Humanities

Maryam Saedi

Instructor of French
French, Romance Languages
Phone: 541-346-4497
Office: 198C Esslinger Hall

Rachelle Saltzman

Lecturer, Folklore and Public Culture
Retired, Executive Director, Oregon Folklife Network
Folklore Program
Phone: 541-346-3820
Office: 242 Knight Library
Research Interests: Folklore, Foodways, American Folklore, British Folklore, Festival, Ritual, Folk Drama, Public Protest

Erin SanGregory

PhD Student
General Linguistics Program
Linguistics
Office: 262 Straub Hall
Office Hours: Mon & Thu 1:30pm-2:30pm

Annalise San Juan

English Graduate Student
English

John Sansone

English Graduate Student / GE
English
Phone: 541-346-0054
Office: 234 PLC
Office Hours: Not teaching Spring 2024
Research Interests: Environmental Humanities; 19th Century American Literature; 20th Century American Literature; Labor and Land; Critical Theory

Maria 'Bene' Santos

Senior Instructor 1 of Portuguese
Portuguese Language Supervisor
Portuguese, Romance Languages
Phone: 541-346-4052
Office: 411 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Monday and Wednesday 2:00 to 2:50

Ben Saunders

Professor
Director, Comics and Cartoon Studies Minor
Comics and Cartoon Studies, English
Phone: 541-346-0062
Office: 273 PLC
Office Hours: Not teaching Spring 2024, no office hours
Research Interests: Early Modern Poetry and Drama, Comics Studies, Anglo-American Poetry and Poetics, Critical Theory (Marxism, Queer Theory, Genre Theory), Genre Fictions (Crime, Horror, and Science Fiction)

Jesse Sawyer

Creative Writing Graduate Student/ ENG GE
English
Office: 314 PLC
Office Hours: Spring Term: MW 4-5pm, F 1:55-2:55pm

Gordon Sayre

Professor
English, Folklore Program
Phone: 541-346-1313
Office: 472 PLC
Office Hours: Spring Term: M 2-3:30pm, R 10:30am-12pm
Research Interests: Folkore, Environmental Humanities, Colonial American Literature, Automobility and Car Cultures, Indigenous Studies

Philip W. Scher

Department Head, Cinema Studies
Professor of Anthropology and Folklore
Anthropology, Cinema Studies Program
Phone: 541-346-5104
Office: 322 Fenton Hall
Office Hours: Email for appointment

John Schmor

Associate Professor
Theatre Arts
Phone: 541-346-4177
Office: Email for Appointments
Research Interests: Directing/devising new works, Shakespeare, early 20th century avant garde, stage adaptations

David Schmunk

Interim Faculy Support Coordinator, ASU #3
Arabic Studies, Classics, English, Folklore Program, Humanities Program, Philosophy
Phone: 541-346-5053
Office: PLC 311
Office Hours: 7:30 am to 4:00 pm

Jeff Schroeder

Associate Professor
Asian Studies, Religious Studies
Phone: 541-346-4165
Office: 332 Susan Campbell

Rebecca Schultz

Composition Program Coordinator
English
Office: 301F Tykeson Hall
Office Hours: Zoom Appt. Only (24 hr. notice)

Rebecca Schuman

Pro Tem Instructor
German & Scandinavian
Office: 107C Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Fall 2021: Wednesday: 1:00-2:00pm and Thursday: 8:30-10:00am; email for Zoom link

Kristen Seaman

Associate Professor
Classics, History Art & Arch
Phone: 541-346-7312
Office: 251C Lawrence Hall
Research Interests: Greek and Roman Art and Archaeology

Leslie Selcer

English Graduate Student
English, Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies
Phone: 541-346-1548
Office: 218B Hendricks Hall
Research Interests: digital cultural studies; intersectional feminist studies; far-right political extremism; conspiracy cultures

Janine M. Sepulveda

Senior Instructor I
Senior Instructor II
American English Institute
Phone: 541-346-3945
Office: 220A Agate Hall

Jesús Sepúlveda

Senior Instructor II of Spanish Composition, Creative Writing, and Poetry
Romance Languages, Spanish
Phone: 541-346-8304
Office: 313 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: W 1:00-3:00 pm
Research Interests: Poetry, Latin American and Spanish Literature, World Literature, Creative Writing, Shamanism, Avant-Garde and Post Avant-Garde Movements, Intoxicated Texts, Green Anarchy, Southern Cone, Critical Theory, Global Studies

