Humanities

David Wacks

Professor of Spanish
Medieval Studies, Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages
Phone: 541-346-4029
Office: 105C Friendly Hall, 1233 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1233
Office Hours: On leave through Spring 2025
Research Interests: Medieval Iberian literature and culture, Sephardic studies, Mediterranean Studies

Angela Waddell

Career Instructor
English
Phone: Email is best
Office: TYK 301 D
Office Hours: Fall 2024: T: 9am - 9:30, 2pm - 3:30pm; TH: 2pm - 3pm
Research Interests: Rhetoric, Community Teaching

Eleanor Wakefield

Career Instructor
English
Phone: 541-346-0055
Office: 301B Tykeson Hall
Office Hours: Spring Term: M 1-2pm, R 1-3pm, & by appt.

Sarah D. Wald

Associate Professor, Environmental Studies & English
Director of Graduate Admissions for English
English, Environmental Studies, Food Studies, IRES, Latinx
Phone: 541-346-1613
Office: 443 PLC
Office Hours: Spring Term: Wednesday, 12:30pm-2:30pm PLC 443
Research Interests: Environmental Justice, Environmental Humanities, Asian American Literary and Cultural Studies, Latinx Literary and Cultural Studies, Food Studies, Farmworker Justice, Immigration/Migration, 20/21st Century US Literature, American Studies

Kirstin Waldkoenig

ABD Ph.D.
Philosophy
Phone: n/a
Office: Zoom only 2024-2025
Office Hours: by request
Research Interests: Environmental philosophy, feminist philosophy, body & materiality, ethics

Karen E. Walker

Associate Professor (On Sabbatical 2023-2024)
Associate Professor
Creative Writing Program
Phone: 541-346-0544
Office: 212 Alder Bldg

Michael Walker

Scene Shop Coordinator
Theatre Arts
Phone: 541-346-4105
Office: 117A Theatre Arts

Ryan Walker

Graduate Student, Department of Comparative Literature
Comparative Literature, English
Office: 316 PLC
Office Hours: Mondays 11-12 & Wednesdays 10-12
Research Interests: Ancient Greek & Latin literatures; English & German Romanticism; Mythology, Philosophy, & Literature; Classical Reception; Poetics; Criticism & Theory; Epics, "National Epics"; Literature of Empire; Secularization; magic and (dis)enchantment in modernity

Glynne Walley

Associate Professor, Japanese Literature
East Asian Languages, Folklore Program, School of Global Studies and Languages
Office: 423 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Fall 2024: Thursdays 5:30-7:30 pm

Yugen Wang

Professor, Chinese Literature, Department Head
East Asian Languages
Phone: 541-346-3503
Office: 304 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Fall 2024, WED 3-5 pm

Peter A. Warnek

Associate Professor of Philosophy
Philosophy
Office: 246 Susan Campbell Hall, 1295 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1295
Office Hours: Fall 2023: Tuesdays, 2-3 pm; Thursdays, 11 am -12 pm.
Research Interests: Ancient Philosophy, 19th-20th Century Continental Philosophy, Kant, Philosophy of Nature, Myth, Tragedy, History of Philosophy

Janet Wasko

Interim Director and Professor, Media Studies Program
Emeritus Knight Chair in Communication Research; Affiliated Faculty, New Media & Culture Program
SOJC, SOJC-Media Studies Master's, SOJC-Media Studies PhD, SOJC-Media Studies Undergrad, Cinema Studies
Phone: 541-346-4174
Office: 208 Allen Hall

Jack Watson

Associate Professor Emeritus
Theatre Arts
Phone: 541-346-4187
Office: 210 Villard Hall

Paul Watts-Offret

Instructor of Composition
English
Phone: 541-346-1338

Amy Weeden

Graduate Student in Folklore
Folklore Program

Ed Weiser

Courtesy Professor Of Practice
Philosophy
Research Interests: Medical Ethics, Neuroethics, Philosophy of Sport, and Sports Ethics as related to health and well-being

Peg Weiser

Courtesy Professor
Philosophy
Research Interests: Aesthetics, Feminist Aesthetics, Philosophy of Sport, Sports Ethics as related to gender, race, and social justice

Anita Weiss

Professor Emerita
Global Studies, Religious Studies
Phone: 541-346-3245
Office: 307 PLC, 5206 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-5206
Office Hours: Tuesdays 1-3 pm & by appointment
Research Interests: Pakistan: development, women's rights, political Islam

Rachel Weissler

Assistant Professor
Black Studies, Linguistics
Office: Straub Hall 375
Office Hours: Wed 11:00a-1:00p and by appt NOTE: Dr. Weissler will be on leave Spring 2024
Research Interests: sociolinguistics, emotion perception, neurolinguistics, language and social justice

Maia Wellborn

Ph.D.
Philosophy
Phone: 541-346-7352
Office: Susan Campbell Hall 11B
Office Hours: Mondays 10:00AM-12:00PM
Research Interests: 20th Century Continental Philosophy, Critical Phenomenology, Feminist Philosophy, Queer and Trans Studies

Louise Westling

Professor Emerita
College Scholars, English, Food Studies

Mark Whalan

Professor
Head of English, Horn Endowed Professor
English
Phone: 541-346-3926
Office: 207 PLC, 1286 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286
Office Hours: By appointment
Research Interests: African American Literary Studies, American Studies, Modernism Studies, Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity

