Faculty and Staff

Lyell Asher

Associate Professor of English
Renaissance English Literature, Shakespeare
Miller
503-768-7411
Office Hours:

Spring 2023: Please email for appointment.

Rachel Cole

Associate Professor of English
American lit, literature and ethics
Miller
503-768-7408
Office Hours:

Spring 2023: Available Tuesdays 4:30-5:30, Thursdays 3:30-5:30, & by appointment. 

Kurt Fosso

Professor of English
British Romanticism, Literary Theory, Animal Studies
Miller
503-768-7415
Office Hours:

2022-2023: On Sabbatical.

Kristin Fujie

Associate Professor of English
20th-century American Literature
Miller
503-768-7353
Office Hours:

Spring 2023: T 1-2, Th 9-10, 2-3, & by appointment.

Karen Gross

Professor of English and Department Chair
Medieval Literature
Miller
503-768-7406
Office Hours:

Spring 2023: Wednesdays 3-5pm & by appointment.

Please sign up via Google Appointment calendar.

Jerry Harp

Associate Professor with Term of the Humanities
Renaissance Literature, Contemporary Poetry, Poetry Writing
Miller
503-768-7747
Office Hours:

Spring 2023: Fridays 2-4 & by appointment. 

Andrea Hibbard

Assistant Professor with Term of English
Victorian Literature and culture, law and literature, adventure narratives, gender studies
Miller
503-768-7776
Office Hours:

Spring 2023: Fridays 2-3 & by appointment. 

Michael Mirabile

Assistant Professor with Term
Film Studies, Post-World War II American Literature
Miller
503-768-7137
Office Hours:

Spring 2023: Available Tuesdays 3-5, Fridays 3-4, & by appointment. 

Will Pritchard

Associate Professor of English
17th/18th Century British Literature
Miller
503-768-7412
Office Hours:

Spring 2023: Available Mondays 3-4, Thursdays 12-2, & by appointment. 

Mary Szybist

Morgan S. Odell Professor of Humanities
Poetry Writing
Miller
503-768-7414
Office Hours:

Spring 2023: Mondays 1-3 & by appointment.

Pauls Toutonghi

Associate Professor of English
Fiction and Creative Nonfiction Writing
Miller
503-768-7404
Office Hours:

2022-2023: On sabbatical.

Don Waters

Visiting Professor and Director, Fir Acres Writing Workshop
Fiction and Creative Nonfiction Writing
Miller
503-768-7262
Office Hours:

Spring 2023: Available Tuesdays 11-11:30 & by appointment.

Rishona Zimring

Professor of English, Director of Gender Studies
British and Irish modernism, postcolonial literature, literature and visual/performing arts
Miller
503-768-7409
Office Hours:

Spring 2023: Mondays 10:15-11:15, Tuesdays 3:30-5, & by appointment. 

Staff

Amy Baskin

Administrative Coordinator, English/History/Fir Acres Summer Writing Workshop
503-768-7405

Faculty Emeriti

John Callahan
Morgan S. Odell Professor Emeritus of Humanities

Michaela Paasche Grudin
Professor Emerita of English

Jack Hart
Professor Emeritus of English

Susan Kirschner
Senior Lecturer Emerita of Humanities

In Memoriam

Dorothy Berkson
Professor Emerita of English

Steve Knox
Professor Emeritus of English

Vern Rutsala

Professor Emeritus of English