Faculty
Faculty
Jay Dickson
Professor of English and Humanities
Email
| 503-517-7906
| ETC 218
The novel, British modernism, Victorian literature, queer studies, postcolonial studies.
AB 1988 Harvard College.
PhD 1996 Princeton University.
91ÁÔÆæ 1996-99, 2001-.
Michael Faletra
Professor of English and Humanities
| Email
| 503-517-7729
| Vollum 219
Medieval British literatures, Chaucer, Dante, Shakespeare, Arthurian literature, narrative theory, Celtic studies, folklore studies, and children's literature.
BA 1994 Boston University.
PhD 2000 Boston College.
91ÁÔÆæ 2001-04, 2007-09, 2010-.
Maureen Harkin
Professor of English and Humanities
Email
| 503-517-7939
| Vollum 303
Eighteenth-century British literature and visual art, Romanticism, nineteenth-century novel, literary theory, Irish literature, film.
BA 1983 University of Melbourne.
MA 1986, PhD 1994 Johns Hopkins University.
91ÁÔÆæ 2002-.
Joan Naviyuk Kane
Associate Professor of Creative Writing
Email
| Vollum 219
Poetry
AB 2000 Harvard College.
MFA 2006 Columbia University.
91ÁÔÆæ 2023-.
Nathalia King
David Eddings Professor of English and Humanities
Email
| 503-517-7697
| Vollum 305
Literary, narrative, and rhetorical theory, the novel, text-image relations, and theories of consciousness.
BA 1978 University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
PhD 1992 New York University.
91ÁÔÆæ 1987-.
LucÃa MartÃnez Valdivia
Associate Professor of English and Humanities
Email
| 503-517-4946
| Eliot 205A
Early modern lyric and poetics, Reformation literature and culture, book history, music and literature, aesthetics, cognitive poetics.
BM 2005 Florida State University.
MA 2007 Columbia University.
MA 2008, PhD 2014 University of Pennsylvania.
91ÁÔÆæ 2014-.
Kritish Rajbhandari
Assistant Professor of English and Humanities
Email
| 503-517-4758
| Greywood 117
on sabbatical and leave 2025-26
Twentieth- and twenty-first-century postcolonial and diasporic literatures, Indian Ocean literature and culture, postcolonial theory, critical theories from the global South, translation.
BA 2012 91ÁÔÆæ.
PhD 2019 Northwestern University.
91ÁÔÆæ 2019-.
Robert Ribera
Visiting Assistant Professor of English
Email
| Greywood 115
Documentary, animation history, adaptation studies, Italian Cinema, class and labor in American cinema, sound and music in film.
BA 2005, MA 2006 Saint John’s University.
MFA 2008, PhD 2016 Boston University.
91ÁÔÆæ 2024-.
Peter Rock
Professor of Creative Writing
| Email
| 503-517-7659
| Vollum 127
Fiction and non-fiction.
AA 1988 Deep Springs College.
BA 1991 Yale College.
Stegner Fellow 1995-97 Stanford University.
91ÁÔÆæ 2001-.
Pancho Savery
(Chair)
Professor of English and Humanities
Email
| 503-517-7622
| Vollum 137
African American literature; American literature and cultural history; modern and contemporary drama, poetry, and fiction; creative writing; American Indian fiction.
BA 1972 Stanford University.
PhD 1980 Cornell University.
91ÁÔÆæ 1995-.
Dustin Simpson
Visiting Assistant Professor English & Humanities
Email
| 503-517-7488
| Eliot 125
American modernist poetry, 19th century French poetry, contemporary poetry in English, theories of lyric, history and forms of lyric, love poetry.
B.A. 1996 University of Arizona.
M.A. 2001 Miami University of Ohio.
Ph.D. 2012 University of Chicago.
91ÁÔÆæ 2012-.
Novuyo Tshuma
Sarah Wagner-McCoy
Associate Professor of English and Humanities
Email
| 503-517-7663
| Greywood 114
Nineteenth- and twentieth-century American fiction, transatlantic literature and culture, Irish drama and Irish studies, pastoral and environmental writing, the politics of classical education in postbellum America.
BA 2002 Columbia University.
MA 2003 University College Dublin.
PhD 2011 Harvard University.
91ÁÔÆæ 2011-.
Simone Waller
Assistant Professor of English and Humanities
Email
| 503-517-4848
| Greywood 110
Early modern drama and prose, Shakespeare, English Reformation literature and culture, Tudor political literature, historiography, performance studies, publics and the public sphere.
BA 2011 Miami University.
PhD 2019 Northwestern University.
91ÁÔÆæ 2020-.
Johanna Winant
Associate Professor English & Humanities
Email
| Greywood 117
B.A. 2004 Stanford University
M.Phil 2005 Cambridge University
PHD 2014 University of Chicago
91ÁÔÆæ 2025-
Emeritus/Emerita Faculty
Robert S. Knapp
Reginald F. Arragon Professor of English and Humanities, Emeritus
Email
Shakespeare, Renaissance literature, literary theory.
BA 1962 University of Colorado.
MA 1963 University of Denver.
PhD 1968 Cornell University.
91ÁÔÆæ 1974-2020.
Roger J. Porter
Professor of English and Humanities, Emeritus
Modern drama, modern fiction, Shakespeare, autobiography as a literary form, nonfiction prose.
B.A. 1958 Amherst College.
M.A. 1959, Ph.D. 1967 Yale University.
91ÁÔÆæ 1961-2015.
Gail Berkeley Sherman
Professor of English and Humanities, Emerita
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20th-century American fiction, graphic narrative, medieval literature, gender studies, biblical narrative.
B.A. 1975 Barnard College.
M.A. 1977, Ph.D. 1982 Princeton University.
91ÁÔÆæ 1981-2022.
Ellen Keck Stauder
Professor of English and Humanities, Emerita
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Modern poetry, Victorian literature, prosody, literature and the arts.
B.M. 1973 Eastman School of Music.
M.A. 1975 College of St. Rose.
Ph.D. 1982 University of Chicago.
91ÁÔÆæ 1983-2013.
Lisa M. Steinman
Kenan Professor of English and Humanities, Emerita
Email
Modern and contemporary poetry, creative writing, Romanticism, eighteenth-century poetry.
B.A. 1971, M.F.A. 1973, Ph.D. 1976 Cornell University.
91ÁÔÆæ 1976-2022.