Peyman Shams

Graduate Employee
Theatre Arts
Office: B10 MacArthur Court

Steven Shankman

Professor Emeritus
UNESCO Chair in Transcultural Studies, Interreligious Dialogue, and Peace
English, Judaic Studies Program, Philosophy
Phone: 541-346-3997
Office: 373 PLC
Office Hours: Not teaching ENG this term; available via email
Research Interests: Comparative literature, the classical tradition in English and American literature, the eighteenth century, and the history of literary theory

Holly Shao

MA Student
Language Teaching Studies
Linguistics

Narayan Sharma

Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Linguistics
Phone: 541-346-3914
Office: 281 Straub Hall
Research Interests: Language documentation and description; endangered and minority Tibeto-Burman languages; morphology and syntax; linguistic typology, and field linguistics

Beth Sheppard

Pro Tem Instructor
American English Institute
Phone: 541-346-3945
Office: 202E Agate Hall
Office Hours: Fall 2021: Tuesday and Friday: 1230-100pm via Zoom and by appointment

Sabrina Sherman

English Graduate Student / GE
English
Phone: 541-346-0528
Office: 323 PLC
Office Hours: Not teaching Spring 2024
Research Interests: African American Literature, Philosophy of Race, Harlem Renaissance, Black Feminism and Literature.

Sharon Sherman

Professor Emerita
English
Phone: 541-346-3966
Office: PLC
Office Hours:

Heidi (Hui) Shi

Ph.D. in Chinese Linguistics
Graduate Employee
East Asian Languages
Phone: 541-346-4090
Office: 27 Friendly Hall
Research Interests: Language and gender, cognitive linguistics, corpus linguistics, digital media and language, Chinese as a second language pedagogy

Stephen Shoemaker

Professor
History of Christianity
Humanities Program, Middle East and North African Studies, Medieval Studies, Religious Studies, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies
Phone: 541-346-4998
Office: 348 Susan Campbell Hall
Office Hours: Mondays and Wednesdays 2:00pm-3:00pm

Rebeca Silva Rivera

English Graduate Student
College of Arts and Sciences, English
Phone: 541-346-8867
Office: 401B Tykeson Hall

Carol Silverman

Professor Emeritus
Anthropology, Judaic Studies Program, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies
Phone: 541-346-5114
Office Hours:
Research Interests: Arts and human rights, music, Balkans, Roma, gender, ritual

Sherwin Simmons

Professor Emeritus
History Art & Arch, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies
Phone: 541-346-2080
Office: 382 Lawrence Hall

Emily Simnitt

Senior Instructor
Interim Director Compositon Program; Director, WSCR Minor
Digital Humanities, English, SAIL
Phone: 541-346-3517
Office: 301E Tykeson Hall
Office Hours: Spring Term: In person T 3-4pm, W 11am-12pm; Zoom F 3-4pm
Research Interests: digital rhetoric, civic engagement, first year writing

Jean-Baptiste Simonnet

Comparative Literature Graduate Student
Comparative Literature
Phone: 541-346-0054
Office: 234 PLC

Nathaniel Sims

Assistant Professor
Linguistics
Office: 371 Straub Hall
Office Hours: Tue 8:00am-10:00am
Research Interests: language documentation and revitalization, historical linguistics, Trans-Himalayan languages

Devina Sindhu

Comparative Literature Graduate Student/GE
Comparative Literature
Phone: 541-346-0937
Office: 215 Villard Hall
Research Interests: Writing by and about women, global anglophone literature, feminist philosophy, phenomenology, decoloniality, decolonial feminism, world literature, philosophy and literature, ethics, postcolonial thought, South Asian literature and diaspora

André Sirois

Instructor, Musicology 
Cinema Studies Program
Phone: 541-346-8844
Office: 263 Knight Library
Research Interests: Musicology and Ethnomusicology

Bjorn Smars

Senior Instructor
English
Phone: 541-346-3977
Office: 223 PLC
Office Hours: Spring Term: MW in person 11:30am-1pm; on Zoom by appt.

Daria Smirnova

Comparative Literature Graduate Student/GE
Comparative Literature
Phone: 541-346-0934
Office: 310 Villard Hall
Office Hours: Winter 2020: M 11-12 & W 2-3
Research Interests: 19th- and 20th-century Russian literature and its intersections with European literary traditions in French, English and German; intertextuality and translation

Bennet Smith

Career Instructor
English
Phone: 541-346-1518
Office: 301-H TYKE
Office Hours: Spring Term: TR 12-1:30pm

Rosa Smith

English Graduate Student / GE
English
Phone: 541-346-0529
Office: 261 PLC

Christal Snyder

Folklore Graduate Student
English Department GE
Folklore Program
Phone: 541-346-0272
Office: 466 PLC
Office Hours: S20: MW 12–1:30 via Canvas Chat with Zoom meetings available by appointment. Or by appointment via email to set up a time

