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Participating Faculty

Michael Aronson

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  • Affiliation: faculty
  • Title: Associate Professor
  • Additional Title: Director of Cinema Studies
  • Phone: 541-346-3927
  • Office: 101 PLC
  • Affiliated Departments: English

Monique Balbuena

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  • Affiliation: faculty
  • Title: Associate Professor of Comparative Literature
  • Phone: 541-346-2311
  • Office: 345 PLC
  • Affiliated Departments: Judaic Studies Program
  • Interests: Comparative Literature and Jewish Studies, Sephardic Languages, Ladino, Poetry, French and Francophone Literatures, Latin American Studies

Diane Baxter

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  • Affiliation: courtesy, instructor
  • Title: Senior Lecturer 1
  • Additional Title: Pro Tem Instructor
  • Phone: none
  • Office: none
  • Affiliated Departments: Anthropology
  • Programs, Research and Outreach: Legal Studies

Shaul Cohen

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  • Affiliation: faculty
  • Title: Associate Professor
  • Additional Title: Director, UO Prison Education Program; Director, Carnegie Global Oregon Ethics Program
  • Phone: 541-346-4500
  • Office: 107G Condon Hall
  • Office Hours: Thursday 2:30-3:30PM, or by appointment
  • Affiliated Departments: Clark Honors College
  • Teaching Level: Doctoral, Masters, Undergraduate
  • Interests: Prison Education, Ethics, Ethno-territorial conflict, Environment
  • Website: Website

Rick Colby

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  • Affiliation: faculty
  • Title: Associate Professor
  • Additional Title: Religious Studies Advisor
  • Phone: 541-346-5735
  • Office: 333 Susan Campbell Hall
  • Office Hours: Thursday 2:00pm-3:50pm
  • Affiliated Departments: Middle East and North African Studies, Medieval Studies

Miriam Gershow

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  • Affiliation: fixed term enduring faculty
  • Title: Senior Instructor II
  • Phone: 541-346-0051
  • Office: 237 PLC
  • Office Hours: Spring Term: W 1-2:30pm, F 11am-12:30pm (Zoom link: https://uoregon.zoom.us/my/mgershow)
  • Affiliated Departments: Creative Writing Program
  • Teaching Level: Undergraduate
  • Twitter: Twitter
  • Website: Website

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

Deborah Green

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  • Affiliation: faculty
  • Title: Greenberg Associate Professor, Hebrew Language & Literature
  • Phone: 541-346-5974
  • Office: 352 Susan Campbell Hall
  • Office Hours: TBA
  • Affiliated Departments: Middle East and North African Studies

Kenneth Helphand

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  • Affiliation: emeritus
  • Title: Participating Faculty
  • Additional Title: Professor Emeritus
  • Phone: 541-206-8959
  • Affiliated Departments: Historic Preservation
  • Website: Website

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

David Hollenberg

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  • Affiliation: faculty
  • Title: Associate Professor
  • Additional Title: Arabic and Islamic Studies
  • Phone: 541-346-8096
  • Office: 349 Susan Campbell Hall
  • Office Hours: Thursday 12:00pm-1:00pm and by appointment
  • Affiliated Departments: Middle East and North African Studies

Heidi Kaufman

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  • Affiliation: faculty
  • Title: Associate Professor
  • Phone: 541-346-3932
  • Office: 327 PLC
  • Office Hours: Spring Term: F 10am-1pm & by appt.
  • Affiliated Departments: Judaic Studies Program
  • Teaching Level: Doctoral

C. Anne Laskaya

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  • Affiliation: faculty
  • Title: Associate Professor
  • Phone: 541-346-1517
  • Office: 357 PLC
  • Office Hours: Spring Term: Via Zoom M 12-12:30pm, R 2:30-4pm & by appt.
  • Affiliated Departments: Judaic Studies Program
  • Interests: Feminism Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Medieval Literary and Cultural Studies, Rhetoric, Composition, and Composition Pedagogy

Jeffrey Librett

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

Steven Shankman

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  • Affiliation: emeritus, faculty
  • Title: Professor Emeritus
  • Additional Title: UNESCO Chair in Transcultural Studies, Interreligious Dialogue, and Peace
  • Phone: 541-346-3997
  • Office: 373 PLC
  • Office Hours: Not teaching ENG this term; available via email
  • Affiliated Departments: Classics, Clark Honors College, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies
  • Interests: Comparative literature, the classical tradition in English and American literature, the eighteenth century, and the history of literary theory
  • Website: Website

Carol Silverman

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  • Affiliation: emeritus, faculty
  • Title: Professor Emeritus
  • Phone: 541-346-5114
  • Affiliated Departments: Folklore Program, Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies
  • Interests: Arts and human rights, music, Balkans, Roma, gender, ritual
  • Website: Website

David Wacks

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  • Affiliation: faculty
  • Title: Professor of Spanish: Department Head, Romance Languages
  • Phone: 541-346-4029
  • Office: 105C Friendly Hall
  • Office Hours: By appointment https://tinyurl.com/yfw9rr35
  • Affiliated Departments: European Studies
  • Programs, Research and Outreach: Warsaw Sports Business Center
  • Teaching Level: Doctoral, Masters, Undergraduate
  • Interests: Medieval Iberian literature and culture, Sephardic studies, Mediterranean Studies
  • Twitter: Twitter
  • Website: Website

Mary Wood

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  • Affiliation: faculty
  • Title: Professor
  • Phone: 541-346-3010
  • Office: 445 PLC
  • Office Hours: Spring Term: R 12:30-2pm in person; W 4-5:30pm on Zoom (ID: 932 4715 9358)
  • Affiliated Departments: Disability Studies, Global Health Program, Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies
  • Interests: 19th Century American Literary Studies, Autobiography Studies, Feminism Studies Gender and Sexuality Studies, Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity