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Susan Anderson

Title: Professor of German
Phone: 541-346-4056
Email: susana@uoregon.edu
Office: 321 Friendly Hall
Departments: German & Scandinavian
Affiliated Departments: Environmental Studies, European Studies, Translation Studies, Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies
Interests: German and Austrian literature and culture from the late 19th century to the present

Aneesh Aneesh

Title: Executive Director, School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: aaneesh@uoregon.edu
Office: 114 Friendly Hall
Departments: German & Scandinavian, Global Studies
Affiliated Departments: Sociology
Interests: Globalization, technology, labor, migration, citizenship, theory
Website: Website

Ray Balstad

Title: Graduate Program Coordinator
Phone: 541-346-2703
Email: rbalstad@uoregon.edu
Office: 114D Friendly Hall
Office Hours: MTWRF 8:30am - 4:30pm
Departments: African Studies, Asian Studies, Chinese, College of Arts and Sciences, East Asian Languages, European Studies, Food Studies, French, German & Scandinavian, Global Studies, Italian, Japanese, Judaic Studies Program, Korean, Middle East and North African Studies, OCIAS, Portuguese, Romance Languages, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program, Yamada Language Center
Interests: French, Film, Comics, Foreign Language Acquisition, Botany

Fatima Benhabyb

Title: Undergraduate Program Coordinator
Phone: 541-346-2047
Email: fatimab@uoregon.edu
Office: 114 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: MTWRF 8:30am-4:30pm [Remote Fridays]
Departments: African Studies, Asian Studies, East Asian Languages, European Studies, Food Studies, French, German & Scandinavian, Global Health Program, Global Studies, Italian, Japanese, Judaic Studies Program, Korean, Latin American Studies, Middle East and North African Studies, Romance Languages, Romance Languages Major, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program

Kenneth Calhoon

Title: Professor of Comparative Literature and German
Phone: 541-346-4060
Email: kcalhoon@uoregon.edu
Office: 356 PLC
Departments: Comparative Literature, German & Scandinavian
Affiliated Departments: Cinema Studies Program
Interests: German literature, aesthetics, psychoanalysis, visual arts, early cinema

Miriam Chorley-Schulz

Title: Assistant Professor and Mokin Fellow of Holocaust Studies
Email: miriams@uoregon.edu
Office: 419 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Mo, 1–2pm or by appointment
Departments: German & Scandinavian, Judaic Studies Program
Affiliated Departments: History, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies
Interests: Jewish Studies, Yiddish Studies, Holocaust Studies, Fascism Studies, Soviet Union, German Studies
Website: Website

Annie Christofferson

Title: Undergraduate & Program Coordinator
Phone: 541-346-0746
Email: achrist8@uoregon.edu
Office: Friendly 114
Departments: French, German & Scandinavian, Global Studies, Italian, Judaic Studies Program, Portuguese, Romance Languages, Spanish

Alex Colombo

Title: PhD Student
Additional Title: Graduate Employee
Email: acolombo@uoregon.edu
Office: 16 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Wed. 1-3PM, or by appointment
Departments: German & Scandinavian
Interests: Feminist Theories & Philosophy, Holocaust Studies, Fascism Studies, Gender, Sexuality, Queer & Trans Studies, Feminist Epistemology, Political Philosophy, Decolonial Philosophy, Critical Theory

Olivia Denton

Title: Faculty Support Coordinator
Additional Title: ASU 1 - School of Global Studies and Languages
Phone: 541-346-1385
Email: odenton@uoregon.edu
Office: 107 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: MTWTF 9:00-5:00
Departments: African Studies, Asian Studies, Chinese, East Asian Languages, Food Studies, French, German & Scandinavian, Global Health Program, Global Studies, Ichishkiin Language, Italian, Japanese, Judaic Studies Program, Korean, Latin American Studies, Middle East and North African Studies, Modern Hebrew Language, Northwest Indian Language Institute, OCIAS, Portuguese, Romance Languages, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program, Yamada Language Center

Brita Ellis

Title: Academic Programs Manager
Phone: 541-346-9782
Email: bellis5@uoregon.edu
Office: Friendly 114E
Departments: African Studies, Asian Studies, Chinese, College of Arts and Sciences, East Asian Languages, Food Studies, French, German & Scandinavian, Global Studies, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Middle East and North African Studies, OCIAS, Portuguese, Romance Languages, Romance Languages Major, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish
Affiliated Departments: School of Global Studies and Languages

Gantt Gurley

Title: Associate Professor
Additional Title: Program Director, Harold Schnitzer Family Program in Judaic Studies, Advisor
Phone: 541-346-4055
Email: gantt@uoregon.edu
Office: 319 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: F 10–2 or by appointment
Departments: Clark Honors College, German & Scandinavian, Judaic Studies Program
Affiliated Departments: Comics and Cartoon Studies, Comparative Literature, European Studies, Folklore Program, Judaic Studies Program, Medieval Studies
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.

