Faculty
Michael Aronson
- Title: Associate Professor
- Additional Title: Director of Cinema Studies
- E-mail: aronson@uoregon.edu
- Phone: 541-346-8104
- Office: 201B McKenzie Hall
- Office Hours: Spring term: By appointment
Martha Bayless
- Title: Professor, English
- E-mail: mjbayles@uoregon.edu
- Phone: 541-346-3930
- Office: 344 PLC
- Office Hours: On leave 2017-18
Carolyn Bergquist
- Title: Senior Lecturer
- Additional Title: Director of Composition
- E-mail: cjb@uoregon.edu
- Phone: 541-346-2695
- Office: 124 PLC
- Office Hours: M 11-12:30; T 1-2:30 & by appt spring term
Elizabeth Bohls
- Title: Professor
- Additional Title: Associate Department Head
- E-mail: ebohls@uoregon.edu
- Phone: 541-346-5484
- Office: 527 PLC
- Office Hours: W 12:00-3:00 & by appt. spring term
Tina Boscha
- Title: Senior Instructor
- Additional Title: Assistant Department Head
- E-mail: tinarb@uoregon.edu
- Phone: 541-346-0056
- Office: 236 PLC
- Office Hours: TR 12:00-1:30 spring term
Lara Bovilsky
- Title: Associate Professor
- Additional Title: Director of Graduate Studies
- E-mail: bovilsky@uoregon.edu
- Phone: 541-346-1309
- Office: 246 PLC
- Office Hours: M 11:15-12:45, W 12-1:30 or by appt. spring term
Kirby Brown
- Title: Assistant Professor, Native American Studies; English Department
- E-mail: kbrown@uoregon.edu
- Phone: 541-346-5819
- Office: 523 PLC
- Office Hours: T 4-5 W 9-11 PLC 523; W 5-6 KIH 111 & by appt. spring term
- Affiliated Departments: Ethnic Studies
Katherine Brundan
- Title: Instructor
- E-mail: kbrundan@uoregon.edu
- Phone: 541-346-0528
- Office: 218 Villard Hall
- Office Hours: MW 2:00-3:00, T 12:00-1:00 spring term
- Interests: 19th century European novel, trauma studies, gender, and sensationalism
Kristy Bryant-Berg
- Title: Career Instructor
- E-mail: kbryantb@uoregon.edu
- Phone: 541-346-3975
- Office: 343 PLC
- Office Hours: MWF 9:00-10:00 a.m. spring term
Anna Carroll
- Title: Pro Tem Instructor
- E-mail: acarroll@uoregon.edu
- Phone: 541-346-1518
- Office: 104 PLC
- Office Hours: MWF 10:30-11:30 spring term
Ulrick Casimir
- Title: ProTem Instructor
- E-mail: ucasimir@uoregon.edu
- Phone: 541-346-1513
- Office: 22 PLC
- Office Hours: Not teaching ENG/WR spring term
Stephanie Clark
- Title: Associate Professor
- E-mail: sclark11@uoregon.edu
- Phone: 541-346-3960
- Office: 374 PLC
- Office Hours: T 2-5pm spring term
Kara Clevinger
- Title: Career Instructor
- E-mail: kclev@uoregon.edu
- Phone: 541-346-1514
- Office: 22 PLC
- Office Hours: T 10-11:30, R 1:30-3 spring term
Michael Copperman
- Title: Senior Instructor
- E-mail: mcopperm@uoregon.edu
- Phone: 541-346-0063
- Office: 34 PLC
- Office Hours: MWF 11-12 spring term
James Crosswhite
- Title: Professor
- E-mail: jcross@uoregon.edu
- Phone: 541-346-3956
- Office: 258 PLC
- Office Hours: MWF 11:00-12:00 spring term
- Affiliated Departments: Comparative Literature Department
Vanessa Cutz
- Title: ProTem Instructor
- E-mail: vcutz@uoregon.edu
- Phone: 541-346-3924
- Office: 213 PLC
- Office Hours: Not teaching ENG/WR courses spring term
Brent Dawson
- Title: Assistant Professor
- E-mail: bdawson@uoregon.edu
- Phone: 541-346-3965
- Office: 465 PLC
- Office Hours: By appointment or email spring term
