CAS Humanities Faculty

Jesús Sepúlveda

Teaching Professor of Spanish Composition, Creative Writing, and Poetry

Romance Languages, Spanish, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages

Phone: 541-346-8304

Office: UO Annex 118, 1233 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403

Office Hours: T&Th 3:45-4:45pm and by appt

Research Interests: Poetry, Latin American and Spanish Literature, World Literature, Creative Writing, Shamanism, Avant-Garde and Post Avant-Garde Movements, Intoxicated Texts, Green Anarchy, Southern Cone, Critical Theory, Global Studies

Steven Shankman

Professor Emeritus

UNESCO Chair in Transcultural Studies, Interreligious Dialogue, and Peace

English

Email: info@uoregon.College

Office Hours: Not teaching ENG this term; available via email

Research Interests: Comparative literature, the classical tradition in English and American literature, the eighteenth century, and the history of literary theory

Stephen Shoemaker

Professor; Department Head, Religious Studies

History of Christianity

Humanities Program, Middle East and North African Studies, Medieval Studies, Religious Studies, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies

Email: info@uoregon.College

Phone: 541-346-4998

Office: 348 Susan Campbell Hall, 1294 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1294

Office Hours: By appointment only

Emily Simnitt

Teaching Professor

Director, WSCR Minor

Digital Humanities, English, SAIL

Email: info@uoregon.College

Phone: 541-346-3517

Office: 301E Tykeson Hall, 1286 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286

Office Hours: W 10-12, 301E Tykeson F 3-4, Zoom (email for link)

Research Interests: digital rhetoric, civic engagement, first-year writing

Nathaniel Sims

Assistant Professor

Linguistics

Email: info@uoregon.College

Office Hours: Monday 9-11 AM

Research Interests: language documentation and revitalization, historical linguistics, Trans-Himalayan languages

André Sirois

Instructor

Multimedia Supervisor

Cinema Studies

Email: info@uoregon.College

Office: 330 Villard Hall, 6223 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403

Research Interests: Intellectual Property Law, Subcultural Studies, Pop Culture, and Hip Hop Studies

Bjorn Smars

Associate Teaching Professor

Assistant Department Head of English

English

Email: info@uoregon.College

Phone: 541-346-3977

Office: 223 PLC, 1286 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286

Office Hours: Spring Term 2026: Tuesdays and Thursdays 12:00pm to 1:30pm, or by appointment

Bennet Smith

Assistant Teaching Professor

English

Email: info@uoregon.College

Phone: 541-346-1588

Office Hours: Fall Term: In-person Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9 a.m. - 10 a.m. Zoom: Wednesdays from 9 a.m. - 10 a.m. Or: by appointment!

Helen Southworth

Professor

Digital Humanities, English

Email: info@uoregon.College

Phone: 541-346-3940

Office: 275 PLC, 1286 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286

Office Hours: Not teaching Spring 2024

Research Interests: Modernism, Virginia Woolf, Life-Writing, Archives, Digital Humanities, Book History, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Visual Culture, Comics and Cartoon Studies

Beata Stawarska

Professor of Philosophy

Black Studies, Philosophy

Email: info@uoregon.College

Office: 247 Susan Campbell Hall, 1295 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1295

Research Interests: Contemporary European Philosophy (Phenomenology, Structuralism and Post-Structuralism), Feminism, African and Africana Philosophy, Philosophy of Language (broadly construed).

Daniel Gómez Steinhart

Associate Professor

Cinema Studies

Email: info@uoregon.College

Phone: 541-346-2360

Office: 232 Villard Hall, 6233 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403

Research Interests: Global Hollywood history, production studies, film aesthetics, US independent film, and contemporary global art cinema

Michael Stern

Associate Professor of German & Scandinavian

Director of Undergraduate Studies Scandinavian

German & Scandinavian, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages

Email: info@uoregon.College

Phone: 541-346-4126

Office: 112B Mac Court, 1250 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403

Office Hours: Spring 2026, M 12-1 and by appointment

Research Interests: Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Western European Intellectual History, Africana philosophy, literature, and film, 19th Century Scandinavian Literature and film, decolonial thought

Julie Sykes

Professor

Director of Center for Applied Second Language Studies

Language Teaching Studies, Linguistics

Email: info@uoregon.College

Phone: 541-346-5699

Office: 277 Straub Hall, 5290 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403

Office Hours: By appointment only

Thomas Tasker

Teaching Professor

English

Email: info@uoregon.College

Phone: 541-346-1596

Office Hours: Winter Term 2026: MW 11:30 - 1:00

Analisa Taylor

Associate Professor of Spanish

Romance Languages, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages

Email: info@uoregon.College

Phone: **********

Office: 129 McKenzie Hall (Yamada Language Center)

Office Hours: Mondays and Wednesdays 2:30 to 3:30 pm and by appointment

Research Interests: Culture and Social Movements inLatinx USA and Latin America; Mesoamerican Foodways, Migrations, and Human Rights; Ecology, Culture, Capital, and the State in Mexico and the Americas