Faculty

Susan Anderson

Title: Professor of German
Phone: 541-346-4056
Email: susana@uoregon.edu
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

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

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: MW 1:30–2:30 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.

Title: Pro Tem Instructor
Phone: 541-346-4051
Email: ehoward2@uoregon.edu
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

Title: Associate Professor
Additional Title: Director of Graduate Studies
Phone: 541-346-2818
Email: klebes@uoregon.edu
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.

Title: Professor of German & Scandinavian
Additional Title: Department Head
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 Department
Interests: German, French, and English letters; Enlightenment, Counter-enlightenment, Romanticism, and Modernism; literature, philosophy, critical theory, inter-arts discourse, Judaic Studies, psychoanalysis, film

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

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

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: Winter 2023: Tuesday 12:00-1:00pm 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.

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
Email: matvogel@uoregon.edu
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