CAS Humanities Faculty
Erin McKenna
Professor of Philosophy
Director of Undergraduate Studies/Curriculum Committee/GTF Appointment Committee/
Philosophy
Email: emckenna@uoregon.edu
Office: 237 Susan Campbell Hall, 1295 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1295
Office Hours: Tuesday 1:30- 3:30
Research Interests: Animal Ethics, Feminist Theory, American Pragmatism, Ecofeminism
Eric Mentzel
Professor of Voice
Medieval Studies, Music
Email: mentzel@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3780
Office: 260 Frohnmayer Music Bldg, 1225 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1225
Research Interests: Music Performance, Vocal Performance and Choral Studies, Early Music/Historical Performance Practice
Leah Middlebrook
Professor of Comparative Literature and Spanish
Director, Oregon Humanities Center (OHC)
Comparative Literature, Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish
Email: middlebr@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3103
Office: 355 PLC Hall
Office Hours: F 2025 Thursdays 11 a.m.-noon, or by appt.
Research Interests: poetry and poetics; comparative modernities; critical race studies; early modern literature and culture of Spain, the Spanish Americas, France and Great Britain
Lanie Millar
Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese
African Studies, Black Studies, Comparative Literature, IRES, Portuguese, Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish, College of Arts and Sciences
Email: lmillar@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4031
Office Hours: Fall, 2025: By appointment. Please email.
Research Interests: 20th-21st Century Caribbean Literature, Latin American Literature, African Literature, Lusophone Literatures, Global South Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Race and Blackness, Critical Theory
Quinn Miller
Associate Professor
Digital Humanities, English
Email: qmmiller@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3978
Office: 447 PLC, 1286 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286
Office Hours: by appointment
Fabienne Moore
Associate Professor of French
Director of Graduate Studies, Romance Languages
French, Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages, College of Arts and Sciences
Email: fmoore@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4032
Office: 324 Friendly Hall, 1233 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1233
Office Hours: Fall 2025: Weds 9-11 am and by appoint. Call 541-346-4032 to get in UO Annex 118
Research Interests: Early European romanticism; Chateaubriand; European Enlightenment; French & Haitian Revolutions; French and Francophone cultural and literary history; prose poetry; bande dessinées & graphic narratives; blue humanities
Lee Moore
Adjunct Professor
East Asian Languages
Email: lmoore@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1766
Office: 427 Friendly Hall, University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Research Interests: Modern Chinese Literature, Museology, Identity
Nicolae Morar
Associate Professor of Environmental Studies and Philosophy
Environmental Studies, Philosophy
Email: nmorar@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5547
Office: 250B Susan Campbell Hall, 1295 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1205
Office Hours: TH 10:00-11:00 am and by appointment (primarily on Zoom, in person only on demand). Please book your time slot here: https://calendly.com/nmorar-uoregon
Research Interests: Applied Ethics, Philosophy of Biology, 20th Continental Philosophy
Barbara Muraca
Associate Professor of Philosophy and Environmental Studies
Environmental Studies, Philosophy
Email: bmuraca@uoregon.edu
Office: 242 Susan Campbell Hall, 1295 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1295
Office Hours: Fall 2025: Wednesday 4:00-6pm in person and on Zoom upon request (ask for Zoom link). Additional meetings (upon appointment) for graduate students
Research Interests: Environmental Philosophy, Process Philosophy (Whitehead), Sustainability, degrowth, human-nature relationships, Biocapitalism
Mikhail Myagkov
Professor
Political Science, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies
Email: myagkov@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4868
Office: 931 PLC, 1284 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1284
Research Interests: Russian Politics, Comparative Politics, Formal Political Theory, Statistical Methods, Experimental Design, Game Theory
Michael Malek Najjar
Professor, Theater Arts
Theatre Arts
Email: mnajjar@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-2237
Office: 11A Mac Court, 1231 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Office Hours: On sabbatical Fall 2025
Research Interests: Contemporary Arab-American and Middle Eastern-American Theatre and Performance, Contemporary Theatre, Ethnic Studies, Critical Race Theory, Arab-American Studies.
Naoko Nakadate
Senior Instructor II, Japanese Language
East Asian Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: naoko@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0047
Office: 410 Friendly Hall, 1248 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1205
Office Hours: M 9:30-10:30 & 12:30-1:30, T 1:30-2:30 or by appointment
Jacob P. Neal
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Philosophy
Email: jpneal@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: Spring 2025: Monday 3:30-4:30PM, Wednesday 12:45-1:45PM, or by appointment
Research Interests: History & Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Molecular Biology
Yoko O'Brien
Senior Instructor II, Japanese Language
East Asian Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: yobrien@uoregon.edu
Office: 116 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: MW 2:30-4:00
HyeRyoung Ok
Instructor
Digital Humanities, Cinema Studies
Email: hok@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-7644
Office: 245 PLC, 6223 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Office Hours: Spring 24: Tuesdays 11-1pm
Dorothee Ostmeier
Professor of German, and Folklore and Public Culture
Folklore Program, German & Scandinavian, School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: ostmeier@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4145
Office: 204D Agate Hall, 1250 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1205
Office Hours: Tue/Thu 1:20 to 2 PM GSH 103 Afterwards Villard until 3:30 PM and by appointment
Research Interests: German literature and culture of the 18th through 20th century
Priscilla Peña Ovalle
Associate Professor
Comics and Cartoon Studies, IRES, Cinema Studies
Email: povalle@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0060
Office: 315 McKenzie Hall, 6223 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Office Hours: By Appointment
Research Interests: Media Studies, Race/Ethnicity, Dance, Mainstream Popular Culture, Media Hairstyles
Tom Payne
Research Associate
Linguistics
Email: tpayne@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Typological morphology and syntax. Mother-tongue based multi-lingual education. Philippine languages and Manchu languages.
Eleanor Paynter
Assistant Professor
Italian, Migration, and Global Media Studies
School of Global Studies and Languages, Romance Languages, Italian
Email: epaynter@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: Tuesdays, 11:30-1:30
Research Interests: media and politics of migration, asylum and migrant rights, Africa-Europe migration, transnational Italy, race in Europe, comparative border studies, social movements, human rights, and testimony via critical refugee studies, media studies, ethnography, and oral history.
Gabriela Pérez Báez
Associate Professor
Linguistics, Language Teaching Studies
Email: gperezb4@uoregon.edu
Office: 263 Straub Hall, 1290 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1290
Office Hours: Thursdays 10am - 12pm (or by appointment)<br />
Please sign up for a time slot here: https://tinyurl.com/5n77s5dw
Research Interests: Linguistic diversity, multi/plurilingualism, linguistic rights, Indigenous languages, language revitalization