Global Studies and Languages Graduate employee

Alejandro Acero Ayuda

Graduate Employee, Spanish, PhD
Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program
Phone: 541-346-4021
Office: 192K Esslinger
Office Hours: Hours: Mondays & Wednesdays 9:00-10:00am / Tuesdays & Thursdays 12:00-1:00pm or by appointment
Research Interests: Sociolinguistics, Heritage Speakers, Second Language Acquisition, Bilingualism, Technology and Education, Endangered Languages and Language Revitalization (Ladino)

Sarah Agou

Graduate Employee, RL
French, Italian, Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish
Office: Esslinger 192E
Office Hours: Tuesday and Thursday, 11:00-12:00, and by appointment
Research Interests: Indigenous Literature, Caribbean Literature, Feminist Theory, Women's Writing, Decolonial Studies

Mahnoor Ahmed

Graduate Employee
Global Studies, School of Global Studies and Languages
Phone: 5412326787
Office: Friendly 30
Office Hours: Thursdays, 2pm-3pm
Research Interests: Sustainable and Participatory Development

Obafemi Akintayo

Mr
African Studies, School of Global Studies and Languages
Phone: 3016734482
Office: Desk 1, Room 30, Friendly Hall.
Office Hours: Fridays, 11:00-1:00
Research Interests: African Politics,Conflict Management and Sensitivity Analyses,Military coup, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Gender and Peacebuidling, Anthropology,

Serena Archila

Graduate Employee
Global Studies, School of Global Studies and Languages

OYEINTARIMOBOERE AZEBI

MISS
Global Studies, School of Global Studies and Languages
Office: 030 FRIENDLY
Office Hours: TUESDAYS 1PM - 2PM

Omar Barahona Barahona

Graduate Employee, PhD Student
Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish
Office: Friendly 27
Office Hours: Wed 2:00-4:00 PM or by appointment

Magela Baudoin Teran

Graduate Employee, Spanish, PhD Candidate
Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages
Phone: 541-852-5628
Office: 192K Esslinger Hall
Research Interests: Latin American literature from the mid-20th to the 21st centuries, Writing as Creative Laboratories, Aesthetic and Political Performances, Auto-fiction in Modern Literature, Women and Gender Studies, Decolonial Studies.

Gabriel José Carrión Pérez

Graduate Employee
Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish
Phone: 4582619476
Office: Friendly Hall 27
Research Interests: Literary Theory, South American Poetry, Ecocritics

Ai-Ting Chung

Japanese GE
East Asian Languages
Phone: 541-346-4656
Office: UO Annex, Ste 3
Research Interests: Visual cultural studies, cinema, anime

Alex Colombo

PhD Student
Graduate Employee
German & Scandinavian, School of Global Studies and Languages
Office: 16 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Wed. 1-3PM, or by appointment
Research Interests: Feminist Theories & Philosophy, Holocaust Studies, Fascism Studies, Gender, Sexuality, Queer & Trans Studies, Feminist Epistemology, Political Philosophy, Decolonial Philosophy, Critical Theory

Zahra Dehnavi

Graduate Employee
Global Studies, School of Global Studies and Languages
Office: 30 Friendly hall
Office Hours: Mondays & Wednesdays 2:30-3:30
Research Interests: Global health, Mental health, Disease prevention , Psychiatry, Depression & Anxiety

Xiaoyan Deng

PhD candidate
East Asian Languages
Office: Friendly 27
Office Hours: Tuesdays 11am-12pm
Research Interests: Modern Chinese theatre and literature, Chinese film

Chanda Diekotto

Global Studies GE, Masters of Nonprofit Management Student
Global Studies, PPPM
Phone: 541-346-9780
Office: Global Studies
Office Hours: Mondays 10-11 a.m.
Research Interests: Languages, Outdoors, Management, Social and Environmental Justice, Human Rights

Henry Els

Graduate Employee
German & Scandinavian, School of Global Studies and Languages
Phone: 503-312-7691
Office: Friendly 30 #13
Office Hours: Mon/Thur: 12:00–1:00pm

Giacomo Frazzetta

Graduate Employee
Romance Languages
Phone: (541) 5790627
Office: 30 Friendly Hall
Research Interests: Comparative Literature, Cinema Studies, Romanticism, Modernism, Postmodernism, Italy's South, Mafia Films

Teppei Fukuda

Graduate Student (doctoral)
East Asian Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages
Phone: 541-346-4084
Office: Friendly Hall 114
Research Interests: Japanese aesthetics related to seasons, Japanese poetry, Manga, Japanese Onomatopoeia, Translation

Yuruhary Gallardo García

Graduate student, Spanish PhD
Graduate Employee
Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish
Office: Friendly Hall 27
Research Interests: Latin American Art and Philosophy, Textile Arts, Greek Mythology.

