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Susan Anderson

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  • Affiliation: faculty
  • Title: Professor of German
  • Phone: 541-346-4056
  • Office: 321 Friendly Hall
  • Affiliated Departments: Environmental Studies, European Studies, Translation Studies, Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies
  • Programs, Research and Outreach: Advising and Student Experience
  • Teaching Level: Doctoral
  • Interests: German and Austrian literature and culture from the late 19th century to the present

Sonja Boos

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  • Affiliation: faculty
  • Title: Associate Professor
  • Additional Title: Director of Undergraduate Studies (German)
  • Phone: 541-346-4083
  • Office: 211 Friendly Hall
  • Office Hours: By appointment
  • Interests: Poetics of knowledge, film theory, feminism, psychoanalysis, narrative theory, 19th-20th century literature and critical thought

Cory Browning

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  • Title: Assistant Professor of French
  • Phone: 541-346-4028
  • Office: 428 Friendly Hall
  • Office Hours: Tuesday, 1-2 Wednesday, 4-5 and by appointment
  • Affiliated Departments: Comparative Literature, European Studies
  • Interests: 19th, 20th, 21st century French and Francophone Studies, Critical Theory, Aesthetics and Violence

Alexander Dracobly

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  • Affiliation: faculty
  • Title: Senior Instructor II
  • Phone: 541-346-5910
  • Office: 329 McKenzie Hall
  • Office Hours: Spring 23: Wednesdays 10-11:30am & Thursdays 1:45-3:15pm
  • Affiliated Departments: European Studies, Middle East and North African Studies

Evlyn Gould

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  • Affiliation: faculty
  • Title: Professor Emerita
  • Additional Title: College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor in Humanities
  • Phone: 541-346-4020
  • Affiliated Departments: European Studies, Judaic Studies Program
  • Interests: nineteenth century French studies,Jewish studies,European studies,interdisciplinary studies in literature, music, dance

Gantt Gurley

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  • Affiliation: faculty
  • Title: Associate Professor
  • Additional Title: Program Director, Harold Schnitzer Family Program in Judaic Studies, Advisor
  • Phone: 541-346-4055
  • Office: 319 Friendly Hall
  • Office Hours: F 10–2 or by appointment
  • Affiliated Departments: Comics and Cartoon Studies, Comparative Literature, European Studies, Folklore Program, Judaic Studies Program, Medieval Studies
  • Teaching Level: Doctoral, Masters, Undergraduate
  • Interests: Ancient and medieval song culture, the birth of the novel, the Wandering Jew, Long Romanticism, Old Norse literature, the lyrical mode, Hans Christian Andersen, and notions of religiosity in the Danish Golden Age.

Gina Herrmann

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  • Title: Norman H. Brown Faculty Fellow, Professor of Spanish, National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow 2017-18
  • Phone: 541-654-2705
  • Office: 220 Friendly Hall
  • City: Eugene, Oregon
  • Office Hours: WED 10-12 virtual, please text in advance
  • Affiliated Departments: Cinema Studies Program, European Studies, Judaic Studies Program
  • Interests: Communist and Leftist Studies, Holocaust Studies, Spanish Memory Studies

Nathalie Hester

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  • Affiliation: faculty
  • Title: Associate Professor of Italian and French, National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow 2019-20
  • Phone: 541-346-4058
  • Office: 222 Friendly Hall
  • Office Hours: Winter 2024: Wednesdays 12pm-2pm
  • Affiliated Departments: European Studies
  • Teaching Level: Doctoral, Masters, Undergraduate

Katya Hokanson

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  • Affiliation: faculty
  • Title: Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature
  • Additional Title: Director of Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, Head, Department of Comparative Literature
  • Phone: 541-346-3947
  • Office: 357 PLC
  • Interests: 19th-century Russian literature, women's writing, and Russian colonialism.