Dianne Dugaw
- Title: Professor
- E-mail: dugaw@uoregon.edu
- Phone: 541-346-1496
- Office: 458 PLC
- Office Hours: Available by email
James Earl
- Title: Professor Emeritus
- Additional Title: English Department
- E-mail: jwearl@uoregon.edu
- Affiliated Departments: Religious Studies
Jordache Ellapen
- Title: Assistant Professor
- E-mail: jellapen@uoregon.edu
- Phone: 541-346-0994
- Office: 256 PLC
- Office Hours: MW 1-2:30 spring term
- Interests: Black Queer Studies/Queer African Studies/Queer of Color Critique, Aesthetic practices of Africa and the African diaspora, Visual Culture, Cinema Studies, Race and Racial Formations, Diaspora Studies
Erica Elliott
- Title: Pro-tem Instructor
- E-mail: eelliot1@uoregon.edu
- Phone: 541-346-3988
- Office: 101 PLC
- Office Hours: Not teaching ENG/WR spring term
Tara Fickle
- Title: Assistant Professor, English Department
- E-mail: tfickle@uoregon.edu
- Phone: 541-346-3979
- Office: 372 PLC
- Office Hours: W 12:00-3:00 spring term
- Affiliated Departments: Asian Studies, Ethnic Studies
- Interests: Asian/Asian American Literature, Digital Humanities, Game Studies, Graphic Fiction & Comics
- Website: Website
Bill Fogarty
- Title: Instructor of English
- E-mail: wfogarty@uoregon.edu
- Phone: 541-346-1533
- Office: 330 PLC
- Office Hours: On leave AY 17-18
- Interests: Poetry and Poetics, 20th Century American, British, and Irish Literature, African American Poetry
Karen J. Ford
- Title: Professor
- E-mail: fordk@uoregon.edu
- Phone: 541-346-3902
- Office: 118 Friendly Hall
- Office Hours: By appointment through 6-3902 spring term
David Frank
- Title: Professor
- E-mail: dfrank@uoregon.edu
- Phone: 541-346-4198
- Office: 219 PLC
- Office Hours: MW 10:15-12:15 spring term
Lisa Freinkel
- Title: Vice Provost and Dean, Undergraduate Studies
- Additional Title: Associate Professor English and Comparative Literature
- E-mail: freinkel@uoregon.edu
- Phone: 541-346-1221
- Office: 372B Oregon Hall
- Office Hours: Research leave
- Affiliated Departments: Comparative Literature Department
- Interests: Shakespeare and Renaissance literature, theology and contemplative studies, digital humanities, history of philosophy, psychoanalysis and literary theory.
John Gage
- Title: Professor
- Additional Title: Director, Center for Teaching Writing
- E-mail: jgage@uoregon.edu
- Phone: 541-346-3922
- Office: 205 PLC
- Office Hours: By appointment spring term
Brian Gazaille
- Title: Career Instructor
- E-mail: gazaille@uoregon.edu
- Phone: 541-346-5935
- Office: 206 PLC
- Office Hours: TR 10:00-11:30 & by appt. spring term
Miriam Gershow
- Title: Senior Instructor
- Additional Title: Associate Director of Composition
- E-mail: mgershow@uoregon.edu
- Phone: 541-346-0051
- Office: 105 PLC
- Office Hours: M 11:00-12:30, W 12:30-2:00 spring term
Warren Ginsberg
- Title: Professor of English
- Additional Title: Philip H. Knight Professor of Humanities Comparative Literature Program Faculty
- E-mail: warren@uoregon.edu
- Phone: 541-346-3958
- Office: 257 PLC
- Office Hours: TR 11:00-12:00 spring term
- Interests: I am especially interested in examining the aesthetic, social, and political aspects of cross-cultural translation in Chaucer's works.
