Faculty
As one of the largest and most diverse communities on campus, the English Department is home to the English major, several innovative minors, and the Composition Program. We are an intellectual and professional community of faculty, staff, graduate students, and graduate employees. Collectively, we are passionate about storytelling, rhetoric, and interpretation. Intellectually, we are dedicated to the study of literature, writing, critical thinking, and ethical research practices We have over 60 full-time faculty members, whose teaching and research ranges across a wide range of history, media, and methodologies.
On this page, you will find contact information for members of our community, faculty research and news, as well as a list of our English major advisers for undergraduate students.
If you don’t find what you are looking for, please feel free to contact us so that we might help you with your query.
Stacy Alaimo

- Title: Professor of English
- Additional Title: Core Faculty, Environmental Studies
- Phone: 541-346-1476
- Email: salaimo@uoregon.edu
- Office: 205 PLC
- Website: Website
Faith Barter

- Title: Assistant Professor
- Phone: 541-346-1510
- Email: fbarter@uoregon.edu
- Office: 320 PLC
- Office Hours: Summer term 6/21-7/17: Weds. 12pm-3pm (Zoom only)
- Interests: African American Literature, Legal History, 19th-Century Studies, Cultural Memory
Martha Bayless

- Title: Professor, English
- Additional Title: Director, Folklore and Public Culture
- Phone: 541-346-3930
- Email: mjbayles@uoregon.edu
- Office: 344 PLC
- Affiliated Departments: Classics
Elizabeth Bohls

- Title: Professor
- Phone: 541-346-5484
- Email: ebohls@uoregon.edu
- Office: 263 PLC
- Office Hours: On leave academic year 2021-22
Tina Boscha

- Title: Senior Instructor
- Phone: 541-346-0056
- Email: tinarb@uoregon.edu
- Office: 236 PLC
- Office Hours: Summer term: MON 9-10 via Canvas Chat, 6/21-8/14
Lara Bovilsky

- Title: Associate Professor
- Phone: 541-346-1309
- Email: bovilsky@uoregon.edu
- Office: 246 PLC
Marcel Brousseau

- Title: Courtesy Assistant Professor
- Phone: 541-346-3967
- Email: mbrousse@uoregon.edu
- Office: 317 PLC
- Affiliated Departments: Comics and Cartoon Studies, IRES
- Website: Website
Kirby Brown

- Title: Associate Professor
- Additional Title: Norman H. Brown Faculty Fellow, 2019-21; Director, Native American Studies
- Phone: 541-346-5819
- Email: kbrown@uoregon.edu
- Office: 330 PLC
- Affiliated Departments: IRES
- Interests: Native American Literary, Intellectual and Cultural Production From The Late 18th Century - The Present, Indigenous Critical Theory, Studies In Sovereignty/Self-Determination, Nationhood/Nationalism, Modernism/Modernity
- Website: Website
Katherine Brundan

- Title: Senior Instructor I
- Phone: 541-346-0934
- Email: kbrundan@uoregon.edu
- Office: 218 Villard Hall
- Affiliated Departments: English Department
- Interests: 19th century European novel, translation studies, philology, history of the novel, the Gothic, gender, technology
Kristy Bryant-Berg

- Title: Senior Instructor
- Phone: 541-346-3975
- Email: kbryantb@uoregon.edu
- Office: 343 PLC
- Office Hours: Summer term 7/18-8/14: 11-12 via Zoom
Mattie Burkert

- Title: Assistant Professor
- Phone: 541-346-0272
- Email: mburkert@uoregon.edu
- Office: 235 PLC
- Affiliated Departments: Digital Humanities
- Interests: Cultural Studies, Digital Humanities, Drama and Performance Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Renaissance/Early Modern Literary Studies, Restoration and 18th Century Literary Studies
- Website: Website
Anna Carroll

- Title: Senior Instructor
- Phone: 541-346-1518
- Email: acarroll@uoregon.edu
- Office: 301H Tykeson Hall
- Office Hours: Summer term 7/18-8/14: WED 12-3 on Zoom
Ulrick Casimir

- Title: Career Instructor
- Phone: 541-346-3977
- Email: ucasimir@uoregon.edu
- Office: 223 PLC
- Affiliated Departments: Clark Honors College
Stephanie Clark

- Title: Associate Professor
- Additional Title: Director/Advisor, Medieval Studies Program
- Phone: 541-346-3960
- Email: sclark11@uoregon.edu
- Office: 374 PLC
Kara Clevinger

- Title: Senior Instructor
- Additional Title: Assistant Department Head
- Phone: 541-346-1514
- Email: kclev@uoregon.edu
- Office: 266 PLC
- Office Hours: Summer term 6/21-7/17: Email for Zoom appt; https://uoregon.zoom.us/my/clev.dropin.hours
- Website: Website
Michael Copperman

- Title: Senior Instructor II
- Phone: 541-346-0063
- Email: mcopperm@uoregon.edu
- Office: 209 PLC
José Cortez

- Title: Assistant Professor
- Phone: 541-346-0069
- Email: jcortez3@uoregon.edu
- Office: 319 PLC
- Affiliated Departments: Latinx
- Interests: critical theory, rhetoric, latinx studies, latin american studies, composition studies
James Crosswhite

- Title: Professor
- Phone: 541-346-3956
- Email: jcross@uoregon.edu
- Office: 258 PLC
- Affiliated Departments: Comparative Literature Department
Brent Dawson

- Title: Assistant Professor
- Phone: 541-346-3962
- Email: bdawson@uoregon.edu
- Office: 473 PLC
- Affiliated Departments: Clark Honors College
Dianne Dugaw

- Title: Professor
- Phone: 541-346-1496
- Email: dugaw@uoregon.edu
- Office: 458 PLC
- Office Hours: Not teaching this term, no office hours; Grad students send email
James Earl

- Title: Professor Emeritus
- Additional Title: English Department
- Email: jwearl@uoregon.edu
- Affiliated Departments: Religious Studies
Rachel Eccleston

- Title: Career Instructor
- Phone: 541-346-1532
- Email: rachele@uoregon.edu
- Office: 301A Tykeson Hall
- Office Hours: Summer 6/21-8/14: WED 12-3pm (PST) via Zoom; sign-up via Canvas Calendar or email to schedule a different time to meet
- Interests: Early Modern Literature; Martyrdom & Resurrection; Divinatory Poetics
Tara Fickle

- Title: Associate Professor, English Department
- Phone: 541-346-3979
- Email: tfickle@uoregon.edu
- Office: 372 PLC
- Office Hours: On leave academic year 2021-22
- Affiliated Departments: Asian Studies, Comics and Cartoon Studies, IRES, Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies
- Interests: Asian/American Literature, Race and Ethnicity, Digital Humanities, Game Studies, Comics
- Website: Website
Karen J. Ford

- Title: Professor
- Phone: 541-346-3902
- Email: fordk@uoregon.edu
- Office: 401 Tykeson Hall
- Office Hours: By appt. through Jules Jones (julesj@uoregon.edu)edu
John Gage

- Title: Professor
- Additional Title: Director, Center for Teaching Writing
- Phone: 541-346-3922
- Email: jgage@uoregon.edu
- Office: 301K Tykeson Hall
- Office Hours: By appointment
Miriam Gershow

- Title: Senior Instructor II
- Phone: 541-346-0051
- Email: mgershow@uoregon.edu
- Office: 237 PLC
- Affiliated Departments: Creative Writing Program
- Website: Website
Warren Ginsberg

- Title: Professor of English
- Additional Title: Philip H. Knight Professor of Humanities Comparative Literature Program Faculty
- Phone: 541-346-3958
- Email: warren@uoregon.edu
- 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.
Helen Huang

- Title: Career Instructor
- Phone: 541-346-1542
- Email: yhuang@uoregon.edu
- Office: 301C Tykeson Hall
- Office Hours: Summer term 6/21-8/14: MON 12-2 pm
Michael Jarvis

- Title: Instructor of English
- Phone: 541-346-1528
- Email: mjarvis@uoregon.edu
- Office: 301D Tykeson Hall
Mat Johnson

- Title: Professor
- Phone: 541-346-0547
- Email: mrjohns6@uoregon.edu
- Office: 207 Alder Bldg.
- Office Hours: Not teaching an ENG course this term
- Affiliated Departments: Comics and Cartoon Studies
Heidi Kaufman

- Title: Associate Professor
- Additional Title: Associate Department Head, Director, DH Minor
- Phone: 541-346-3932
- Email: hkaufman@uoregon.edu
- Office: 327 PLC
- Affiliated Departments: Judaic Studies Program
Kate Kelp-Stebbins

- Title: Assistant Professor
- Phone: 541-346-3988
- Email: kkelp@uoregon.edu
- Office: 333 PLC
- Office Hours: Summer term 7/18-8/14: M 2-5 via Zoom
- Affiliated Departments: Comics and Cartoon Studies
- Website: Website
Anna Kovalchuk

- Title: Career Instructor
- Phone: 541-346-1532
- Email: annak@uoregon.edu
- Office: 301A Tykeson Hall
- Office Hours: Summer term 6/21-8/14: WED 12-3 on Zoom
- Interests: national narratives, comparative and world literature, Cossack history, Ukrainian and Russian literature
C. Anne Laskaya

- Title: Associate Professor
- Phone: 541-346-1517
- Email: laskaya@uoregon.edu
- Office: 357 PLC
- Affiliated Departments: Judaic Studies Program
- Interests: Medieval Studies, Rhetoric, Women's Literature, Gender/Queer Studies, Manuscript and Book History.
Stephanie LeMenager

- Title: Barbara and Carlisle Moore Professor of English
- Phone: 541-346-3966
- Email: slemen@uoregon.edu
- Office: 457 PLC
- Affiliated Departments: Environmental Studies
- Interests: American Studies, Environmental Humanities
- Website: Website
David Li

- Title: Professor
- Additional Title: Collins Professor of the Humanities Emeritus
- Email: davidlli@uoregon.edu
- Affiliated Departments: Asian Studies
Allison McGuffie

- Title: Career Instructor
- Phone: 541-346-3965
- Email: mcguffie@uoregon.edu
- Office: 329 PLC
- Office Hours: Summer term 7/18-8/14 & 8/15-9/11: Online FRI 12-1 PM
- Affiliated Departments: African Studies, Cinema Studies Program, Clark Honors College, Digital Humanities, English Department
Quinn Miller

- Title: Associate Professor
- Phone: 541-346-3978
- Email: qmmiller@uoregon.edu
- Office: 447 PLC
- Affiliated Departments: Digital Humanities
Kate Myers

- Title: Senior Instructor
- Additional Title: Director of Writing Associates
- Phone: 541-346-1533
- Email: kmyers@uoregon.edu
- Office: 301J Tykeson Hall
- Office Hours: Summer term 6/21-7/31: WED 11:30-2:30 via Zoom & by appt.
- Interests: Early Modern Literature
tia north

- Title: Career Instructor
- Additional Title: Associate Director of Composition; Culturally Responsive Teaching Fellow
- Phone: 541-346-1519
- Email: tnorth3@uoregon.edu
- Office: 301H Tykeson Hall
- Affiliated Departments: Creative Writing Program, English Department
Brendan O'Kelly

- Title: Senior Instructor
- Phone: 541-346-5935
- Email: bokelly@uoregon.edu
- Office: 206 PLC
- Affiliated Departments: Clark Honors College, Comics and Cartoon Studies, Digital Humanities
- Interests: 20th/21st Century American, British, and Irish Fiction; Critical and Visual Theory; Film Studies; Comics Studies; Digital Humanities
Paul Peppis

- Title: Professor
- Additional Title: Director, Oregon Humanities Center
- Phone: 541-346-7017
- Email: ppeppis@uoregon.edu
- Office: 154 PLC
- Affiliated Departments: Comics and Cartoon Studies
Forest Pyle

- Title: Professor
- Phone: 541-346-3928
- Email: trespyle@uoregon.edu
- Office: 270 PLC
- Office Hours: On leave spring term; available by email & for scheduling Zoom appts.
- Affiliated Departments: Comics and Cartoon Studies
Mark Quigley

- Title: Associate Professor
- Phone: 541-346-1340
- Email: mquigley@uoregon.edu
- Office: 324 PLC
Nick Recktenwald

- Title: Senior Instructor
- Additional Title: Director of Composition
- Phone: 541-346-3921
- Email: nreckten@uoregon.edu
- Office: 363 PLC
William Rossi

- Title: Professor Emeritus
- Phone: 541-346-3955
- Email: rossiw@uoregon.edu
- Office: 363 PLC
Stephen Rust

- Title: Senior Instructor
- Phone: 541-346-0058
- Email: srust@uoregon.edu
- Office: 239 PLC
- Office Hours: Summer term 7/18-8/14: TUES/THUR 2-3PM;; email for appts.
- Affiliated Departments: Digital Humanities
Ben Saunders