Nathan Whalen

Senior Instructor II of Spanish
Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish
Phone: 541-346-4257
Office: 422 Friendly
Office Hours: Wednesday 11-1

Elizabeth (Betsy) Wheeler

Professor
Comics and Cartoon Studies, Disability Studies, English
Phone: 541-346-3929
Office: 238 PLC, 1286 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286
Office Hours: Spring Term: MW 2:30-4pm in person (drop-in or by appt.) or on Zoom by appt. (email for appt.)
Research Interests: Disability Studies, Comics and Cartoon Studies, American Studies, Postmodern and Contemporary Literary Studies, Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity

Dakota Whisler

PhD Student
General Linguistics Program
Linguistics
Office: 264 Straub Hall

George Wickes

Professor Emeritus
English
Office Hours:

Jenée Wilde

Senior Instructor of English
CSWS Dissemination Specialist
English
Phone: 541-346-8033
Office: 331 PLC
Office Hours: Fall 2024 Term: TR 10-1:30 am or by appt.
Research Interests: gender and sexuality studies, queer studies, science fiction, folklore, popular culture, creative nonfiction writing

Olivia Wilkinson

Student Office Worker
German & Scandinavian
Office: Office 114 Friendly Hall

Jerry Williams

Professor Emeritus
Member United Scenic Design 829 New York
Theatre Arts

Julie Williams-Reyes

Graduate Student
GE
Philosophy
Office: 11A Susan Campbell Hall
Office Hours: Mondays 12–1:50pm
Research Interests: feminisms, environmental philosophy, critical theory, social-political philosophies, pragmatism, Latin American philosophy

Misti R. Williamsen

Instructor
Senior Instructor I
American English Institute
Phone: 541-346-3945
Office: 213 Agate Hall

Colin Williamson

Assistant Professor
Cinema Studies
Phone: 541-346-1333
Office: 271 PLC
Research Interests: Animation, special effects & nontheatrical film; early cinema’s place in int'l histories of art, science & tech; history of film theory, representations of the landscape in American cinema, media archaeology, & experimental uses of film & media archives

Katherine Wilson

English Graduate Student
English

Malcolm Wilson

Professor of Classics
Classics, Humanities Program, SAIL
Phone: 541-346-4155
Office: 320 Susan Campbell Hall, 1267 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1267
Office Hours: Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays 11:00am-12:00pm
Research Interests: Ancient Philosophy; The history of science and the philosophical issues surrounding the organization of systematic knowledge in antiquity; Greek Philosophy; Aristotle; Greek Intellectual History

Nick Wirtz

Comparative Literature Graduate Student
English Department GE
Comparative Literature
Phone: 541-346-0050
Office: 269 PLC
Research Interests: Realisms and countervisuality, reference and materiality, comics, photography, history and autobiography, visual rhetoric, visual culture, media genealogy.

John Witte

Senior Instructor Emeritus
English
Office Hours: Checking email intermittently

Genevieve Witter

English Graduate Student/ GE
English

Daniel Wojcik

Professor
English, Folklore Program
Phone: 541-346-3946
Office: 463 PLC, 1286 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286
Office Hours: Fall Term: Tues. & Thurs., 3:00-5:15 pm
Research Interests: Artistry & Expressive Culture, Ethnology & Folklore Studies, Mythology & Religious Culture

Juan Eduardo Wolf

Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology
Director of Latin American Studies; Coordinator, UO World Music Series & Ethnomusicology
Folklore Program, Music, SAIL
Phone: 541-346-2852
Office: 126 Frohnmayer Music Bldg
Research Interests: Latin America, decolonial thought, ethnography, folkloristics

Henry Wonham

Professor
English
Phone: 541-346-3266
Office: 454 Tykeson Hall
Office Hours: No office hours; available by email

Sunhee Woo

Korean language instructor
Renewable non-tenure-track faculty
East Asian Languages, Korean
Phone: 541-346-7166
Office: 308 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Wed1:30~3:30 p.m.

Mary Wood

Professor
Disability Studies, English
Phone: 541-346-3010
Office: 445 PLC, 1286 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286
Office Hours: Spring Term: R 12:30-2pm in person; W 4-5:30pm on Zoom (ID: 932 4715 9358)
Research Interests: 19th Century American Literary Studies, Autobiography Studies, Feminism Studies Gender and Sexuality Studies, Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity

Alohi Wright

Undergraduate Program Coordinator
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Black Studies, CLLAS, Creative Writing Program, History, IRES, Latinx, Native American Studies, Theatre Arts, Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies, Cinema Studies
Phone: 541-346-9736
Office: 201B McKenzie Hall
Research Interests: Coonhounds, butter mochi, decorating for the holidays, remembering what life was like when I had hobbies, thinking about reading all the books on my nightstand, and Schitt's Creek.

Michelle Wright

Media Coordinator
Black Studies, CLLAS, Creative Writing Program, History, IRES, Latinx, Native American Studies, Theatre Arts, Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies, Cinema Studies
Phone: 541-346-8261
Office: 275 McKenzie Hall
Research Interests: Graphic design; communications; website, newsletter, and social media content and updates

Jean Wu

Senior Instructor II, Chinese Language
Chinese Flagship Academic Director
East Asian Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages
Phone: 541-346-4098
Office: 402 Friendly Hall