Martin Klebes

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  • Affiliation: faculty
  • Title: Associate Professor
  • Phone: 541-346-2818
  • Office: 205 Friendly Hall
  • Office Hours: On leave
  • Affiliated Departments: Clark Honors College, European Studies
  • Interests: 18th- through 21st-century German and French literature, philosophy and critical thought.

Patricia Lambert

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  • Affiliation: faculty
  • Title: Professor
  • Phone: 541-346-2050
  • Office: 108 Hendricks Hall
  • City: Eugene
  • Office Hours: Vary by term, and by appointment
  • Affiliated Departments: College of Design, European Studies, German & Scandinavian, Global Health Program, Institute for Policy Research and Engagement, Music, OCIAS
  • Teaching Level: Doctoral, Masters, Undergraduate
  • Interests: nonprofit management, international public policy, historical public policy analysis, cultural policy, arts & cultural leadership, arts in health

Peter Laufer

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  • Affiliation: faculty
  • Title: Professor, James N. Wallace Chair of Journalism
  • Phone: 541-346-2109
  • Office: 203 Allen Hall
  • City: Eugene
  • Affiliated Departments: European Studies
  • Teaching Level: Masters, Undergraduate

Jeffrey S. Librett

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  • Affiliation: faculty
  • Title: Professor of German & Scandinavian
  • Additional Title: Department Head, Director of Graduate Studies
  • Phone: 541-346-0649
  • Office: 327 Friendly Hall
  • Office Hours: Winter 2023: Tuesday 3:30-5:00pm and by appointment (through email)
  • Affiliated Departments: Philosophy
  • Teaching Level: Doctoral
  • Interests: German, French, and English letters; Enlightenment, Counter-enlightenment, Romanticism, and Modernism; literature, philosophy, critical theory, inter-arts discourse, Judaic Studies, psychoanalysis, film

Massimo Lollini

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  • Title: Professor Emeritus of Italian
  • Phone: 541-346-0957
  • Office: 325 Friendly Hall
  • Teaching Level: Doctoral
  • Interests: Humanisms, More-than-Human-Humanism and Ecocriticism, Digital Culture and New Media, Digital Philology, Mediterranean Studies, Italian and European literature and theory.
  • Research Website: Research
  • Twitter: Twitter
  • Website: Website

David Luebke

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  • Affiliation: faculty
  • Title: Professor
  • Additional Title: Katherine G. Brady & Thomas A. Brady, Jr., Roger Chickering & Alison Baker Professor of Central European Histories
  • Phone: 541-346-2394
  • Office: 357 McKenzie Hall
  • Affiliated Departments: European Studies, German & Scandinavian
  • Teaching Level: Doctoral, Masters, Undergraduate
  • Website: Website

Scott Maier

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  • Affiliation: emeritus
  • Title: Professor Emerit
  • Phone: 541-346-5849
  • Office: 311D Allen Hall
  • Teaching Level: Masters, Undergraduate

Alexander Mathas

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  • Affiliation: faculty
  • Title: Professor Emeritus
  • Phone: 541-346-4101
  • Office: 321 Friendly Hall
  • Office Hours: By appointment
  • Affiliated Departments: European Studies
  • Interests: Self, subjectivity, and artistic creativity in 18th through 20th century German literature and thought, as well as identity, gender, and memory in the works of 18th and 20th century authors; Humanism and Posthumanism

John McCole

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  • Affiliation: faculty
  • Title: Associate Professor
  • Phone: 541-346-5906
  • Office: 303 McKenzie Hall
  • Office Hours: Spring 2023 W 2-4 in McKenzie 303, or email me for a Zoom link
  • Affiliated Departments: European Studies
  • Website: Website

Ian F. McNeely

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  • Affiliation: faculty
  • Title: Professor of History
  • Additional Title: Faculty in Residence, Clark Honors College
  • Phone: 541-346-4791
  • Office: 128 Chapman
  • Office Hours: Sign up at https://bit.ly/3fNfWDY. TR 9:00-10:00, 11:20-12:00 (in CHA 128) and F 10:00-12:00 (on Zoom only).
  • Affiliated Departments: European Studies
  • Interests: Germany, Europe, world history, history of knowledge