Nereida Solórzano

Graduate Student MA Spanish
Language Teaching Studies
Linguistics, Spanish
Research Interests: Bilingual education, Transborder students, Spanish, Heritage language instruction,

Helen Southworth

Professor
Digital Humanities, English
Phone: 541-346-3940
Office: 275 PLC
Office Hours: Not teaching Spring 2024
Research Interests: Autobiography Studies, Digital Humanities, Comics and Cartoon Studies, Cultural Studies, Gender, Sexuality, Queer, and Trans Studies, The Novel, Visual Culture, Modernism Studies

Preetham Sridharan

Graduate Employee
German & Scandinavian, History
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

Cecelia Staggs

PhD Student
General Linguistics Program
Linguistics
Office: 161 Straub Hall

Britany Stagnoli

MA Student
Language Teaching Studies
Linguistics

Jeffrey Staiger

Senior Librarian
Specialist in English, French, Italian, Philosophy & Classics
Romance Languages
Phone: 541-346-1897
Office: 291J Knight Library
Office Hours: <a href="https://uoregon.libcal.com/appointments/jstaiger">Schedule an appointment <a>
Research Interests: Libraries and Literary Culture; The History of the Book; Scholarly Communication; Contemporary Fiction; Literary Theory

Beata Stawarska

Professor of Philosophy
Director of Graduate Studies for Advising/Curriculum Committee/GTF Appointment Committee/Graduate Placing Committee/Graduate Philosophy Club
Black Studies, Comparative Literature, Philosophy
Phone: 541-346-5545
Office: 247 Susan Campbell Hall
Research Interests: Contemporary European Philosophy, Phenomenology, Structuralism and Post-Structuralism, Philosophical Psychology, Feminism

Richard Stein

Professor Emeritus
English
Phone: 541-346-3926
Office: 473 PLC
Office Hours:

Daniel Steinhart

Asst Prof in Journalism/Cinema
Cinema Studies Program, Digital Humanities
Phone: 541-346-2360
Office: 102 PLC
Office Hours: Spring 23, Monday 2:00-4:00 p.m.

Jiesha Stephens

English Graduate Student
English
Phone: 541-346-0049
Office: 355 PLC
Research Interests: African American, Caribbean, Afro-Latinx Literature, Visual Culture Studies, and Women of Color Feminisms

Michael Stern

Associate Professor of German & Scandinavian
Director of Undergraduate Studies Scandinavian
German & Scandinavian
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.

Richard Stevenson

Professor Emeritus
English
Phone: 541-346-3966
Office: 457 PLC
Office Hours:

Ash Stewart

ASU4 Faculty Support
Human Physiology, Linguistics, Psychology
Phone: 541-346-1690
Office: 125 Straub Hall

Glenda S. Stewart

Student Records Specialist
American English Institute
Phone: 541-346-5767
Office: 220 Agate Hall

Caleb Stiles

English Graduate Student
English

Leticia Stival

Events and Communications Coordinator
Black Studies, Cinema Studies Program, CLLAS, Creative Writing Program, History, IRES, Latinx, Native American Studies, Theatre Arts, Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies
Phone: 541-346-0188
Office: 201 McKenzie Hall

Cynthia Stockwell

Office Manager/Project Manager
Comparative Literature
Office: 314 Villard Hall

Tim Strikwerda

PhD Student
East Asian Languages
Phone: 541-346-4656
Office: UO Annex, Ste 3
Research Interests: Postwar Japanese literature, film, and cultural history.

Samantha Stringham

English Graduate Student/ GE
English

Laurel Sturgis O'Coyne

Instructor of Composition
English
Phone: 541-346-0934
Office: 310 Villard Hall
Office Hours: Not teaching in ENG Spring 2024
Research Interests: Hemispheric American literatures, Eco-criticism and environmental literatures, Indigenous studies, translation studies, women and gender studies, post-colonial theory and literatures, food studies, memory and temporality.

Anu Sugathan

English Graduate Student / GE
English
Phone: 541-346-0014
Office: PLC 204
Office Hours: Spring Term: W 10am-1pm
Research Interests: Visual Culture, Comics Studies, Postcolonial Studies, South Asian Literature and Cinema

Hakyung Sung

PhD Student
General Linguistics Program
Linguistics
Office: 270 Straub Hall

Feiya Suo

PhD Student
East Asian Languages
Office: 6 Friendly Hall

Mortdecai (Isobel) Sweeney

English Graduate Student
English
Office Hours: Tutor - no office hours

Julie Sykes

Professor
Director of Center for Applied Second Language Studies
Language Teaching Studies, Linguistics
Phone: 541-346-5699
Office: 1600 Millrace Dr., Ste 201
Office Hours: By appointment only