Russian East European and Eurasian Studies Faculty
Aneesh Aneesh
Executive Director, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages
Interim Director, Middle East and North African Studies
German & Scandinavian, Global Studies, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages, African Studies, Asian Studies, East Asian Languages, European Studies, Middle East and North African Studies, Romance Languages, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies
Email: aaneesh@uoregon.edu
Office: 202B Agate hall
Research Interests: Globalization, technology, labor, migration, citizenship, theory
Roy Chan
Associate Professor, Chinese Literature
Director of Graduate Studies, East Asian Languages & Literatures
Comparative Literature, East Asian Languages, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: rbc@uoregon.edu
Office: on leave 2026-2027
Office Hours: On leave 2026-2027
Research Interests: Modern Chinese and Russian Literatures, Critical Theory, Formalism, Affect Studies, Sociolinguistic Literary Criticism
Katya Hokanson
Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature
Director of Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, Head, Department of Comparative Literature
Comparative Literature, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: hokanson@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3947
Office: 357 PLC, 1249 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Office Hours: Fall 2026: Wednesdays and Fridays from 9:30-11 a.m. and by appointment.
Research Interests: 19th-century Russian literature, women's writing, and Russian colonialism.
Susanna Lim
Associate Professor of Literature, Russian Studies, and Korean Studies
Director of REEES Graduate Studies
College of Arts and Sciences, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages, East Asian Languages
Email: susannal@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0691
Office: 1715 Franklin Blvd., Rm 101, 1293 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1293
Research Interests: Korean Studies, Korean Literature, Korean Popular Culture, Race Studies, Race in South Korea, Russian Studies, Koryo Saram, Diaspora, Post-colonialism
Jenifer Presto
Associate Professor of Comparative Literature
Comparative Literature, Digital Humanities, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies
Email: presto@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-485-7400
Office: 346 PLC
Office Hours: Fall 2026: Tues. and Thurs. 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. or by appt.
Research Interests: Modernism, Gender Studies, Environmental Criticism, Visual Culture, Digital Humanities, Russian-Italian Cultural Interactions, and Immigrant Arts
Lara Ravitch
Teaching Professor
Russian Language Coordinator & Director of Undergraduate Studies
Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: ravitch@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4077
Office: 202A Agate Hall, 1262 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Office Hours: By appointment
Research Interests: Language & Identity, Universal Design for Learning, Experiential Learning