Medieval Studies Faculty
Ina Asim
Associate Professor
Asian Studies, Food Studies, History, Medieval Studies
Email: inaasim@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-6161
Office: 317 McKenzie Hall, 1288 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1205
Martha Bayless
Professor, English
English, Folklore Program, Food Studies, Humanities Program, Medieval Studies
Email: mjbayles@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3930
Office: 344 PLC, 1286 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286
Office Hours: On sabbatical; please email.
Research Interests: Folklore, Medieval Studies, Cultural Studies, Food Studies
Stephanie Clark
Associate Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies
English, Medieval Studies
Email: sclark11@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3960
Office: 374 PLC, 1286 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286
Office Hours: Spring 2025: Tuesday 11-2, and by appt.
Research Interests: Medieval Literary and Cultural Studies, Old English, Religion and Mythology, Gift Theory
Stephen Dueppen
Professor
Anthropology, Medieval Studies, Black Studies
Email: dueppen@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5525
Office: 252 Condon Hall, University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-5275
Office Hours: By Appointment
Fernando Gorab Leme
Assistant Professor of Classics
Classics, Medieval Studies
Email: fleme@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: By appointment
Research Interests: Ancient poetics, performance studies, gender, epideictic rhetoric, reception studies
Deborah Green
Greenberg Associate Professor, Hebrew Language & Literature
Humanities Program, Middle East and North African Studies, Medieval Studies, Religious Studies
Email: dagreen@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5974
Office: 352 Susan Campbell Hall, 1267 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1267
Office Hours: TBA
Gantt Gurley
Associate Professor
Faculty Fellow, CHC
Clark Honors College, Folklore Program, German & Scandinavian, Judaic Studies Program, Medieval Studies, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: gantt@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4055
Office: Chapman Hall 323
Office Hours: MW 1:30-3:30 and/or by appointment
Research Interests: Ancient and medieval song culture, Indo-Iranian philology, historical linguistics, contemporary Israeli art, minority Jewish communities, the birth of the Jewish novel, history of antisemitism, Jewish narrative and legend, Tel-Aviv school of narratology, 19th century literature, the Wandering Jew, comparative mythology and theory of myth, Long Romanticism, Old Norse literature, the lyrical mode, Hans Christian Andersen, Franz Kafka, and notions of religiosity in the Danish Golden Age.
David Hollenberg
Professor
Arabic and Islamic Studies
Arabic Studies, Middle East and North African Studies, Medieval Studies, Religious Studies
Email: dbh@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-8096
Office: 349 Susan Campbell Hall, 1294 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1294
Office Hours: Thursday 12:00pm-1:00pm and by appointment
Maile Hutterer
Associate Professor
Director/Advisor, Medieval Studies Program
History Art & Arch, Medieval Studies
Email: msh@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-8229
Office: 253 Lawrence Hall, 5229 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-5229
Research Interests: Medieval art, architecture, and urban development
Mary Jaeger
Professor, Graduate Advisor
Classics, Food Studies, Humanities Program, Medieval Studies
Email: maryjaeg@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4068
Office: 335 Susan Campbell Hall, 1267 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1267
Office Hours: By appointment only
Lori Kruckenberg
Professor of Musicology
Medieval Studies, Music
Email: lorkruck@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3763
Office: 101 Frohnmayer Music Bldg
Research Interests: Middle Ages, gender studies
Sam Lasman
Assistant Professor of English
English, Medieval Studies
Email: slasman@uoregon.edu
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
Ximing Lu
Assistant Professor
Classics, Medieval Studies
Email: ximinglu@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4922
Research Interests: Latin literature, Roman education, slavery, Global classics
Eric Mentzel
Professor of Voice
Medieval Studies, Music
Email: mentzel@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3780
Office: 260 Frohnmayer Music Bldg, 1225 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1225
Research Interests: Music Performance, Vocal Performance and Choral Studies, Early Music/Historical Performance Practice
Stephen Shoemaker
Professor; Department Head, Religious Studies
History of Christianity
Humanities Program, Middle East and North African Studies, Medieval Studies, Religious Studies, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies
Email: sshoemak@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4998
Office: 348 Susan Campbell Hall, 1294 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1294
Office Hours: By appointment only
Mark T. Unno
Professor of Religious Studies
East Asian Religions, Japanese Buddhism, Classical Japanese Buddhism, Early Chinese Thought, Comparative Ethics, Buddhism and Psychotherapy
Asian Studies, Medieval Studies, Religious Studies
Email: munno@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4973
Office: 334 Susan Campbell Hall, 1294 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1294
Office Hours: Mondays 4:30pm-5:15pm on Zoom, Tuesdays 1:00pm-1:45pm on Zoom and by appointment
Lily Vuong
Associate Professor
Religious Studies, Medieval Studies
Email: lvuong@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4904
Office Hours: M/W 9:30-10:30 or by appointment.
Research Interests: Early Christianity, Early Judaism, Christian Apocryphal and Pseudepigraphal writings, Representations of Women and the Construction of Gender in the Ancient World, Jewish and Christian Identities and Relations in Late Antiquity, Literary and Feminist Approaches to Biblical Interpretation.
David Wacks
Professor of Spanish
Romance Languages, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages, Medieval Studies
Email: wacks@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4029
Office: 105C Friendly Hall, 1233 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1233
Office Hours: Tuesday 11:30-1:30 and by appointment
Research Interests: Medieval Iberian literature and culture, Sephardic studies, Mediterranean Studies
Yugen Wang
Professor of Chinese Literature
East Asian Languages, Medieval Studies
Email: ygwang@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3503
Office: 304 Friendly Hall, 1248 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1205
Office Hours: Winter 2026, WED 11 am-1 pm, on Zoom