CAS Humanities Faculty

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Brian Trapp

Senior Instructor
Director of Disability Studies; Kidd Creative Writing Workshops Program Director
Creative Writing Program, Disability Studies
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Phone: 541-346-0508
Office: 108 Alder Bldg, 5243 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Office Hours: Fall 26: Mondays 1:30-3:30 pm & by appointment over Zoom
Research Interests: creative writing, disability studies, fiction, creative nonfiction, literary editing, comedy, contemporary literature, history of the novel
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Mark T. Unno

Professor of Religious Studies
East Asian Religions, Japanese Buddhism, Classical Japanese Buddhism, Early Chinese Thought, Comparative Ethics, Buddhism and Psychotherapy
Asian Studies, Medieval Studies, Religious Studies
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Phone: 541-346-4973
Office: 334 Susan Campbell Hall, 1294 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1294
Office Hours: Mondays 4:30pm-5:15pm on Zoom, Tuesdays 1:00pm-1:45pm on Zoom and by appointment
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Alejandro Vallega

Professor of Philosophy
Committee on Diversity & Inclusiveness
Philosophy
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Office: 248 Susan Campbell Hall, 1295 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1295
Office Hours: Wednesday 2:30-4:30
Research Interests: Continental Philosophy (Deconstruction, Phenomenology, and Hermeneutics); Latin American Thought; Ancient Greek Philosophy. Aesthetic Philosophy. World philosophies.
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Daniela Vallega-Neu

Professor of Philosophy
Philosophy
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Office: 240 Susan Campbell Hall, 1295 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1295
Office Hours: Winter 2026: Wednesday from 3:30-5:30 pm By appointment on zoom
Research Interests: 19th and 20th Century European Thought (especially Nietzsche, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Contemporary French thought); Phenomenology; Hermeneutics; Deconstruction; Ontology related to issues of body.
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Matthias Vogel

Teaching Professor and Language Coordinator'
Director of Undergraduate Studies, German
German & Scandinavian, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages
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Phone: 541-337-2634
Office: 220B Agate Hall
Office Hours: Winter 2025: Mo/We 11:00 AM to 11:50 AM and by appointment
Research Interests: German language, culture, and pedagogy; Globalization and Global Engagement Issues; Study Abroad; Identity Discourses and Multiculturalism; Food Studies; Higher Education Organizational Leadership; Academic Residential Communities and Residential Life
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Lily Vuong

Associate Professor
Religious Studies, Medieval Studies
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Phone: 541-346-4904
Office Hours: M/W 9:30-10:30 or by appointment.
Research Interests: Early Christianity, Early Judaism, Christian Apocryphal and Pseudepigraphal writings, Representations of Women and the Construction of Gender in the Ancient World, Jewish and Christian Identities and Relations in Late Antiquity, Literary and Feminist Approaches to Biblical Interpretation.
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David Wacks

Professor of Spanish
Romance Languages, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages
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Phone: 541-346-4029
Office: 205 Agate Hall
Office Hours: T 11:30-1:30 and by appointment: https://tinyurl.com/5n8wywns
Research Interests: Medieval Iberian literature and culture, Sephardic studies, Mediterranean Studies
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Angela Waddell

Assistant Teaching Professor
English
Phone: Email is best
Office: TYK 301 D
Office Hours: Check current Canvas site
Research Interests: Rhetoric, Composition, Community Teaching
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Eleanor Wakefield

Associate Teaching Professor
Director of Composition Program Writing Lab
English
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Phone: 541-346-0055
Office: 301B Tykeson Hall, 1286 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286
Office Hours: Fall 2026, Winter 2027: on sabbatical
Research Interests: American literature, Modernism, poetry and poetics, sonnets, women's poetry, early 20th century poetry; composition studies, the politics of sports, research writing, student motivation and engagement; writing tutoring and student support.
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Sarah D. Wald

Professor, Environmental Studies & English
English, Environmental Studies, Food Studies, IRES, Latinx
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Phone: 541-346-1613
Office Hours: Mon, 7-7:45pm (Zoom only) Tues, 3:30-4:15 pm (PLC 443/Zoom) (3:20-3:40 reserved for ENVS 203 students) Thur, 12-12:30 pm (PLC 443/Zoom) Sign Up for Office Hours: https://goo.gl/ZUocxh
Research Interests: Environmental Justice, Environmental Humanities, Asian American Literary and Cultural Studies, Latinx Literary and Cultural Studies, Food Studies, Farmworker Justice, Immigration/Migration, 20/21st Century US Literature, American Studies
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Karen Thompson Walker

Associate Professor
Associate Professor
Creative Writing Program
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Phone: 541-346-0544
Office: 212 Alder Bldg, 5243 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-5243
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Glynne Walley

Associate Professor, Japanese Literature
East Asian Languages, Folklore Program, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages
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Office: Mac Court 104A
Office Hours: on sabbatical leave AY 2026-2027
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Yugen Wang

Professor of Chinese Literature, Chinese Sector Head
East Asian Languages, Medieval Studies, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages
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Phone: 541-346-3503
Office Hours: Fall 2026 TUE 3-5 pm on Zoom
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Peter A. Warnek

Associate Professor of Philosophy
Philosophy
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Office: 246 Susan Campbell Hall, 1295 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1295
Office Hours: Spring 2026: Tuesday, 2-4 pm.
Research Interests: Ancient Philosophy, 19th-20th Century Continental Philosophy, Kant, Philosophy of Nature, Myth, Tragedy, History of Philosophy
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Janet Wasko

Professor of Media Studies and Knight Chair in Communication Research Emeritus
Affiliated Faculty, New Media & Culture Program and Cinema Studies
SOJC, SOJC-Media Studies Master's, SOJC-Media Studies PhD, SOJC-Media Studies Undergrad, Cinema Studies
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Phone: 541-346-4174
Office: 208 Allen Hall
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Paul Watts-Offret

Assistant Teaching Professor
English
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Phone: 541-346-1338
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Rachel Weissler

Assistant Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies in Linguistics and Interdisciplinary Cognitive Sciences
Black Studies, Linguistics
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Office: Straub Hall 375
Office Hours: Use Dr. Weissler's booking link or email Dr. Weissler to set up a meeting
Research Interests: sociolinguistics, emotion perception, neurolinguistics, language experience, language ideologies, raciolinguistics, language and social justice
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Mark Whalan

Robert D. and Eve E. Horn Professor of English
Head of English
English, Black Studies
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Phone: 541-346-3926
Office: 118 PLC, 1286 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286
Office Hours: By appointment
Research Interests: Modernist studies; American literary and cultural studies, 1900-1950; First World War Studies; Harlem Renaissance; African American Literary Studies
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Elizabeth (Betsy) Wheeler

Professor
Comics and Cartoon Studies, Disability Studies, English
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Office: 238 PLC, 1286 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286
Research Interests: Disability Studies, Comics and Cartoon Studies, American Studies, Postmodern and Contemporary Literary Studies, Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity
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Colin Williamson

Associate Professor
Cinema Studies
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Phone: 541-346-1333
Office: 333 Villard Hall, 6223 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Research Interests: early cinema; animation; special effects; nontheatrical film; film theory; media archaeology; film & media archives; pedagogical innovation