Sangita Gopal
- Title: Associate Professor of English
- Additional Title: Comparative Literature Program Faculty
- E-mail: sgopal@uoregon.edu
- Phone: 541-346-3567
- Office: 528 PLC
- Office Hours: R 10:00-1:00 spring term
- Affiliated Departments: Comparative Literature Department
- Interests: Postcolonial Theory and Literature, South Asian Visual and Cultural Studies
Joseph Hynes
- Title: Professor Emeritus
- E-mail: hynesj@uoregon.edu
- Phone: 541-346-1613
- Office: 443 PLC
Heidi Kaufman
- Title: Associate Professor
- E-mail: hkaufman@uoregon.edu
- Phone: 541-346-3932
- Office: 365 PLC
- Office Hours: W 10:00-12:00 spring term
- Affiliated Departments: Judaic Studies Program
C. Anne Laskaya
- Title: Associate Professor
- E-mail: laskaya@uoregon.edu
- Phone: 541-346-1517
- Office: 357 PLC
- Office Hours: M 10-12, R 3:35-4:35 & by appt. spring term
- Affiliated Departments: Judaic Studies Program
- Interests: Medieval Studies, Rhetoric & Composition, Manuscript and Book History
Alison Lau
- Title: Career Instructor
- E-mail: alau@uoregon.edu
- Phone: 541-346-3915
- Office: 103 PLC
- Office Hours: On leave 2017-18
Stephanie LeMenager
- Title: Professor
- Additional Title: Moore Endowed Professor
- E-mail: slemen@uoregon.edu
- Phone: 541-346-3966
- Office: 457 PLC
- Office Hours: R 3:30pm-5:30pm; F 12:00pm-1:00pm spring term
- Affiliated Departments: Environmental Studies
- Interests: American Studies, Environmental Humanities
- Website: Website
Lizzy LeRud
- Title: Pro Tem Instructor
- E-mail: lerud@uoregon.edu
- Phone: 541-346-0053
- Office: 214 PLC
- Office Hours: MWF 1-2 spring term
- Interests: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century American Literature, Poetry and Poetics, Multi-Ethnic U.S. Literature, Women's and Gender Studies, Lyric Theory, Literary Formalism
- Website: Website
David Li
- Title: Professor
- Additional Title: Collins Professor of the Humanities
- E-mail: davidlli@uoregon.edu
- Phone: 541-346-3940
- Office: 275 PLC
- Office Hours: MWF 2:00-3:00 & by appointment spring term
Allison McGuffie
- Title: Faculty Fellow
- E-mail: mcguffie@uoregon.edu
- Phone: 541-346-3965
- Office: 465 PLC
- Office Hours: Not teaching ENG spring term
Quinn Miller
- Title: Assistant Professor
- E-mail: qmmiller@uoregon.edu
- Phone: 541-346-3978
- Office: 529 PLC
- Office Hours: R 8:00-11:00 spring term
Kate Myers
- Title: Career Instructor
- Additional Title: Director of Writing Associates
- E-mail: kmyers@uoregon.edu
- Phone: 541-346-1533
- Office: 330 PLC
- Office Hours: WF 12:00-1:30 spring term
- Interests: Early Modern Literature
Brendan O'Kelly
- Title: Career Instructor
- E-mail: bokelly@uoregon.edu
- Phone: 541-346-5935
- Office: 206 PLC
- Office Hours: M 2-3, W 2-4 spring term
- Interests: 20th/21st Century American, British, and Irish Fiction; Critical and Visual Theory; Film Studies; Comics Studies; Digital Humanities
Priscilla Peña Ovalle
- Title: Associate Professor
- Additional Title: Associate Director, Cinema Studies
- E-mail: povalle@uoregon.edu
- Phone: 541-346-0060
- Office: 266 PLC
- Office Hours: T 2:00-4:00 spring term
- Affiliated Departments: Cinema Studies Program, Ethnic Studies
- Interests: media studies, race/ethnicity, dance, mainstream popular culture, media hairstyles, and more...