Xiangchen Gu

graduate student
Chinese, East Asian Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages
Office: Friendly Hall 27
Office Hours: 3-4pm, R
Research Interests: Early China

Miguel Antonio Guevara

Graduate Student, Graduate Employee
Ph. D. Student
Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish
Phone: 4582509729
Office: Friendly 27
Office Hours: Friendly 27 in person or Zoom by appointment.
Research Interests: Subjetivity, Latin American Studies, Digital Culture, Decoloniality, Creative Writing, Noise & Music, Hegel

Hana Hana Sasakawa

Graduate Employee
East Asian Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages

Viana Hara

PhD Graduate Candidate , Romance Languages
Spanish Instructor
IRES, Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish, Yamada Language Center
Office: Friendly 106 A
Office Hours: Falll 2024 TBA
Research Interests: Race and Gender Studies, Visual Culture ( postcards, comics), Decoloniaty approaches and Caribbean Narratives .( Panamá, U.S and West Indians Diasporas)

Huiqiong Jiang

East Asian Languages
Office: Friendly Hall 020

Yeojin Jung

PhD student
GE, teaching Korean
East Asian Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages
Office: 305 Friendly Hall
Research Interests: Foreign-accented speech perception, Second language acquisition, Psycho-/neurolinguistics

Nicole Kaminski

Graduate Employee Teaching Assistant
Global Studies
Office: Friendly Hall #3

Filip Kletnikov

PhD Student
Graduate Employee
German & Scandinavian, School of Global Studies and Languages
Office: Friendly Hall 16
Office Hours: By appointment (Location: Yamada Language Center)
Research Interests: Nihilism, Anarchism, Poetry, Expressionism, Decadence, Female Mysticism

Nessie Kurganova

GE Russian Language Instructor
Graduate student
Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, School of Global Studies and Languages
Office: Friendly 30
Office Hours: M 2-3 & T 10-11 or by appt
Research Interests: Language pedagogy, gender discourse

Flora Lam

Graduate Student
East Asian Languages
Office: FR027
Research Interests: second language acquisition, bilingualism, multilingualism

Joonpyo Lee

Graduate Student
East Asian Languages
Office: 30 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: F 2:00 - 2:50
Research Interests: Textual Critique, Early Chinese Historical Wiring, Chinese Classics Studies (經學), Chinese Classics (儒家經傳), Excavated Texts

Tobias Lehmann

PhD Graduate student
Graduate Employee
German & Scandinavian, School of Global Studies and Languages
Phone: 541-346-4051
Office: 016 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Mondays and Wednesdays from 4 to 5 PM via Zoom
Research Interests: Post-Wall Germany, Postwar Literature (esp. Committed Literature), Critical Thought, E. Bloch, Holocaust Studies, F. Nietzsche

Ya-Jo Li

PHD student
East Asian Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages
Phone: 5415143962
Office: Friendly 308
Research Interests: Gender study, Chinese women history (especially Medieval China) and Ming-Qing fictions

Xiaoyu Liu

Ph.D. Candidate
East Asian Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages
Phone: 541-346-4090
Office: 27 Friendly Hall
Research Interests: Chinese Linguistics, Psycholinguistics (eye-tracking, self-paced reading), second language acquisition, bilingualism & Chinese language pedagogy

Gloria Macedo Janto

Graduate Employee, Romance Languages, PhD (Spanish and Quechua)
Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program
Office Hours: Thursday 3 - 4 p.m. or by appointment
Research Interests: Memory and Testimony, Politics and Fiction, Genealogies in Afro and Andean Literatures, Gender Studies, Spanish and Quechua

Cristina Manning

Graduate Employee
Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages

Alejandro Marín

Graduate Employee, RL, PHD
Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish
Office: Friendly Hall 13
Office Hours: Mondays & Wednesdays 11am-12m
Research Interests: Postcolonial & Decolonial studies, Migration studies, narratives from the Hispanophone Caribbean & Equatorial-Guinea.