Michael Hansen

Title: Graduate Employee
Email: mhansen8@uoregon.edu
Office: Friendly 2
Office Hours: Wednesday, 10:00 - 12:00
Departments: German & Scandinavian, Humanities Program

Lisa Hoeller

Title: Instructor
Phone: 541-346-4051
Email: lhoeller@uoregon.edu
Office: 117 Friendly Hall
Departments: German & Scandinavian

Martin Klebes

Title: Associate Professor
Phone: 541-346-2818
Email: klebes@uoregon.edu
Office: 205 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: On leave
Departments: German & Scandinavian
Affiliated Departments: Clark Honors College, European Studies
Interests: 18th- through 21st-century German and French literature, philosophy and critical thought.

Filip Kletnikov

Title: PhD Student
Additional Title: Graduate Employee
Email: filipk@uoregon.edu
Office: Friendly Hall 16
Office Hours: Spring Term 2024: by appointment (Location: Yamada Language Center, MCK 175)
Departments: German & Scandinavian
Interests: Nihilism, Anarchism, Poetry, Expressionism, Decadence, Female Mysticism

Jonathan Knight

Title: Operations Coordinator
Phone: 541-346-0951
Email: jknight6@uoregon.edu
Office: 114 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: 8-4:30 M-F
Departments: African Studies, Asian Studies, College of Arts and Sciences, East Asian Languages, European Studies, Food Studies, German & Scandinavian, Global Health Program, Global Studies, Ichishkiin Language, Italian, Japanese, Judaic Studies Program, Korean, Latin American Studies, Middle East and North African Studies, Native American Studies, Northwest Indian Language Institute, Portuguese, Romance Languages, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program, Yamada Language Center
Affiliated Departments: Global Studies

Tobias Lehmann

Title: PhD Candidate
Additional Title: Graduate Employee
Phone: 541-346-4051
Email: tlehmann@uoregon.edu
Office: 312 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Mondays and Wednesdays from 4 to 5 PM via Zoom
Departments: German & Scandinavian
Affiliated Departments: School of Global Studies and Languages
Interests: Post-Wall Germany, Postwar Literature (esp. Committed Literature), Critical Thought, E. Bloch, Holocaust Studies, F. Nietzsche
Website: Website

Jeffrey S. Librett

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

Dawn Marlan

Title: Senior Lecturer I
Phone: 541-346-0934
Email: damarlan@uoregon.edu
Office: 313C Villard Hall
Office Hours: By Appointment
Departments: Comparative Literature, German & Scandinavian, SAIL
Affiliated Departments: Clark Honors College
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.

Robbie Marshall

Title: Graduate Coordinator | ASU 1
Phone: 541-346-0195
Email: robertm1@uoregon.edu
Office: 114D | Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Monday - Friday | 8:30 am - 4:30 pm | Thursdays Virtual
Departments: African Studies, Asian Studies, Chinese, College of Arts and Sciences, East Asian Languages, Food Studies, French, German & Scandinavian, Global Studies, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Middle East and North African Studies, OCIAS, Portuguese, Romance Languages, Romance Languages Major, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program

Alexander Mathas

Title: Professor Emeritus
Phone: 541-346-4101
Email: mathaesa@uoregon.edu
Office: 321 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: By appointment
Departments: European Studies, German & Scandinavian
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

Jordan Morris

Title: Office Generalist, ASU 1
Phone: 541-346-2579
Email: jmor@uoregon.edu
Departments: German & Scandinavian

McRae Naayers

Title: Faculty Support Coordinator
Phone: 5413460171
Email: mnaayers@uoregon.edu
Office: Friendly 107
Office Hours: Mon-Fri 8:30-5:00
Departments: African Studies, Asian Studies, East Asian Languages, European Studies, Food Studies, German & Scandinavian, Global Health Program, Global Studies, Ichishkiin Language, Judaic Studies Program, Latin American Studies, Middle East and North African Studies, Modern Hebrew Language, Northwest Indian Language Institute, Romance Languages, Romance Languages Major, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, School of Global Studies and Languages, Yamada Language Center
Affiliated Departments: African Studies, Asian Studies, East Asian Languages, European Studies, Food Studies, German & Scandinavian, Global Health Program, Global Studies, Ichishkiin Language, Judaic Studies Program, Latin American Studies, Middle East and North African Studies, Modern Hebrew Language, Northwest Indian Language Institute, OCIAS, Romance Languages, Romance Languages Major, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, School of Global Studies and Languages, Yamada Language Center

Karen Neal

Title: UG Coordinator
Phone: 541-346-4051
Email: kjneal@uoregon.edu
Office: 114 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: M-F: 8:00am - 12:00pm
Departments: Asian Studies, East Asian Languages, German & Scandinavian, Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages

Griffin O'Neill

Title: MA student
Email: goneill@uoregon.edu
Departments: German & Scandinavian, History
Affiliated Departments: German & Scandinavian, History

Dorothee Ostmeier

Title: Professor of German, and Folklore and Public Culture
Additional Title: Head, Department of Theater Arts
Phone: 541-346-4245
Email: ostmeier@uoregon.edu
Office: 215 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Tue/Thu 1:20 to 2 PM GSH 103 Afterwards Villard until 3:30 PM and by appointment
Departments: German & Scandinavian, Theatre Arts
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

