ecology, Native Studies, Environmentalism, Music

Anna-Lisa Baumeister

Comparative Literature Graduate Student
Comparative Literature
Office: 313 Villard
Research Interests: German Thought of the Long Eighteenth Century, Ecocriticism and Ecopoetics, Literature and Science, Gender Studies and Critical Race Theory

Martha Bayless

Professor, English; Program Head, Humanities
Director, Folklore and Public Culture
English, Folklore Program, Food Studies, Humanities Program, Medieval Studies
Phone: 541-346-3930
Office: 344 PLC
Office Hours: Winter Term: By appt. only
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
Phone: Teams
Office: 201 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Thursday 2:30-4:30pm
Research Interests: Teaching French as a second language, Teaching francophone literature, Ecofeminism, Decolonial literature

Carolyn Bergquist

Senior Lecturer
English
Phone: 541-346-2695
Office: 243 PLC
Office Hours: Winter Term: Zoom only, T 2:30-4pm, R 2-3:30pm & by appt.

Aurélie Bertin

Graduate Student
Romance Languages
Office: 30 Friendly Hall
Research Interests: Teaching French and Pedagogy, Language Teachings Studies, Linguistics, Cinema Studies, Translation Studies, 17th century French literature.

Sunayani Bhattacharya

Comparative Literature Graduate Student
Comparative Literature
Research Interests: Postcolonial literature, Critical theory, Intertexuality, 19th-century colonial Bengal, the works of J.M. Coetzee

Matthew Bicakci

English Pro Tem
English
Phone: 541-346-3938
Office: 222 PLC
Office Hours: Winter Term: MWF 1-2pm

Angela Bogart-Monteith

Pro Tem Instructor
Creative Writing Program
Phone: 541-346-1595
Office: 216 Alder Bldg

Elizabeth Bohls

Professor
English, SAIL
Phone: 541-346-5484
Office: 263 PLC
Office Hours: Winter Term: T 1:30-4pm, R 4-4:30pm
Research Interests: Colonial, Settler Colonial, and Postcolonial Studies, Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity, Cultural Studies, Feminism Studies, Restoration and 18th Century Literary Studies, Travel Writing

Aidana Bolatbekkyzy

PhD candidate
East Asian Languages
Phone: 541-346-4084
Office: Friendly Hall 114
Research Interests: confinement literature

Alexandra Bonds

Professor Emeritus
Professor Emerita
Asian Studies, Theatre Arts
Phone: 541-346-4194
Office: 205 Villard Hall

James Boren

Professor Emeritus
English
Phone: 541-346-3961
Office: 1286 University of Oregon
Office Hours:

Tina Boscha

Senior Instructor II
English, Lundquist College of Business, SAIL
Phone: 541-346-0056
Office: Prince Lucien Campbell 236
Office Hours: Winter Term: M 9:30-11:30am via Zoom, M 12:45-1:45pm in person

B Mokaya Bosire

Senior Instructor
African Studies, Language Teaching Studies, Linguistics
Phone: 541-346-3916
Office: 377 Straub Hall
Office Hours: Mon/Wed 3:30p-4:30p or by appt.
Research Interests: Swahili, Sheng, African languages & Urban vernaculars

Jack Boss

Professor of Music Theory and Composition
German & Scandinavian, Music
Phone: 541-346-5654
Office: 208 Frohnmayer Music Bldg
Research Interests: Music Theory, Music Composition, Music Scholarly Areas

Adrienne Bosworth

English Graduate Student
First Year Fellowship Recipient
English
Research Interests: blue humanities, maritime literature, 19th century American literature, travel narrative, science fiction

Lara Bovilsky

Associate Professor
College Scholars, English, SAIL
Phone: 541-346-1309
Office: 246 PLC
Office Hours: Winter Term: by appt. only, schedule via email
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 Department Head, Interim Director of Creative Writing
Classics, Creative Writing Program, Humanities Program, Translation Studies
Phone: 541-346-0552
Office: 108 Alder Building
Office Hours: Thursday 12:00pm-2:00pm

Karen Bowe

Classics Graduate Student
Classics
Office: 336 Susan Campbell Hall

Melissa Bowers

Associate Director, Academic Support
Arabic Studies, Classics, Comics and Cartoon Studies, Comparative Literature, Comparative Literature Journal, Digital Humanities, Disability Studies, English, Folklore Program, Humanities Program, Medieval Studies, Northwest Indian Language Institute, Philosophy, Religious Studies
Phone: 541-346-1506
Office: 124 PLC
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

