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Core Faculty

Mattie Burkert

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  • Affiliation: faculty
  • Title: Associate Professor
  • Additional Title: Director, Minor in Digital Humanities; Interim Director, New Media and Culture Certificate
  • Phone: 541-346-0272
  • Office: 235 PLC
  • Office Hours: Spring 2024: W 10:30am-12:30pm and 1:30-2:30pm (schedule an appointment at https://tinyurl.com/burkert-office-hours)
  • Affiliated Departments: Digital Humanities, Disability Studies
  • Teaching Level: Doctoral, Masters, Undergraduate
  • Interests: Cultural Studies, Digital Humanities, Disability Studies, Drama and Performance Studies, Film Television and Media Studies, Gender Sexuality Queer and Trans Studies, Renaissance/Early Modern Literary Studies, Restoration and 18th Century Literary Studies
  • Research Website: Research
  • Website: Website

Ashley Cordes

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  • Affiliation: faculty
  • Title: Assistant Professor
  • Additional Title: Indigenous Media Studies in ENVS and ENG
  • Phone: 541-346-0061
  • Office: PLC 444
  • Office Hours: Spring Term: TR 8:30-10am
  • Affiliated Departments: Digital Humanities
  • Teaching Level: Doctoral, Masters, Undergraduate
  • Interests: Media, Indigenous Science and Technology Studies (AI, blockchain, cryptocurrency), Digital Humanities, Environmental/Place-Based Studies, Visual Culture, Critical/Cultural Studies
  • Research Website: Research

Tara Fickle

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  • Affiliation: faculty
  • Title: Associate Professor, English Department
  • Phone: 541-346-3979
  • Office: 372 PLC
  • Office Hours: Not teaching in ENG department Spring term
  • Affiliated Departments: Asian Studies, Comics and Cartoon Studies, IRES, Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies
  • Teaching Level: Doctoral, Masters, Undergraduate
  • Interests: Asian American Literaray and Cultural Studies, American Studies, Comics and Cartoon Studies, Cultural Studies, Digital Humanies, Film, Television and Media Studies, Literary and Critical Theory, Race, Ethnicity and Indigeneity, Visual Culture
  • Website: Website

Emily Simnitt

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  • Affiliation: faculty
  • Title: Senior Instructor
  • Additional Title: Interim Director Compositon Program; Director, WSCR Minor
  • Phone: 541-346-3517
  • Office: 301E Tykeson Hall
  • Office Hours: Spring Term: In person T 3-4pm, W 11am-12pm; Zoom F 3-4pm
  • Affiliated Departments: Digital Humanities
  • Interests: digital rhetoric, civic engagement, first year writing
  • Website: Website

Helen Southworth

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  • Affiliation: faculty
  • Title: Professor
  • Phone: 541-346-3940
  • Office: 275 PLC
  • Office Hours: Not teaching Spring 2024
  • Affiliated Departments: Digital Humanities
  • Teaching Level: Doctoral, Masters, Undergraduate
  • Interests: Autobiography Studies, Digital Humanities, Comics and Cartoon Studies, Cultural Studies, Gender, Sexuality, Queer, and Trans Studies, The Novel, Visual Culture, Modernism Studies
  • Website: Website

Kate Thornhill

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  • Affiliation: faculty
  • Title: Associate Librarian
  • Additional Title: Digital Scholarship Librarian
  • Phone: 541-346-3714
  • Office: 142 Knight Library
  • City: Eugene
  • Office Hours: By Appointment
  • Affiliated Departments: Digital Humanities
  • Teaching Level: Masters, Undergraduate
  • Interests: Open Data, Open Scholarship, Digital Humanities, Public Scholarship, Oral History, Archives
  • Research Website: Research
  • Website: Website