Melissa Palma

Title: Intercultural Experience and Career Readiness Coordinator, School of Global Studies and Languages
Additional Title: College of Arts and Sciences ASU 1
Phone: 541-346-9780
Email: mpalma3@uoregon.edu
Departments: African Studies, Asian Studies, Chinese, East Asian Languages, European Studies, Food Studies, French, German & Scandinavian, Global Health Program, Global Studies, Ichishkiin Language, Italian, Japanese, Judaic Studies Program, Korean, Latin American Studies, Middle East and North African Studies, Modern Hebrew Language, Northwest Indian Language Institute, Portuguese, Romance Languages, Romance Languages Major, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish, Yamada Language Center

Helmut Plant

Title: Associate Professor Emeritus
Phone: 541-344-0748
Email: hplant@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: by appointment
Departments: German & Scandinavian, SAIL

Daniel Quintero Plata

Title: PhD Student
Phone: 541-346-4084
Email: danielq@uoregon.edu
Office: 202 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Departments: German & Scandinavian

Amanda Robinson

Title: PhD Student
Phone: 541-346-4051
Email: arobinso@uoregon.edu
Office: 310 Friendly Hall
Departments: German & Scandinavian

Andrea Romero Dugarte

Title: Executive Support Coordinator
Phone: 541-346-4007
Office: Friendly Hall 114
Departments: African Studies, Asian Studies, East Asian Languages, European Studies, Food Studies, German & Scandinavian, Global Health Program, Global Studies, Ichishkiin Language, Judaic Studies Program, Latin American Studies, Middle East and North African Studies, Modern Hebrew Language, Northwest Indian Language Institute, Romance Languages, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, School of Global Studies and Languages, Yamada Language Center
Website: Website

Lisa Ross

Title: Associate Director
Phone: 541-346-4005
Email: lgillis@uoregon.edu
Office: 107D Friendly Hall
Office Hours: M-F 8-5
Departments: African Studies, Asian Studies, Chinese, East Asian Languages, Food Studies, French, German & Scandinavian, Global Health Program, Global Studies, Ichishkiin Language, Italian, Japanese, Judaic Studies Program, Korean, Middle East and North African Studies, Modern Hebrew Language, Northwest Indian Language Institute, OCIAS, Portuguese, Romance Languages, Romance Languages Major, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program, Yamada Language Center
Affiliated Departments: Food Studies, Judaic Studies Program, Yamada Language Center

Rebecca Schuman

Title: Pro Tem Instructor
Email: rschuman@uoregon.edu
Office: 107C Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Fall 2021: Wednesday: 1:00-2:00pm and Thursday: 8:30-10:00am; email for Zoom link
Departments: German & Scandinavian

Preetham Sridharan

Title: Graduate Employee
Phone: 541-346-4802
Email: preetham@uoregon.edu
Office: 340P McKenzie Hall
Office Hours: Fall 2023, Tue 10:00am-12:00pm
Departments: German & Scandinavian, History
Affiliated Departments: German & Scandinavian, History
Interests: Modern European intellectual history, nineteenth and twentieth-century Europe, history of religious and linguistic thought, modern German history

Michael Stern

Title: Associate Professor of German & Scandinavian
Additional Title: Director of Undergraduate Studies Scandinavian
Phone: 541-346-4126
Email: mjstern@uoregon.edu
Office: 204 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Spring 2023: Tuesdays and Thursdays 12:00pm-1:00pm and by appointment
Departments: German & Scandinavian
Affiliated Departments: Clark Honors College, Comparative Literature, Humanities Program, Philosophy
Interests: Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Western European Intellectual History, African literature, film, and thought, 19th Century Scandinavian Literature.

Marci Viano-Davis

Title: Operations Manager
Additional Title: ASU 1 - School of Global Studies and Languages
Phone: 541-346-4019
Email: marcid@uoregon.edu
Office: 116 Friendly
Office Hours: 9-3 M-F
Departments: College of Arts and Sciences, East Asian Languages, Food Studies, German & Scandinavian, Global Health Program, Global Studies, Ichishkiin Language, Italian, Japanese, Judaic Studies Program, Latin American Studies, Middle East and North African Studies, Northwest Indian Language Institute, OCIAS, Romance Languages, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program, Yamada Language Center
Affiliated Departments: African Studies, Asian Studies

Matthias Vogel

Title: Senior Instructor II and Language Coordinator
Additional Title: Director of Undergraduate Studies, German and Faculty Fellow, Building C
Phone: 541-346-4053
Email: matvogel@uoregon.edu
Office: 208 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Winter 2023: Mo/We 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM
Departments: German & Scandinavian
Affiliated Departments: Global Studies
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

Olivia Wilkinson

Title: Student Office Worker
Email: owilkin2@uoregon.edu
Office: Office 114 Friendly Hall
Departments: German & Scandinavian

Jeremiah Young

Title: PhD Student
Phone: 541-346-4051
Email: jyoung7@uoregon.edu
Office: 312 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: M:10-11; T:12-1 or by appointment
Departments: German & Scandinavian
Interests: Trauma, Old Norse Literature, Romanticism, Narratology, Oral Tradition, Psychoanalysis, Ecocriticism

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