Faculty

Stacy Alaimo

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  • Title: Professor
  • Additional Title: Core Faculty, Environmental Studies
  • Phone: 541-346-1476
  • Office: 205 PLC
  • Office Hours: S20 - TUES 3:30-4:30, THUR 3:30-5:00 virtual; email for Zoom appt.
  • Affiliated Departments: Environmental Studies
  • Website: Website

Faith Barter

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  • Title: Assistant Professor
  • Phone: 541-346-1510
  • Office: 320 PLC
  • Office Hours: S20: Not teaching this term, available by email
  • Interests: African American Literature, Legal History, 19th-Century Studies, Cultural Memory

Martha Bayless

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  • Title: Professor, English
  • Additional Title: Director, Folklore and Public Culture
  • Phone: 541-346-3930
  • Office: 344 PLC
  • Office Hours: Winter term: Friday 10:00-1:00

Carolyn Bergquist

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  • Title: Senior Lecturer
  • Phone: 541-346-2695
  • Office: 243 PLC
  • Office Hours: S20 - TR 1200-1330 via email, or schedule a phone appt.

Elizabeth Bohls

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  • Title: Professor
  • Additional Title: Associate Department Head
  • Phone: 541-346-5484
  • Office: 263 PLC
  • Office Hours: Winter term: WED 12-3 and by appointment

Tina Boscha

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  • Title: Senior Instructor
  • Phone: 541-346-0056
  • Office: 236 PLC
  • Office Hours: Winter term: MW 3:30-5:00

Lara Bovilsky

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  • Title: Associate Professor
  • Phone: 541-346-1309
  • Office: 246 PLC
  • Office Hours: Winter term: Monday 1-3, Thursday 9-10, or by appointment

Marcel Brousseau

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  • Title: Visiting Assistant Professor
  • Phone: 541-346-3967
  • Office: 317 PLC
  • Office Hours: Winter term: TUES/THUR 11:30AM-1 PM
  • Affiliated Departments: Ethnic Studies
  • Website: Website

Kirby Brown

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  • Title: Associate Professor
  • Additional Title: Norman H. Brown Faculty Fellow, 2019-21
  • Phone: 541-346-5819
  • Office: 330 PLC
  • Office Hours: S20 - T 10-12; W 4-5:30 Canvas Chat/conf & by email appt.
  • Affiliated Departments: Ethnic Studies
  • Website: Website

Katherine Brundan

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  • Title: Senior Instructor I
  • Phone: 541-346-0934
  • Office: 218 Villard Hall
  • Office Hours: Winter term: Monday 2-4pm, Friday 9-10pm
  • Interests: 19th century European novel, trauma studies, gender, and sensationalism

Kristy Bryant-Berg

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  • Title: Career Instructor
  • Phone: 541-346-3975
  • Office: 343 PLC
  • Office Hours: Winter term: TUES/THUR 9:00-10:00 & 11:30-12:00

Anna Carroll

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  • Title: Career Instructor
  • Phone: 541-346-1518
  • Office: 301H Tykeson Hall
  • Office Hours: Winter term: TUES/THUR 3:30-5:00 p.m.

Ulrick Casimir

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  • Title: Career Instructor
  • Phone: 541-346-3977
  • Office: 223 PLC
  • Office Hours: Winter term: TUES/THUR 11:25-11:55; 1:25-1:55

Stephanie Clark

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  • Title: Associate Professor
  • Phone: 541-346-3960
  • Office: 374 PLC
  • Office Hours: Winter term: TUES 2:00-5:00

Kara Clevinger

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  • Title: Senior Instructor
  • Additional Title: Assistant Department Head
  • Phone: 541-346-1514
  • Office: 266 PLC
  • Office Hours: S20 - TW 1:30-3:00pm on Canvas Chat; Zoom by appt.
  • Website: Website

Michael Copperman

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  • Title: Senior Instructor II
  • Phone: 541-346-0063
  • Office: 209 PLC
  • Office Hours: S20: MWF 11-12 via email, or email to schedule mtg. via Zoom or Canvas

José Cortez

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  • Title: Assistant Professor
  • Phone: 541-346-0069
  • Office: 319 PLC
  • Office Hours: S20: not teaching this term; checking email daily
  • Interests: critical theory, rhetoric, latinx studies, latin american studies

James Crosswhite

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  • Title: Professor
  • Phone: 541-346-3956
  • Office: 258 PLC
  • Affiliated Departments: Comparative Literature Department

Brent Dawson

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  • Title: Assistant Professor
  • Phone: 541-346-3962
  • Office: 473 PLC
  • Office Hours: Winter term: F 9-12

