Humanities

Madison Kooba

English Graduate Student/ GE
English
Office Hours: Mondays 12pm - 2pm<br /> Tuesdays 12:30pm - 1:30pm

Caroline Koopford

Pro Tem Instructor
Creative Writing Program

Colin Koopman

Professor of Philosophy
Director of New Media and Culture Certificate & Pre-Law Advisor
Philosophy
Phone: 541-346-5980
Office: 250A Susan Campbell Hall, 1295 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1295
Office Hours: Fall Term office hours are by appointment in light of my course (the Pedagogy Seminar) being a high-contact graduate course; I can regularly make myself available to students in this course either just after or before course meetings (as well as other times).
Research Interests: Political Philosophy, Information Politics and Data Ethics, Social Impacts of AI, History of Philosophy, Genealogy, Pragmatism

Finn Koval

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

Anna Kovalchuk

Associate Teaching Professor
English
Phone: 541-346-9657
Office: 301A Tykeson Hall, 1286 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286
Office Hours: Fall Term: Tu/Th 12:00-1:30 &amp; by appt.
Research Interests: rhetoric and composition, comparative and world literature, national narratives, Ukrainian history and literature

Matthias Kramer

Comparative Literature Graduate Student
Comparative Literature
Office Hours: Wednesdays, 11:30-1:30
Research Interests: Speculative Thought and Speculative Fiction, Japanese and Anglophone Literature and Popular Media, Literary Translation, Queer Futurity

Bjørn Ralf Kristensen

ABD Ph.D.
Environmental Studies, Philosophy
Office: 144 COL, 5223 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-5223
Office Hours: By appointment only during Summer 2025
Research Interests: Multispecies Studies, Animal Ethics, Medical and Public Health Ethics, Environmental Philosophy, Hermeneutics, American Pragmatism (John Dewey), Ecofeminism (Val Plumwood), Development Studies, Water and Sanitation, Informal Settlements

Lori Kruckenberg

Professor of Musicology
Medieval Studies, Music
Phone: 541-346-3763
Office: 101 Frohnmayer Music Bldg
Research Interests: Middle Ages, gender studies

Nessie Kurganova

GE Russian Language Instructor
Graduate student
Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, School of Global Studies and Languages
Office Hours: M 2-3 &amp; T 10-11 or by appt
Research Interests: Language pedagogy, gender discourse

Nayoung Kwon

Associate Professor, Korean Linguistics
Korean Sector Representative
East Asian Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages

Kris Kyle

Associate Professor
Language Teaching Studies, Linguistics
Phone: 541-346-3808
Office: 273 Straub Hall, 1290 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1290
Office Hours: By appointment

Charles Lachman

Associate Professor Emeritus
History Art & Arch, Medieval Studies
Phone: 541-346-2130
Office: 168 Lawrence Hall

Flora Lam

Graduate Student
East Asian Languages
Office: FR027
Research Interests: second language acquisition, bilingualism, multilingualism

Katheryne Laqua

English Graduate Student/ GE
English
Office Hours: S25: Wednesday: 10:00am-11:30am, Thursday: 1:30pm-3:00pm (Zoom Only), and by appointment

Wendy Larson

Professor Emerita, Chinese Literature
Asian Studies, East Asian Languages
Office: 301 Friendly Hall, 1248 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1248

Anne Laskaya

Associate Professor, Emerita
English
Phone: 541-346-1517
Office: 454 PLC, 1286 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286
Office Hours: Fall Term 2025 : Via Zoom M, TU 1-2:30 pm, &amp; by appointment. Email me to arrange an individual appointment and for Zoom room information, if you need it: laskaya@uoregon.edu<br /> Hours begin Week Two, October 6th.
Research Interests: Medieval Literary and Cultural Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Word and Image in late Medieval Manuscript Culture

Sam Lasman

Assistant Professor of English
English, Medieval Studies
Office: PLC 273
Office Hours: By appointment (email me)
Research Interests: Medieval Literature, Celtic Studies, Iranian Studies, Animal & Nonhuman Studies, Monster Studies, Ecocriticism, Folklore & Mythology, Epic & Romance, Modern Medievalism, Contemporary Fantasy

Marena Lear

Comparative Literature Graduate Student/ GE
Comparative Literature
Phone: 541-346-1515
Office: 23 PLC
Research Interests: Interests: Latin American and Latinx film & media, decoloniality, new materialism, posthuman feminism, science fiction and gothic genre studies

Changhoon Lee

Pro tem Korean Language Instructor
East Asian Languages

Joonpyo Lee

Graduate Student
East Asian Languages
Office Hours: F 2:00 - 2:50
Research Interests: Textual Critique, Early Chinese Historical Wiring, Chinese Classics Studies (經學), Chinese Classics (儒家經傳), Excavated Texts