Faculty

Susan Anderson

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  • Title: Professor of German
  • Phone: 541-346-4056
  • Office: 321 Friendly Hall
  • Office Hours: Winter 2023: Not teaching this term
  • Departments: German & Scandinavian
  • Affiliated Departments: Comparative Literature, 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

Kenneth Calhoon

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  • Title: Professor of Comparative Literature and German, Director of Comparative Literature Graduate Studies
  • Phone: 541-346-4060
  • Office: 315 Villard Hall
  • Departments: Comparative Literature, German & Scandinavian
  • Affiliated Departments: Cinema Studies Program
  • Interests: German literature, aesthetics, psychoanalysis, visual arts, early cinema

Gantt Gurley

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  • Title: Associate Professor
  • Additional Title: Program Director, Harold Schnitzer Family Program in Judaic Studies, Advisor
  • Phone: 541-346-4055
  • Office: 319 Friendly Hall
  • Office Hours: M 2:00-4:00 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.

Elizabeth Howard

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  • Title: Pro Tem Instructor
  • Phone: 541-346-4051
  • Office: 107C Friendly Hall
  • Office Hours: Fall 2022: Tuesdays 12-2pm
  • Departments: German & Scandinavian
  • Interests: French and Scandinavian Folk and Fairy Tales; Poetry and Poetics; Feminist Theory; Gender Studies; Children's Literature; Translation Studies

Martin Klebes

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  • Title: Associate Professor
  • Additional Title: Director of Graduate Studies
  • Phone: 541-346-2818
  • Office: 205 Friendly Hall
  • Office Hours: Winter 2023: Monday: 11:30am-1:30pm and by appointment; Zoom by appointment
  • Departments: German & Scandinavian
  • Affiliated Departments: European Studies
  • Interests: 18th- through 21st-century German and French literature, philosophy and critical thought.

Jeffrey S. Librett

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

Alexander Mathas

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  • Title: Professor Emeritus
  • Phone: 541-346-4101
  • 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

Dorothee Ostmeier

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  • Title: Professor of German, and Folklore and Public Culture
  • Additional Title: Head, Department of Theater Arts
  • Phone: 541-346-4245
  • 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

Michael Stern

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

Matthias Vogel

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  • Title: Senior Instructor II and Language Coordinator
  • Additional Title: Faculty in Residence, Global Scholars Hall and Director of Undergraduate Studies German
  • Phone: 541-346-4053
  • Office: 208 Friendly Hall
  • Office Hours: Winter 2023: Tuesdays 9:00 AM to 1 PM
  • Departments: German & Scandinavian, SAIL
  • Affiliated Departments: Administrator Licensure Program
  • 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