Nicole Mésange

Graduate Student, French
Graduate Employee, French
French, Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages
Office: 30 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Monday 2PM-3PM, Thursday 11AM-12PM

Steve Morrow

Graduate Employee
East Asian Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages

Barrett Niblock

Graduate student/GE
Global Studies, School of Global Studies and Languages
Office: Friendly 30
Office Hours: Monday/Wednesday 10:00am-11:30am
Research Interests: Development Studies, Indigenous Studies, Language Revitalization, American Studies

Lauren Polak

Graduate Employee
East Asian Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages

Daniel Quintero Plata

PhD Student
German & Scandinavian, School of Global Studies and Languages
Phone: 541-346-4084
Office: 202 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays 12:00 - 1:00 pm

Shan Ren

PhD
East Asian Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages
Phone: 541-346-4656
Office: UO Annex, Ste 3
Research Interests: Early modern Japanese literature

Sanaz Riahi

Ms.
Global Studies, School of Global Studies and Languages
Phone: 4582101194
Office: PLC 316
Office Hours: 12-1.30 pm Thursdays, 9-10.30 Am Fridays
Research Interests: Global mental health, depression, suicide

Kiana Ringuette

Graduate Employee
Global Studies, School of Global Studies and Languages

Amanda Robinson

PhD Student
German & Scandinavian, School of Global Studies and Languages
Phone: 541-346-4051
Office: 310 Friendly Hall

Isabelle Rogers

Graduate Student, MA, Spanish
Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish
Research Interests: translation, Spanish and Latin American theatre, film, ecodrama, ecofeminism, transatlantic studies

Garrett Sebra

Graduate Employee
Global Studies, School of Global Studies and Languages
Office: 30 Friendly Hall
Research Interests: Law, International Law, Business Law, Diplomacy, Immigration, Human Rights, International Development, Europe, Africa

Hunter Spackman

ASIA 399 Graduate Employee
Asian Studies, Global Studies
Office: Friendly Hall 030
Office Hours: Thursdays 11:00am-12:30pm
Research Interests: Japanese Popular Culture

Tim Strikwerda

PhD Student
East Asian Languages
Phone: 541-346-4656
Office: UO Annex, Ste 3
Research Interests: Postwar Japanese literature, film, and cultural history.

Feiya Suo

PhD Student
East Asian Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages
Office: 6 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: 3:00-4:00pm, Thursday
Research Interests: Chinese linguistics

Pablo Torres

Graduate Employee, Spanish, PhD
Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages
Phone: +1 (541) 285-6919
Office: 30 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Tuesdays and Wednesdays 4-5pm @Knight Library 224
Research Interests: Latin American narrative, 20th century, 21st century, existentialism, censorship, cinema, queer studies, memory studies

Alina Turygina

GE Russian Instructor
Graduate student
Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, School of Global Studies and Languages
Phone: +1-(541)-636-88-01
Office: Friendly 30
Office Hours: Mon & Wed 2-3 pm
Research Interests: Russian émigré literature, russophone literature of the 20th-21st centuries, cultural anthropology, myth studies, topos, autobiography/autofiction, Nina Berberova

Salma Valadez-Marquez

Graduate Employee, PhD Candidate
Folklore Program, Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages
Research Interests: Náhuatl foodways, Mexican storytelling traditions and Indigeneity

Katie VanOort

Masters Student and Graduate Employee
French, Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages
Office: Friendly 30
Office Hours: Wednesdays 12-1pm and Thursdays 2:30-3:30pm
Research Interests: French colonization of Canada, early modern epistolary writing, Marie de l'Incarnation, feminism, early modern feminism, indigenous studies

Jeremiah Young

PhD Student
German & Scandinavian, School of Global Studies and Languages
Phone: 541-346-4051
Office: 312 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: M:12-1; T:2-3 or by appointment
Research Interests: Trauma, Old Norse Literature, English and German Romanticism, Narratology, Oral Tradition, Psychoanalysis, German and Scandinavian Modernism Ecocriticism

Leting Zheng

Ph.D. candidate
East Asian Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages
Research Interests: Modern Chinese literature, transnational children's studies, visual culture, gender studies