Faculty

GERMAN AND SCANDINAVIAN, FOLKLORE — How does an oral Yiddish folk story become what is perhaps the most famous of all modern Jewish literary fantasies? Associate Professor of Scandinavian Gantt Gurley's research on this very question about the legend of golem is illuminating.

THEATRE ARTS — Mary Jungels Goodyear, MFA ’05, may be a new theatre arts professor in the College of Arts and Sciences, but her skills and interests go well beyond her role in teaching scenic design.

CINEMA STUDIES — Associate professor Masami Kawai is making her first feature film, "Valley of the Tall Grass." It is both a personal journey and a community-centered story that expands the landscape of Indigenous filmmaking and invites audiences to consider the stories, people and objects we too often overlook. She's using Eugene, Oregon, as the backdrop.

RELIGIOUS STUDIES — Lily Vuong is the newest member of the Department of Religious Studies. Her work examines Christian apocryphal literature — a vast collection of popular writings that feature tales about Jesus, his family, and immediate followers — through feminist, literary, and historical lenses to explore gender and identity in the Greco-Roman world.