Dianne Dugaw

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  • Title: Professor
  • Phone: 541-346-1496
  • Office: 458 PLC
  • Office Hours: Not teaching winter term; no office hours

James Earl

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  • Title: Professor Emeritus
  • Additional Title: English Department
  • Affiliated Departments: Religious Studies

Rachel Eccleston

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  • Title: Career Instructor
  • Phone: 541-346-1532
  • Office: 301A Tykeson Hall
  • Office Hours: Winter term: TUES/THUR 1:30-3:00 & by appt.
  • Interests: Early Modern Literature; Martyrdom & Resurrection; Divinatory Poetics

Tara Fickle

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  • Title: Assistant Professor, English Department
  • Phone: 541-346-3979
  • Office: 372 PLC
  • Office Hours: S20: Not teaching this term; checking email intermittently
  • Affiliated Departments: Asian Studies, Ethnic Studies
  • Interests: Asian/Asian American Literature, Digital Humanities, Game Studies, Graphic Fiction & Comics
  • Website: Website

Karen J. Ford

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  • Title: Professor
  • Phone: 541-346-3902
  • Office: 401 Tykeson Hall
  • Office Hours: By appt. through Lisa Mick Shimizu at 541-346-3902

John Gage

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  • Title: Professor
  • Additional Title: Director, Center for Teaching Writing
  • Phone: 541-346-3922
  • Office: 301K Tykeson Hall
  • Office Hours: By appointment

Brian Gazaille

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  • Title: Career Instructor
  • Phone: 541-346-5935
  • Office: 206 PLC
  • Office Hours: On leave academic year 2019-2020
  • Interests: Nineteenth-Century American Literature, African American Literature, Literature and Science, Medical Humanities

Miriam Gershow

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  • Title: Senior Instructor II
  • Phone: 541-346-0051
  • Office: 237 PLC
  • Office Hours: S20 - MW 10-11:30 via email, Canvas Chat, or Zoom meeting

Spike Gildea

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  • Title: Professor
  • Additional Title: Interim Director of Composition
  • Phone: 541-346-0480
  • Office: 381 Straub Hall

Warren Ginsberg

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  • Title: Professor of English
  • Additional Title: Philip H. Knight Professor of Humanities Comparative Literature Program Faculty
  • Phone: 541-346-3958
  • Office: 257 PLC
  • Office Hours: I am retired. You can contact me by email.
  • Interests: I am especially interested in examining the aesthetic, social, and political aspects of cross-cultural translation in Chaucer's works.

Thelma Greenfield

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Helen Huang

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  • Title: Career Instructor
  • Phone: 541-346-1542
  • Office: 301C Tykeson Hall
  • Office Hours: Winter term: TUES/THUR 10-11:30

Michael Jarvis

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  • Title: Instructor of English
  • Phone: 541-346-1528
  • Office: 301D Tykeson Hall
  • Office Hours: Winter term: MWF 2:50-3:50

Mat Johnson

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  • Title: Professor
  • Phone: 541-346-0547
  • Office: 207 Alder Bldg.
  • Office Hours: Winter Term: Not teaching this term. Available by email and appointment

Heidi Kaufman

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  • Title: Associate Professor
  • Additional Title: Director, DH Minor
  • Phone: 541-346-3932
  • Office: 327 PLC
  • Office Hours: Winter term: TUES 2-4
  • Affiliated Departments: Judaic Studies Program

Kate Kelp-Stebbins

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  • Title: Assistant Professor
  • Phone: 541-346-3988
  • Office: 333 PLC
  • Office Hours: S20 - TUES 11-2 via Canvas Chat; or Zoom
  • Website: Website

Anna Kovalchuk

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  • Title: Career Instructor
  • Phone: 541-346-1532
  • Office: 301A Tykeson Hall
  • Office Hours: S20 - THUR 12-3 via BigBlueButton on Canvas
  • Interests: national narratives, comparative and world literature, Cossack history, Ukrainian and Russian literature

C. Anne Laskaya

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  • Title: Associate Professor
  • Phone: 541-346-1517
  • Office: 357 PLC
  • Office Hours: Spring term: Week 1 by email only. Starting April 6th: TUES 10:00am-12:00pm, THURS 4:00pm-5:00pm on Zoom
  • Affiliated Departments: Judaic Studies Program
  • Interests: Medieval Studies, Rhetoric & Composition, Women's Literature, Manuscript and Book History

Stephanie LeMenager

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  • Title: Professor
  • Additional Title: Moore Endowed Professor
  • Phone: 541-346-3966
  • Office: 457 PLC
  • Office Hours: Not teaching 2019-20 school year. Responding to email periodically.
  • Affiliated Departments: Environmental Studies
  • Interests: American Studies, Environmental Humanities
  • Website: Website