Matthew Brambley

English Graduate Student
English
Office: PLC 316
Office Hours: Winter Term: F 9am-12pm

Matthew Brambley

English Graduate Student/ GE
English

Bradley Branam

Associate Professor
Theatre Arts
Phone: 541-346-4185
Office: B11E MacArthur Court
Research Interests: Technical Direction, Projection Design, Sound Design

Rachel Branson

Comparative Literature Graduate Student
Comparative Literature
Phone: 541-346-3921
Office: PLC 211
Office Hours: Winter term: T 10-12, W 1-3
Research Interests: 19th-century Russian literature and German; Soviet children's literature, fairy tales and socialist realism, theories of mimesis and prosaics, especially in the work of Lev Tolstoy.

Jennifer Bright

Instructor
Comparative Literature
Phone: none - please use email
Office: 218 VIL
Office Hours: Not teaching spring term 16
Research Interests: Literature and culture of Transatlantic modernism, sexuality studies, and food studies from the nineteenth century to present day.

S. Pearl Brilmyer

Assistant Professor
Comparative Literature
Phone: 541-346-3935
Office: 273 PLC
Office Hours: On leave until AY 16-17

Marcel Brousseau

Courtesy Assistant Professor
Comics and Cartoon Studies, Digital Humanities, English
Phone: 541-346-3967
Office: 317 PLC

Dakota Brown

English Graduate Student/ GE
English

Jason B. Brown

Associate Professor
Associate Professor
Creative Writing Program
Phone: 541-346-0510
Office: 208 Alder Bldg

Kirby Brown

Associate Professor, English
Director, Native American Studies
English, IRES, Native American Studies, SAIL
Phone: 541-346-5819
Office: 330 PLC
Office Hours: Winter Term: T 1-3pm, R 11:30am-12:30pm, by email appt. (or schedule here: https://calendly.com/kirbybrown/15min)
Research Interests: Native American and Indigenous Literary and Cultural Studies; Race, Ethnicity, & Indigeneity; Cultural Studies; Modernism Studies;

Lucien Brown

Associate Professor, Korean Linguistics
East Asian Languages
Phone: 541-346-4103
Office: 425 Friendly Hall

Steven Brown

Professor of Comparative Literature
Asian Studies, Comics and Cartoon Studies, Comparative Literature
Phone: 541-346-4016
Office: 354 PLC
Research Interests: posthumanism, horror cinema, Surrealist film and animation, sound design in film, Japanese popular culture, and critical theory.

Carrie Brown Reiily

Spanish Instructor
Romance Languages
Phone: 541-346-4207
Office: 20 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Thursday 11:30 - 1 pm YLC 175 MCK

Katherine Brundan

Senior Instructor I
Comparative Literature, English, Humanities Program, SAIL
Phone: 541-346-0934
Office: 363 PLC
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
Phone: 541-346-3975
Office: 343 PLC
Office Hours: Winter Term: T 10-11:30am (Zoom), R 12-1:30pm (in-person)

Mattie Burkert

Associate Professor
Director, Minor in Digital Humanities; Interim Director, New Media and Culture Certificate
College of Arts and Sciences, Digital Humanities, Disability Studies, English
Phone: 541-346-0272
Office: 235 PLC
Office Hours: Winter Term: W 10:30am-1:30pm (drop-ins welcome but appts. prioritized. Sign up: https://tinyurl.com/burkert-office-hours)
Research Interests: Cultural Studies, Digital Humanities, Disability Studies, Drama and Performance Studies, Film Television and Media Studies, Gender Sexuality Queer and Trans Studies, Renaissance/Early Modern Literary Studies, Restoration and 18th Century Literary Studies

John Busch

Instructor
American English Institute
Phone: 541-346-3945
Office: 215 Agate Hall

Megan Butler

English Graduate Student / GE
English Graduate Organization (EGO) Board Vice President
English
Phone: 541-346-0050
Office: 219 PLC
Office Hours: Winter Term: T 12:30-3:30pm
Research Interests: 20th and 21st Century American Literature, Critical Race Studies, The Environmental Humanities