- Title: Professor
- Additional Title: Director, Comics and Cartoon Studies Minor
- Phone: 541-346-0062
- Email: ben@uoregon.edu
- Office: 273 PLC
- Affiliated Departments: Comics and Cartoon Studies
Gordon Sayre

- Title: Professor
- Additional Title: Interim Summer 2020 Head of English, Director of Undergraduate Studies
- Phone: 541-346-1313
- Email: gsayre@uoregon.edu
- Office: 472 PLC
Steven Shankman

- Title: Professor Emeritus
- Additional Title: UNESCO Chair in Transcultural Studies, Interreligious Dialogue, and Peace
- Phone: 541-346-3997
- Email: shankman@uoregon.edu
- Office: 373 PLC
- Office Hours: Not teaching ENG this term; available via email
- Affiliated Departments: Classics, Clark Honors College
- 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: Senior Instructor, Multilingual Writing Specialist
- Additional Title: Director, WSCR Minor
- Phone: 541-346-3517
- Email: esimnitt@uoregon.edu
- Office: 301E Tykeson Hall
- Affiliated Departments: Disability Studies
- Interests: digital rhetoric, multilingual writing spaces, first year writing
Courtney Thorsson

- Title: Associate Professor
- Phone: 541-346-1473
- Email: thorsson@uoregon.edu
- Office: 244 PLC
Corbett Upton

- Title: Senior Instructor
- Additional Title: Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies
- Phone: 541-346-3961
- Email: cupton@uoregon.edu
- Office: 375 PLC
- Office Hours: Summer term 7/18-8/14: THUR 1:00-3:00pm on Zoom. Zoom ID 910 1036 0419, & by appt (email cupton@uoregon.edu to schedule appts).
Eleanor Wakefield

- Title: Career Instructor
- Phone: 541-346-0055
- Email: ewakefie@uoregon.edu
- Office: 301B Tykeson Hall
Sarah D Wald

- Title: Associate Professor, Environmental Studies & English
- Additional Title: Associate Director of Environmental Studies; Director of Graduate Admissions for English
- Phone: 541-346-1613
- Email: sdwald@uoregon.edu
- Office: 443 PLC
- Affiliated Departments: Environmental Studies, IRES
- Interests: The Relationship Between Race and The Environment, Immigration and Citizenship, Food Studies, Environmental Justice, and Nature In Popular Culture, Comparative Approach to Asian American and Latinx Literature and Culture
- Website: Website
Mark Whalan

- Title: Professor
- Additional Title: Head of English, Horn Endowed Professor
- Phone: 541-346-3926
- Email: whalan@uoregon.edu
- Office: 207 PLC
- Office Hours: By appointment
Elizabeth (Betsy) Wheeler

- Title: Associate Professor
- Additional Title: Director, Disability Studies Minor
- Phone: 541-346-3929
- Email: ewheeler@uoregon.edu
- Office: 238 PLC
- Affiliated Departments: Comics and Cartoon Studies, Environmental Studies
- Interests: Disability Studies, Comics, Young Adult and Children's Literature
Jenée Wilde

- Title: Senior Instructor of English
- Additional Title: CSWS Dissemination Specialist
- Phone: 541-346-1051
- Email: jenee@uoregon.edu
- Office: 331 PLC
- Affiliated Departments: Comics and Cartoon Studies, Digital Humanities
- Interests: gender and sexuality studies, queer studies, science fiction, folklore, popular culture, creative nonfiction writing
Daniel Wojcik

- Title: Professor
- Phone: 541-346-3946
- Email: dwojcik@uoregon.edu
- Office: 463 PLC
- Office Hours: Summer: TUES 12-3 pm via Zoom
- Affiliated Departments: Folklore Program
Henry Wonham

- Title: Professor
- Phone: 541-346-3266
- Email: wonham@uoregon.edu
- Office: 436 Tykeson Hall
- Office Hours: No office hours; available by email
Mary Wood

- Title: Professor
- Additional Title: Director of Graduate Studies
- Phone: 541-346-3010
- Email: mewood@uoregon.edu
- Office: 445 PLC
- Affiliated Departments: Disability Studies, Global Health Program
- Interests: Medical and Health Humanities, American literature, Disability Studies, Science and Literature, Queer Studies
Ana Zalyubovskiy

- Title: Career Instructor
- Phone: 541-346-1528
- Email: anaz@uoregon.edu
- Office: 219 PLC