David Li

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  • Title: Professor
  • Additional Title: Collins Professor of the Humanities
  • Phone: 541-346-3940
  • Office: 275 PLC
  • Office Hours: On leave academic year 2019-2020; no office hours
  • Affiliated Departments: Asian Studies

Allison McGuffie

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  • Title: Faculty Fellow
  • Phone: 541-346-3965
  • Office: 329 PLC
  • Office Hours: Winter term: MW 2:30-4:00
  • Affiliated Departments: African Studies, Cinema Studies Program, English Department

Quinn Miller

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  • Title: Associate Professor
  • Phone: 541-346-3978
  • Office: 447 PLC
  • Office Hours: Winter term: Monday: 8:30-11:30am

Kate Myers

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  • Title: Senior Instructor
  • Additional Title: Director of Writing Associates
  • Phone: 541-346-1533
  • Office: 301J Tykeson Hall
  • Office Hours: Winter term: T/TR 1:30-2:30 pm, W 11:00 am - 12:00 pm, and by appointment
  • Interests: Early Modern Literature

Tia North

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  • Title: Career Instructor
  • Phone: 541-346-1518
  • Office: TYKE 301H
  • Office Hours: S20 - M 9-10; W 10-12 via Canvas Chat
  • Affiliated Departments: Creative Writing Program, English Department

Brendan O'Kelly

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  • Title: Career Instructor
  • Phone: 541-346-5935
  • Office: 206 PLC
  • Office Hours: Winter term: MW 12:20-1:50
  • Interests: 20th/21st Century American, British, and Irish Fiction; Critical and Visual Theory; Film Studies; Comics Studies; Digital Humanities

Paul Peppis

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  • Title: Professor
  • Additional Title: Director, Oregon Humanities Center
  • Phone: 541-346-7017
  • Office: 154 PLC
  • Office Hours: Winter term: THUR 2:00-5:00 pm

Forest Pyle

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  • Title: Professor
  • Phone: 541-346-3928
  • Office: 270 PLC
  • Office Hours: Winter term: MF 3:00-4:30

Mark Quigley

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  • Title: Associate Professor
  • Phone: 541-346-1340
  • Office: 324 PLC
  • Office Hours: Winter term: M 2:30-5:30

Nick Recktenwald

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  • Title: Career Instructor
  • Additional Title: Associate Director of Composition
  • Phone: 541-346-3921
  • Office: 211 PLC
  • Office Hours: Winter term: By appt. only

Rachel Rochester

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  • Title: Pro Tem Instructor
  • Phone: 541-346-1542
  • Office: 301C Tykeson Hall
  • Office Hours: Winter term: W 3:30-5 p.m., F 9-10:30 a.m.

William Rossi

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  • Title: Professor
  • Phone: 541-346-3955
  • Office: 363 PLC
  • Office Hours: Winter Term: TUES/THUR 11:45-1:15pm

Stephen Rust

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  • Title: Career Instructor
  • Phone: 541-346-0058
  • Office: 239 PLC
  • Office Hours: Winter term: MW 10-11:30 am

Ben Saunders

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  • Title: Professor
  • Additional Title: Director, Comics and Cartoon Studies Minor
  • Phone: 541-346-0062
  • Office: 273 PLC
  • Office Hours: Winter term: THUR 2pm-5pm

Rebecca Saxon

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  • Title: Pro-Tem Instructor of English/Philosophy Department Funding & Program Development
  • Phone: 541-346-1528
  • Office: 239 PLC
  • Office Hours: Not teaching an ENG course this term
  • Affiliated Departments: Philosophy Department
  • Website: Website

Gordon Sayre

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  • Title: Professor
  • Additional Title: Director of Undergraduate Studies
  • Phone: 541-346-1313
  • Office: 472 PLC
  • Office Hours: Winter term: W 1-3 pm, F 9-10 am

Steven Shankman

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  • Title: Professor of English
  • Additional Title: UNESCO Chair in Transcultural Studies, Interreligious Dialogue, and Peace
  • Phone: 541-346-3997
  • Office: 373 PLC
  • Office Hours: S20: Not teaching this term; available via email
  • Interests: Comparative literature, the classical tradition in English and American literature, the eighteenth century, and the history of literary theory
  • Website: Website

Emily Simnitt

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  • Title: Career Instructor, Multilingual Writing Specialist
  • Additional Title: Associate Director of Composition
  • Phone: 541-346-3517
  • Office: 301E Tykeson Hall
  • Office Hours: Winter term: MON 2-3, THUR 1-3
  • Interests: digital rhetoric, multilingual writing spaces, first year writing

Bjorn Smars

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  • Title: Career Instructor
  • Phone: 541-346-3977
  • Office: 223 PLC
  • Office Hours: Winter term: MWF 11am to 12pm

Helen Southworth

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  • Title: Professor
  • Phone: 541-346-2642
  • Office: 323 Chapman Hall

Courtney Thorsson

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  • Title: Associate Professor
  • Phone: 541-346-1473
  • Office: 244 PLC
  • Office Hours: S20 - TUES 11am-1pm; email to schedule phone or Skype

Avinnash Tiwari

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  • Title: Career Instructor
  • Phone: 541-346-0061
  • Office: 444 PLC
  • Office Hours: Winter term: F 1300-1600 & by appt.

