Faculty and Staff

Lyell Asher

Associate Professor of English
Renaissance English Literature, Shakespeare
Miller 426
503-768-7411
Office Hours:

Fall 2024: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 11:30-1 and by appointment.

Phillip Barron

Post-Doctoral Fellow
John R. Howard Hall 229
503-768-7469
Office Hours:

Fall 2024: Wednesdays and Fridays 11:30am-1pm

Rachel Cole

Associate Professor of English
American Literature
Miller 413
503-768-7408
Office Hours:

Fall 2024: Tuesdays & Thursdays 3-5pm & by appointment.

Hannah Crummé

Head of Watzek Library Special Collections and College Archivist
English Renaissance, History of the Book
Watzek Library 336
(503) 768-7259
Office Hours:

Fall 2024: Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays 1:50-3, or by appointment.

Kurt Fosso

Professor of English
British Romanticism, Literary Theory, Animal Studies
Miller 428
503-768-7415
Office Hours:

Fall 2024: Leading the England Abroad Program; returning Spring 2025 semester.

Kristin Fujie

Associate Professor of English and Department Chair
20th-century American Literature
Miller 411
503-768-7353
Office Hours:

Fall 2024: Tuesdays 10-12 & Thursdays 12-2 (Google calendar sign-up required). Drop-in hours are Tuesdays 12-1 or by emailing to arrange.

Karen Gross

Professor of English
Medieval Literature, History of the Book
Miller 408
503-768-7406
Office Hours:

Fall 2024: Tuesdays 12-3 and 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 417
503-768-7747
Office Hours:

Fall 2024: Tuesdays 1-3 & by appointment.

Andrea Hibbard

Assistant Professor with Term of English
Victorian Literature and Culture, Law and Literature, Adventure Narratives, Gender Studies
Miller 422
503-768-7776
Office Hours:

Fall 2024: Fridays, 1:00-2:00 and by appointment.

Michael Mirabile

Assistant Professor with Term
Film Studies, Post-World War II American Literature
Miller 433
503-768-7137
Office Hours:

Fall 2024: Wednesdays 3-4:30, Thursdays 11:30-12:30, or by appointment. 

Will Pritchard

Associate Professor of English
17th/18th Century British Literature
Miller 412
503-768-7412
Office Hours:

Fall 2024: Mondays 3-4:30, Tuesdays 3-5, & Thursdays 12-2 by appointment only.

 

Mary Szybist

Morgan S. Odell Professor of Humanities
Poetry Writing
Miller 429
503-768-7414
Office Hours:

Fall 2024: Returning Spring 2025.

Pauls Toutonghi

Professor of English
Fiction and Creative Nonfiction Writing
Miller 425
503-768-7404
Office Hours:

Fall 2024: Available by appointment over Zoom.

Don Waters

Visiting Professor and Director, Fir Acres Writing Workshop
Fiction and Creative Nonfiction Writing
Miller 405
503-768-7262
Office Hours:

Fall 2024: Tuesdays 11:15-12:15, Thursdays 9-9:30, or by appointment.

Rishona Zimring

Professor of English, Director of Gender Studies
British and Irish Modernism, Postcolonial Literature, Literature and Visual/Performing Arts
Miller 423
503-768-7409
Office Hours:

Fall 2024: Tuesdays and Thursdays 1-2, and by appointment.

Staff

Amy Baskin

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