Paul Peppis
- Title: Professor
- Additional Title: Director, Oregon Humanities Center
- E-mail: ppeppis@uoregon.edu
- Phone: 541-346-7017
- Office: 154 PLC
- Office Hours: THUR 2:00-5:00 spring term
Forest Pyle
- Title: Professor
- E-mail: trespyle@uoregon.edu
- Phone: 541-346-3928
- Office: 270 PLC
- Office Hours: TR 11:35-1:05 spring term
Mark Quigley
- Title: Associate Professor
- E-mail: mquigley@uoregon.edu
- Phone: 541-346-1340
- Office: 525 PLC
- Office Hours: On Leave 2017-18; I will be checking e-mail intermittently during my absence.
Nick Recktenwald
- Title: Career Instructor
- E-mail: nreckten@uoregon.edu
- Phone: 541-346-0058
- Office: 239 PLC
- Office Hours: MF 1-2:30 spring term
William Rossi
- Title: Professor
- E-mail: rossiw@uoregon.edu
- Phone: 541-346-3955
- Office: 363 PLC
- Office Hours: W 12:00-3:00 spring term
George Rowe
- Title: Professor
- E-mail: gerowe@uoregon.edu
- Phone: 541-346-0552
- Office: 207 Alder Bldg
- Office Hours: By appointment
- Affiliated Departments: Creative Writing Program
Stephen Rust
- Title: Career Instructor
- E-mail: srust@uoregon.edu
- Phone: 541-346-0058
- Office: 239 PLC
- Office Hours: MWF 9-10:30 spring term
Ben Saunders
- Title: Professor
- E-mail: ben@uoregon.edu
- Phone: 541-346-0062
- Office: 366 PLC
- Office Hours: F 2:00-5:00 spring term
Rebecca Saxon
- Title: Pro-Tem Instructor/Research Assistant
- E-mail: rsaxon@uoregon.edu
- Affiliated Departments: English Department
Gordon Sayre
- Title: Professor
- Additional Title: Director of Undergraduate Studies
- E-mail: gsayre@uoregon.edu
- Phone: 541-346-1313
- Office: 472 PLC
- Office Hours: T: 2:00-4:00, W 2:00-3:00 spring term
Steven Shankman
- Title: Professor
- Additional Title: UNESCO Chair in Transcultural Studies, Interreligious Dialogue, and Peace
- E-mail: shankman@uoregon.edu
- Phone: 541-346-3997
- Office: 110B Gerlinger Hall
- Office Hours: R 2:00-5:00 spring term
- Interests: Comparative literature, the classical tradition in English and American literature, the eighteenth century, and the history of literary theory
- Website: Website
Emily Simnitt
- Title: Career Instructor, Multilingual Writing Specialist
- Additional Title: Associate Director of Composition
- E-mail: esimnitt@uoregon.edu
- Phone: 541-346-3517
- Office: 102 PLC
- Office Hours: W 9-11, R 11:30-12:30 spring term
- Interests: digital rhetoric, multilingual writing spaces, first year writing
Bjorn Smars
- Title: Pro-tem Instructor
- E-mail: smars@uoregon.edu
- Phone: 541-346-3977
- Office: 223 PLC
- Office Hours: T 9am-12pm spring term
Nathaniel Teich
- Title: Professor Emeritus
- E-mail: nateich@uoregon.edu
- Phone: (541) 346-3982
- Office: 200C Rainier Bldg
Edgar Temam
- Title: Philosophy Department Courtesy Postdoctoral Research Scholar
- Additional Title: Pro Tem Instructor of English
- E-mail: etemam@uoregon.edu
- Phone: 541-346-0061
- Office: 444 PLC
- Office Hours: Not teaching ENG/WR spring term
- Affiliated Departments: English Department, Philosophy Department