Corbett Upton

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  • Title: Career Instructor
  • Additional Title: Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies
  • Phone: 541-346-3961
  • Office: 375 PLC
  • Office Hours: Winter term: TUES/THUR 2:00-4:00pm & by appt.

David J Vázquez

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  • Title: Associate Professor, Department of English
  • Additional Title: Department Head
  • Phone: 541-346-1516
  • Office: 118 PLC
  • Office Hours: By appt. through Susan Meyers 6-1516

Eleanor Wakefield

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  • Title: Career Instructor
  • Phone: 541-346-0055
  • Office: 301B Tykeson Hall
  • Office Hours: On leave winter term; checking email sporadically

Sarah D Wald

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  • Title: Associate Professor, Environmental Studies & English
  • Additional Title: Associate Director of Environmental Studies; Director of Graduate Admissions for English
  • Phone: 541-346-1613
  • Office: 443 PLC
  • Office Hours: Winter term: By appt., sign up here: https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://goo.gl/ZUocxh__;!!C5qS4YX3!Ra9dRLIJSZCoDkKxKLPngF8Gk_-Bv5413trVLgU68_ixitP_jO-RHxvkSVH-zTusucY$
  • Affiliated Departments: Environmental Studies, Ethnic Studies
  • Website: Website

Damien Weaver

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  • Title: Pro Tem Instructor
  • Phone: 541-346-0061
  • Office: 444 PLC
  • Office Hours: Winter term: MW 5:30-6:30 pm, F 11:45 am - 12:45 pm

Susan Weeber

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  • Title: Postdoctoral Scholar
  • Phone: 541-346-3953
  • Office: 265 PLC
  • Office Hours: Winter term: WED 10am-12pm; THUR 2:30-3:30pm & by appt.

Mark Whalan

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  • Title: Professor
  • Additional Title: Horn Endowed Professor
  • Phone: 541-346-3926
  • Office: 207 PLC
  • Office Hours: S20: Email to schedule remote mtg.

Elizabeth (Betsy) Wheeler

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  • Title: Associate Professor
  • Additional Title: Director, Disability Studies Minor
  • Phone: 541-346-3929
  • Office: 238 PLC
  • Office Hours: S20 MW 12-1:30
  • Affiliated Departments: Environmental Studies
  • Interests: Disability Studies, Comics, Young Adult and Children's Literature

Jenée Wilde

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  • Title: Career Instructor
  • Phone: 541-346-1051
  • Office: 347 Hendricks Hall
  • Office Hours: Winter Term: M 11-1 and R 10-11, or by appointment

Daniel Wojcik

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  • Title: Professor
  • Phone: 541-346-3946
  • Office: 463 PLC
  • Office Hours: S20: TUES/THUR 12-1:30pm - contact by email during these hours
  • Affiliated Departments: Religious Studies

Henry Wonham

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  • Title: Professor
  • Phone: 541-346-3266
  • Office: 436 Tykeson Hall
  • Office Hours: No drop-in office hours winter term

Mary Wood

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  • Title: Professor
  • Additional Title: Director of Graduate Studies
  • Phone: 541-346-3010
  • Office: 445 PLC
  • Office Hours: Winter term: MON 1-3, THUR 12-2
  • Affiliated Departments: Global Health Program
  • Interests: Medical and Health Humanities, American literature, Disability Studies, Science and Literature, Queer Studies

Ana Zalyubovskiy

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  • Title: Career Instructor
  • Phone: 541-346-1528
  • Office: 219 PLC
  • Office Hours: S20 - MWF 11-12 & by appt. via email & Canvas Chat

Robert Zandstra

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  • Title: Career Instructor
  • Phone: 541-346-0055
  • Office: 301B Tykeson Hall
  • Office Hours: Winter term: W 11am-12pm; F 1-3pm

Rhonda Zimlich

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  • Title: Pro Tem Instructor
  • Phone: 541-346-3965
  • Office: 329 PLC
  • Office Hours: S20: MW 10-11:30am (remote); email to schedule Zoom mtg.