Humanities

Vsevolod Kapatsinski

Professor
Director of Graduate Studies
Linguistics
Phone: 541-346-3923
Office: 367 Straub Hall
Office Hours: Mon & Wed 2:00p-3:30p, in person or Zoom
Research Interests: computational learning theory, constituency, unitization, frequency effects, probabilistic morphophonology, inferential statistics, usage-based linguistic theory, mechanisms of language change

Lamia Karim

Professor & Department Head
Anthropology, Asian Studies, Comparative Literature, SAIL
Phone: 541-346-5095
Office: 375 Condon Hall
Office Hours: Wed from 2-3 PM and by appointment and Zoom
Research Interests: women, work, neoliberalism, state, and Islam

Kathleen Karlyn

Professor Emerita
English
Phone: 541-346-1526
Office: 519 PLC
Office Hours:

Alexander Kashirin

Professor pro tempore
Russian East European and Eurasian Studies
Phone: 541-346-4826
Research Interests: Russia, European History

Heidi Kaufman

Associate Professor
English
Phone: 541-346-3932
Office: 327 PLC
Office Hours: Spring Term: F 10am-1pm & by appt.

Masami Kawai

Assistant Professor
Asst Professor of Cinema Studies
Cinema Studies Program
Phone: 541-346-8141
Office: 254 PLC
Office Hours: Winter 23, Wednesday 1:00-3:00 p.m.

Kyle Keeler

English Graduate Student
English
Phone: 541-346-1595
Office: 455PLC

Kate Kelp-Stebbins

Associate Professor
Comics and Cartoon Studies, English
Phone: 541-346-1520
Office: 333 PLC
Office Hours: Not teaching Spring 2024, checking email sporadically
Research Interests: Colonial, Settler Colonial, and Postcolonial Studies, Comics and Cartoon Studies, Digital Humanities, Feminism Studies, Film, Television, and Media Studies, Postmodern and Contemporary Literary Studies, Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity

Alia Kempton

Folklore Graduate Student
English Department GE
Folklore Program
Phone: 541-346-8750
Office: 228C PLC
Office Hours: Winter term: MW 1400-1530

Tyler Kendall

Professor
Linguistics, SAIL
Phone: 541-346-3199
Office: 373 Straub Hall

Mina Kerr

English Graduate Student/GE
English
Phone: 541-346-0053
Office: 214 PLC
Office Hours: Spring Term: MW 11am-12:30pm

Harinder Khalsa

Senior Instructor II of Italian/YLC Self Study Language Program Coordinator
Romance Languages
Phone: 541-346-1540 (email preferred)
Office: MCK 161
Office Hours: TW 2:00-2:30 PM or by appointment
Research Interests: Italian language and culture, Turkish language and culture, Less Commonly Taught Languages, second language acquisition, teaching and teacher training.

Dong Hoon Kim

Associate Professor of Cinema Studies
Cinema Studies Program
Phone: 541-346-4108
Office: 104 PLC
Office Hours: Spring 24: Fridays 1-2:30p.m. or by appointment

Eun Young (Ariel) Kim

PhD Candidate
East Asian Languages
Research Interests: Sociopragmatic, Second Language Acquisiton, Computer-Mediated Communication, Korean Linguistics

Jina Kim

Associate Professor, Korean Literature & Culture
East Asian Languages
Office: 403 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Fall 2023:Friday 12:00 (Noon)-2:00 pm Global Scholars Hall 105
Research Interests: Modern Korean literature, Comparative literature, Sound studies, Transmedia, Korean diaspora

Jinsu Kim

Graduate Student
East Asian Languages
Phone: 541-346-4090
Office: 27 Friendly Hall

Woojoo Kim

Korean Language Instructor
East Asian Languages
Office: 311 Friendly Hall

Alan Kimball

Professor Emeritus
History, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies
Office: 340V McKenzie Hall

Martin Klebes

Associate Professor
German & Scandinavian
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
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

Addison Knight

English Graduate Student
English

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
Phone: 541-346-0951
Office: 114 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: 8-4:30 M-F

Stephen Kohl

Associate Professor Emeritus, Japanese Literature
Asian Studies, East Asian Languages
Phone: 541-346-4006
Office: 308 Friendly Hall

Addy Koneval

Career Instructor
English
Office: TYK 301K
Office Hours: Spring Term: In person MW 10:30am-12pm; Online R 2-3:30pm

Artie Kotov

MA Student and Graduate Employee
Language Teaching Studies
Linguistics
Office: 368 Straub Hall
Office Hours: MW 10-11 am or Zoom by appointment
Research Interests: Intercultural Communication, Sociolinguistics, Historical Linguistics, Newspeak in Russian; Gender in Russian, Gender in English, Occasional Words, Teaching English to Refugees and Displaced Persons

Anna Kovalchuk

Career Instructor
Comparative Literature, English
Phone: 541-346-1532
Office: 301A Tykeson Hall
Office Hours: Spring Term: TR 12-1:30pm
Research Interests: national narratives, comparative and world literature, Cossack history, Ukrainian and Russian literature

Finn Kovall

Graduate Programs Assistant
Cinema Studies Program, Creative Writing Program, History, IRES, Theatre Arts, Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies
Phone: 541-346-0192
Office: 201 McKenzie Hall

Mary Kupsch

Folklore Graduate Student
Folklore Program

Nessie Kurganova

GE Russian Language Instructor
Graduate student
Russian East European and Eurasian Studies
Office: Friendly 30
Office Hours: M 2-3 & T 10-11 or by appt
Research Interests: Language pedagogy, gender discourse

Nayoung Kwon

Associate Professor, Korean Linguistics
Korean Sector Representative
East Asian Languages
Phone: 541-346-4179
Office: Friendly Hall 425

Kris Kyle

Associate Professor
Language Teaching Studies, Linguistics
Phone: 541-346-3808
Office: 273 Straub Hall
Office Hours: Tue 1:30p-2:30p