- Interests: history of philosophy, critical thinking, basic logic, pedagogy, social & political philosophy--particularly, our thinking about violence & nonviolence, war & peace, force & power, injustice & justice
Courtney Thorsson
- Title: Associate Professor
- E-mail: thorsson@uoregon.edu
- Phone: 541-346-1473
- Office: 521 PLC
- Office Hours: MW 12:00-1:30 spring term
Avinnash Tiwari
- Title: Career Instructor
- E-mail: apt@uoregon.edu
- Phone: 541-346-0061
- Office: 444 PLC
- Office Hours: TR 4-5:30 & by appt. spring term
Brian Trapp
- Title: ProTem Instructor
- E-mail: trapp@uoregon.edu
- Phone: 541-346-0508
- Office: 309 Alder Bldg
- Office Hours: By appointment or email spring term
Corbett Upton
- Title: Career Instructor
- Additional Title: Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies
- E-mail: cupton@uoregon.edu
- Phone: 541-346-3961
- Office: 375 PLC
- Office Hours: TW 1-3 & by appt. spring term
David Vázquez
- Title: Associate Professor, Department of English
- Additional Title: Department Head
- E-mail: vazquez@uoregon.edu
- Phone: 541-346-1516
- Office: 118 PLC
- Office Hours: R 1:00-2:00 & by appt.; schedule appts. at 541-346-1516 spring term
Sarah Wald
- Title: Associate Professor, Environmental Studies
- E-mail: sdwald@uoregon.edu
- Phone: 541-346-1613
- Office: 443 PLC
- Office Hours: THUR 1:30-3:30 and 6:00-7:00pm spring term
- Affiliated Departments: Environmental Studies, Ethnic Studies
- Website: Website
Joyce Pualani Warren
- Title: PostDoctoral Scholar Eth. Lit
- E-mail: jwarren@uoregon.edu
- Phone: 541-346-3953
- Office: 273 PLC
- Office Hours: W 10:00-12:00 spring term
Mark Whalan
- Title: Professor
- Additional Title: Horn Endowed Professor
- E-mail: whalan@uoregon.edu
- Phone: 541-346-3926
- Office: 207 PLC
- Office Hours: M 3:00-5:00, F 11:00-12:00 spring term
Elizabeth (Betsy) Wheeler
- Title: Associate Professor
- E-mail: ewheeler@uoregon.edu
- Phone: 541-346-3929
- Office: 238 PLC
- Office Hours: MW 12:45-2:15 pm, & by appt. spring term
- Affiliated Departments: Environmental Studies
- Interests: Disability Studies, Comics, Young Adult and Children's Literature
Jenée Wilde
- Title: Career Instructor
- E-mail: jenee@uoregon.edu
- Phone: 541-346-1051
- Office: 263 PLC
- Office Hours: W 10:00-1:00 spring term
John Witte
- Title: Senior Instructor
- E-mail: jwitte@uoregon.edu
- Phone: 541-346-5935
- Office: 206 PLC
- Office Hours: Checking email intermittently
Daniel Wojcik
- Title: Professor
- Additional Title: Director of Graduate Studies, Folklore
- E-mail: dwojcik@uoregon.edu
- Phone: 541-346-3946
- Office: 463 PLC
- Office Hours: M 1:45-3:30, W 1:45-3:00 spring term
Henry Wonham
- Title: Professor
- E-mail: wonham@uoregon.edu
- Phone: 541-346-3918
- Office: 274 PLC
- Office Hours: MWF 1:00-2:00 spring term
Mary Wood
- Title: Professor
- E-mail: mewood@uoregon.edu
- Phone: 541-346-3010
- Office: 445 PLC
- Office Hours: W 1-3; online ENG 392 students use email any time; spring term hours
- Affiliated Departments: Humanities Program, Judaic Studies Program
Robert Zandstra
- Title: Pro Tem Instructor
- E-mail: zandstra@uoregon.edu
- Phone: 541-346-0055
- Office: 235 PLC
- Office Hours: W 9-11, R 1:30-2:30 spring term
