Humanities
David Wacks
Professor of Spanish: Department Head, Romance Languages
Romance Languages
Email: wacks@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4029
Office: 105C Friendly Hall
Office Hours: By appointment https://tinyurl.com/yfw9rr35
Research Interests: Medieval Iberian literature and culture, Sephardic studies, Mediterranean Studies
Angela Waddell
Career Instructor
English
Email: awaddell@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-8750
Office: 228C PLC
Office Hours: Winter Term: M 2-3:30pm, W 11am-12pm, F 11-11:30am
Erin Wai
Folklore Graduate Student/ ENG GE
English, Folklore Program
Email: ewai@uoregon.edu
Office: 213 PLC
Office Hours: Winter Term: MW 3-4:30pm
Eleanor Wakefield
Career Instructor
English
Email: ewakefie@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0055
Office: 301B Tykeson Hall
Office Hours: By appt. only
Sarah D. Wald
Associate Professor, Environmental Studies & English
Director of Graduate Admissions for English
English, Environmental Studies, Food Studies, IRES, Latinx
Email: sdwald@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1613
Office: 443 PLC
Office Hours: Winter Term: M 4:15-5pm (in Person or Zoom), T 2-4:15pm (Zoom by appt)
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
Lindsey Waldrop
Graduate Student
East Asian Languages
Email: waldrop@uoregon.edu
Office: Friendly Hall 27
Research Interests: Late-imperial Chinese Literature
Karen E. Walker
Associate Professor (On Sabbatical 2023-2024)
Associate Professor
Creative Writing Program
Email: ktwalker@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0544
Office: 212 Alder Bldg
Michael Walker
Scene Shop Coordinator
Theatre Arts
Email: mwalker9@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4105
Office: 117A Theatre Arts
Ryan Walker
Graduate Student, Department of Comparative Literature
Comparative Literature
Email: rwalker9@uoregon.edu
Office: 313 Villard Hall
Office Hours: Thursdays 12:00-1:00 PM
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
Email: glynne@uoregon.edu
Office: 423 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Winter 2024: by appointment
Xiaoyu Wang
PhD candidate
Japanese GE
East Asian Languages
Email: xwang12@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4656
Office: UO Annex, Ste 3
Research Interests: Okinawan literature, minority literature, Japanese television drama
Yugen Wang
Professor, Chinese Literature, Department Head
East Asian Languages
Email: ygwang@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3503
Office: 304 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Winter 2024, WED 11-1
Peter A. Warnek
Associate Professor of Philosophy
German & Scandinavian, Philosophy
Email: warnek@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5542
Office: 246 Susan Campbell Hall
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
Professor and Emeritus Knight Chair in Communication Research
Affiliated Faculty, New Media & Culture Program
Cinema Studies Program, SOJC, SOJC-Media Studies Master's, SOJC-Media Studies PhD, SOJC-Media Studies Undergrad
Email: jwasko@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4174
Office: 208 Allen Hall
Jack Watson
Associate Professor Emeritus
Theatre Arts
Email: jwatson@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4187
Office: 210 Villard Hall
Anita Weiss
Professor
Global Studies, Religious Studies
Email: aweiss@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3245
Office: 307 PLC
Office Hours: Tuesdays 1-3 pm & by appointment
Research Interests: Pakistan: development, women's rights, political Islam
Alex Weissenberger
Undergraduate and Office Coordinator
East Asian Languages, German & Scandinavian, Japanese, Korean
Email: aweisse2@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0951
Office: 114 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: M-F 8:30-4:30
Research Interests: Traveling, Scandinavian Culture, Photography, Hiking
Rachel Weissler
Assistant Professor
Black Studies, Linguistics
Email: rweissle@uoregon.edu
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
Louise Westling
Professor Emerita
College Scholars, English, Food Studies
Email: lhwest@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3938
Office: 827 PLC
Mark Whalan
Professor
Head of English, Horn Endowed Professor
English
Email: whalan@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3926
Office: 207 PLC
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, Spanish
Email: natewh@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4257
Office: 422 Friendly
Office Hours: Friday 10-12 or by appointment
Elizabeth (Betsy) Wheeler
Professor
Comics and Cartoon Studies, Disability Studies, English
Email: ewheeler@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3929
Office: 238 PLC
Office Hours: Winter Term: MW 2-3:30pm
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
Email: dwhisler@uoregon.edu
Office: 264 Straub Hall
Kendall Wilber
Academic Programs Assistant
Black Studies, Cinema Studies Program, Creative Writing Program, History, IRES, Latinx, Native American Studies, Theatre Arts, Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies
Email: kwilber@uoregon.edu
Office: 201 McKenzie Hall
Research Interests: Frogs, Irish folk songs, animation, and cheesecake.
Jenée Wilde
Senior Instructor of English
CSWS Dissemination Specialist
English
Email: jenee@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-8033
Office: 331 PLC
Office Hours: 2024 Winter Term: TR 3:30-5pm 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
Email: owilkin2@uoregon.edu
Office: Office 114 Friendly Hall
Misti R. Williamsen
Instructor
Senior Instructor I
American English Institute
Email: misti@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3945
Office: 213 Agate Hall
Colin Williamson
Faculty
Cinema Studies Program
Email: colinwil@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1333
Office: 271 PLC
Malcolm Wilson
Professor of Classics
Classics, Humanities Program, Philosophy, SAIL
Email: mwilson@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4155
Office: 320 Susan Campbell Hall
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
Email: nwirtz@uoregon.edu
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
Email: jwitte@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5935
Office: 206 PLC
Office Hours: Checking email intermittently
Daniel Wojcik
Professor
English
Email: dwojcik@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3946
Office: 463 PLC
Office Hours: Winter Term: MW 1:15-3pm
Research Interests: Cultural Studies, Folklore Studies, Religion & Mythology
Lisa Wolverton
Professor
Clark Honors College, History, Medieval Studies, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies
Email: lwolvert@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-6158
Office: 325 McKenzie Hall
Office Hours: MTuWTh 9:50-10:20 in Chapman 105; M 3-5 pm in Chapman 128
Henry Wonham
Professor
English
Email: wonham@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3266
Office: 436 Tykeson Hall
Office Hours: No office hours; available by email
Sunhee Woo
Korean language instructor
Renewable non-tenure-track faculty
East Asian Languages, Korean
Email: swoo@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-7166
Office: 308 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Tue,Thur 12:00~1:00 p.m.
Mary Wood
Professor
Disability Studies, English
Email: mewood@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3010
Office: 445 PLC
Office Hours: Winter Term: MW 1:15-3pm
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, Cinema Studies Program, CLLAS, Creative Writing Program, History, IRES, Latinx, Native American Studies, Theatre Arts, Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies
Email: awright8@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4171
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, Cinema Studies Program, CLLAS, Creative Writing Program, History, IRES, Latinx, Native American Studies, Theatre Arts, Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies
Email: mlwright@uoregon.edu
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
Email: jeanywu@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4098
Office: 402 Friendly Hall