CAS Humanities Faculty

John Gage

Professor Emeritus
English
Office Hours: By appointment

Cassandra Galentine

Assistant Teaching Professor
English
Phone: 541-346-1496
Office: 266 PLC
Office Hours: Winter 2026: T/Tr 10-11:30am and by appointment
Research Interests: Women's Working-Class Literature, Multiethnic U.S. Literature, Environmental Justice, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies

Pedro García-Caro

Professor of Spanish
Senator
Romance Languages, Spanish, Translation Studies, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages, Latinx
Phone: 541-346-5813
Office: 110 UO Annex
Office Hours: By appointment. Zoom or Teams
Research Interests: I welcome honors and graduate students pursuing research on the cultural histories of empire, nation, and environmental change; U.S. Hispanic, Mexican, and transatlantic literatures; border cultures; comparative American studies; satire and performance; translation; and the politics of knowledge and academic freedom.

Diana Garvin

Assistant Professor of Italian, Mediterranean Studies
Food Studies, Italian, Romance Languages, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages
Phone: 541-346-6984
Office: Agate Hall 222B
Office Hours: Tuesdays 11:30–1:30pm
Research Interests: Transnational Italian Studies (East Africa, Brazil), Fascism and Neo-Fascism, Food Studies, Environmental Humanities, Medical Humanities

Denise Gigliotti

Teaching Professor, Chinese Language
East Asian Languages, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages
Phone: 541-346-3552
Office: 220 UO Annex
Office Hours: M/T/Th 12:00-12:20PM and 3:00-3:30PM
Research Interests: Chinese language pedagogy, Chinese language, literature, media, danmei/BL, foreign languages

Spike Gildea

Professor
Linguistics
Phone: 541-346-3906
Office: 381 Straub Hall, 1290 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1290
Office Hours: Fall Term 2026: Wednesdays and Fridays, 2:00-3:00
Research Interests: Amazonian Languages, Language Documentation, Language Revitalization, Linguistic Typology, Historical Syntax, Werikyana (Cariban)

Amalia Gladhart

Professor Emerita
Spanish, College of Arts and Sciences, Romance Languages, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages
Phone: 541-346-4021
Research Interests: Translation Studies (theory and practice), Latin American theater, literary translation

Mary Jungels Goodyear

Associate Teaching Professor
Theatre Arts
Office: 222 Villard Hall, 1231 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1205
Research Interests: Theatrical Scene Design, Scenic Artistry, Painted Backings, Murals, Fine Art, Watercolor Illustration, Graphic Design, Mid-Century Modern Design and Architecture, Astronomy, Guitar.

Sangita Gopal

Professor
Comparative Literature, Cinema Studies
Phone: 541-346-5524
Office: 332 Villard Hall, 6223 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Research Interests: Postcolonial Theory and Literature, South Asian Visual and Cultural Studies

Fernando Gorab Leme

Assistant Professor of Classics
Classics, Medieval Studies
Office Hours: By appointment
Research Interests: Ancient poetics, performance studies, gender, epideictic rhetoric, reception studies

Devin Grammon

Associate Professor of Spanish Sociolinguistics
Romance Languages, Spanish, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages
Phone: 541-346-4070
Office: PLC 271, 1233 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Office Hours: By Appointment
Research Interests: Sociocultural Linguistics, Second Language Studies, Linguistic Ethnography, Language Contact, Quechua and Andean Spanish, Linguistic Landscapes

Deborah Green

Greenberg Associate Professor, Hebrew Language & Literature
Humanities Program, Middle East and North African Studies, Medieval Studies, Religious Studies
Phone: 541-346-5974
Office: 352 Susan Campbell Hall, 1267 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1267
Office Hours: TBA

Alison Groppe

Associate Professor, Chinese Literature
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Asian Studies, East Asian Languages, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages
Phone: 541-346-7015
Office: Remote during Friendly Hall renovations
Office Hours: Fall 2026: Mondays 11am-12pm, Wednesdays 10am-11am, and by appointment.

Miguel Gualdrón Ramírez

Assistant Professor
Director of Graduate Studies
Philosophy
Office Hours: Fall 2026: Tuesdays 10:00am-12:00pm, by appointment
Research Interests: Latin American and Caribbean Philosophy (Social and Political), Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art, 18th and 19th century German Philosophy (esp. Hegel and Nietzsche), 20th century Continental Philosophy

Gantt Gurley

Associate Professor
Faculty Fellow, CHC
Clark Honors College, Folklore Program, German & Scandinavian, Judaic Studies Program, Medieval Studies, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages
Phone: 541-346-4055
Office: Agate 217
Office Hours: Fall 2026: MW 1:45–3:45 Zoom Room: https://uoregon.zoom.us/j/8083501600
Research Interests: Ancient and medieval song culture, Indo-Iranian philology, historical linguistics, contemporary Israeli art, minority Jewish communities, the birth of the Jewish novel, history of antisemitism, Jewish narrative and legend, Tel-Aviv school of narratology, 19th century literature, the Wandering Jew, comparative mythology and theory of myth, Long Romanticism, Old Norse literature, the lyrical mode, Hans Christian Andersen, Franz Kafka, and notions of religiosity in the Danish Golden Age.