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Comparative Literature

Comparative Literature

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Sangita Gopal

Professor
Comparative Literature, Cinema Studies
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Phone: 541-346-5524
Office: 332 Villard Hall, 6223 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Research Interests: Postcolonial Theory and Literature, South Asian Visual and Cultural Studies
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Evlyn Gould

Professor Emerita
College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor in Humanities
Comparative Literature, French, Judaic Studies Program, Romance Languages
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Research Interests: nineteenth century French studies,Jewish studies,European studies,interdisciplinary studies in literature, music, dance
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Anna Hall-Taylor

Comparative Literature Graduate Student/ GE
Comparative Literature
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Scott Hill

Operations Coordinator
Classics, Comparative Literature, Comparative Literature Journal, Digital Humanities, Disability Studies, English, Environmental Studies, Folklore Program, Humanities Program, Medieval Studies, Northwest Indian Language Institute, Philosophy, Religious Studies
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Phone: 541-346-0355
Office Hours: M-F 8am-12pm and 1-5pm
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Anna Hindley

Graduate Program Coordinator, ASU 3
Classics, Comparative Literature, English, Folklore Program, Humanities Program, Medieval Studies, Philosophy, Religious Studies
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Phone: 5413462356
Office: 338 PLC, 1286 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
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Katya Hokanson

Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature
Director of Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, Head, Department of Comparative Literature
Comparative Literature, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages
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Phone: 541-346-3947
Office: 357 PLC, 1249 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Office Hours: Spring 2026: Thursdays from 1-3 p.m., Fridays from 9:30-11 a.m. and by appointment.
Research Interests: 19th-century Russian literature, women's writing, and Russian colonialism.
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Fatou Jobe

Comparative Literature Graduate Student/ENG GE
Comparative Literature, English
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Research Interests: Film and Media studies, African cinema, African studies, Global South Studies.
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Matthias Kramer

Comparative Literature Graduate Student
Comparative Literature
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Office Hours: Wednesdays, 11:30-1:30
Research Interests: Speculative Thought and Speculative Fiction, Japanese and Anglophone Literature and Popular Media, Literary Translation, Queer Futurity
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Marena Lear

Comparative Literature Graduate Student/ GE
Comparative Literature
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Phone: 541-346-1515
Office: 23 PLC
Research Interests: Interests: Latin American and Latinx film & media, decoloniality, new materialism, posthuman feminism, science fiction and gothic genre studies
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Sophia Lewis

Comparative Literature Graduate Student/ GE
Comparative Literature
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Research Interests: 19th century Russian literature, Japanese literature in the Meiji-era, Soviet literature, Kazakh literature, G.W.F. Hegel, sociology of literature, continental philosophy, dialectical thought, political economy
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You Li

Comparative Literature
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Research Interests: Visual Arts, Affect Studies, Ethics of Care
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Yei Won Lim

Comparative Literature Graduate Student/ GE
Comparative Literature
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Phone: 541-346-1307
Office: 215 PLC, 1286 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286
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Chutong Liu

Comparative Literature Graduate Student/GE
Comparative Literature
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Office Hours: Spring Term: MW 1-2pm
Research Interests: Russian literature and ballet in the second half of the 19th-century, Silver Age of Russian poetry, 20th-century Soviet and Chinese Socialist Realism
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Massimo Lollini

Professor Emeritus of Italian
Comparative Literature, Italian, Romance Languages
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Research Interests: Humanisms, More-than-Human-Humanism and Ecocriticism, Digital Culture and New Media, Digital Philology, Mediterranean Studies, Italian and European literature and theory.
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Christina Lujin

Operations Specialist ASU 3
Classics, Comparative Literature, Comparative Literature Journal, Digital Humanities, Disability Studies, English, Folklore Program, Humanities Program, Medieval Studies, Northwest Indian Language Institute, Philosophy, Religious Studies
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Phone: 541-346-1327
Office: 311 PLC, 1286 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Office Hours: PLC: MTW 12:30-4pm, Remote: MTW 7am-11:30am and ThF 7:30am-4pm
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Aishwarya Marathe

Comparative Literature Graduate Student/GE
Comparative Literature
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Office Hours: R 11:30 a.m.-2 p.m., by appointment (Fall 2026)
Research Interests: contemporary diasporic literature and cinema in the US/UK/France, South Asian film and visual culture, gender studies, feminist theory/philosophy, epistemology, ethics, postcolonial/decolonial studies, poetics Working Languages: French, Hindi, Urdu, Marathi, Persian
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Dawn Marlan

Teaching Professor
COLT Director of Undergraduate Studies
Comparative Literature, German & Scandinavian, SAIL
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Phone: 541-346-0934
Office: 363 PLC, 1249 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Office Hours: By Appointment
Research Interests: Interests: History and theory of the novel in Europe and the US, comparative modernism, contemporary fiction, visual culture, and creative writing, specifically literary nonfiction and fiction.
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Kit McDunn

Comparative Literature Graduate Student/GE
Comparative Literature
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Office: 315 PLC
Office Hours: Fall Term: Tuesday and Thursday 11:30am-1pm and 3:30pm-5pm
Research Interests: Ecology in Soviet and post-Soviet science fiction; representations of mutancy and damage to organic bodies and landscapes; posthumanism; environmental humanities; contemporary Russian and Ukrainian science fiction
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Susan Meyers

Faculty Support Specialist ASU 3
Arabic Studies, Classics, Comparative Literature, English, Folklore Program, Humanities Program, Judaic Studies Program, Medieval Studies, Philosophy, Religious Studies, Environmental Studies
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Phone: 541-346-1516
Office: 338 PLC
Office Hours: M-W:7:30-4:30, R: Remote 7:30-4:30, F: Remote 7:30-2:00
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Leah Middlebrook

Professor of Comparative Literature and Spanish
Director, Oregon Humanities Center (OHC)
Comparative Literature, Romance Languages, Spanish, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages
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Phone: 541-346-3103
Office: 355 PLC Hall
Office Hours: F 2026 Fridays, 10:30-11:30 a.m. or by appt.
Research Interests: poetry and poetics; comparative modernities; imperium studies; critical race studies; Cervantes; early modern literature and culture of Spain, the Spanish Americas, France and Great Britain