Leah Middlebrook

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  • Affiliation: faculty
  • Title: Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Spanish
  • Phone: 541-346-3103
  • Office: 305 Villard Hall
  • Office Hours: F 2023 - W 11-1, on sabbatical leave W/S
  • Affiliated Departments: Clark Honors College
  • Teaching Level: Doctoral, Masters, Undergraduate
  • Interests: poetry and poetics; comparative modernities; critical race studies; early modern literature and culture of Spain, the Spanish Americas, France and Great Britain

Fabienne Moore

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  • Affiliation: faculty
  • Title: Associate Professor of French
  • Additional Title: Head, French sector
  • Phone: 541-346-4032
  • Office: 324 Friendly Hall
  • City: Eugene, OR
  • Office Hours: Spring 2024: Tuesdays 2-4 am
  • Affiliated Departments: Comparative Literature
  • Teaching Level: Doctoral, Masters, Undergraduate
  • Interests: Early European romanticism; Chateaubriand; Staël; European Enlightenment; the French & Haitian Revolutions; French and Francophocultural and literary history; prose poetry; the evolution of the novel; bande dessinées & graphic narratives; blue humanities

Alexander Murphy

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  • Affiliation: emeritus
  • Title: Professor Emeritus (part-time Professor, 2019-2024)
  • Additional Title: Rippey Chair in Liberal Arts & Sciences, 1998-2019
  • Phone: 541-346-4571
  • Office: 151 Condon Hall
  • Office Hours: In person Mon 4-5PM Condon Hall 151, Zoom Tue 4-5PM
  • Affiliated Departments: European Studies
  • Interests: Cultural and political geography, Europe, law and geography.

Dorothee Ostmeier

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  • Affiliation: faculty
  • Title: Professor of German, and Folklore and Public Culture
  • Additional Title: Head, Department of Theater Arts
  • Phone: 541-346-4145
  • Office: 215 Friendly Hall
  • City: Eugene
  • Office Hours: Tue/Thu 1:20 to 2 PM GSH 103 Afterwards Villard until 3:30 PM and by appointment
  • Affiliated Departments: Comparative Literature, School of Global Studies and Languages, Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies
  • Interests: German literature and culture of the 18th through 20th century

Craig Parsons

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  • Affiliation: faculty
  • Title: Professor; Program Head
  • Phone: 541-346-4402
  • Office: 930 PLC
  • Office Hours: Sp 24: Tuesday 12:00 - 3:00
  • Affiliated Departments: German & Scandinavian
  • Interests: Comparative Politics, European Politics

Jenifer Presto

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  • Affiliation: faculty
  • Title: Associate Professor of Comparative Literature
  • Additional Title: Interim Director of COLT Graduate Studies
  • Phone: 541-485-7400
  • Office: 346 PLC
  • Office Hours: Spring 2024: Tuesdays 10:00 a.m.-noon & by appt.
  • Affiliated Departments: European Studies
  • Interests: Russian modernism; gender studies; environmental criticism; visual culture; digital humanities; Russian-Italian cultural interactions; and Russian-American culture

Gina Psaki

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  • Affiliation: emeritus
  • Title: Professor Emerita of Italian
  • Additional Title: Professor, Romance Languages
  • Phone: 541-346-4042
  • Office: 224 Friendly Hall
  • Affiliated Departments: Humanities Program
  • Interests: Italian and French literature of the Middle Ages; comparative medieval literature; medieval lyric and romance; Dante; Boccaccio; translation; medieval feminist scholarship; discourse analysis; metadisciplinary issues in medieval literary study; history of

Sergio Rigoletto

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  • Title: Associate Professor of Cinema Studies and Italian
  • Phone: 541-346-4033
  • Office: 424 Friendly Hall
  • Affiliated Departments: Comparative Literature, European Studies