Global Studies and Languages Graduate employee
Alejandro Acero Ayuda
Graduate Employee, Spanish, PhD
Romance Languages, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program
Email: aaceroay@uoregon.edu
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, Spanish
Email: sagou@uoregon.edu
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
Ms.
Global Studies
Email: mahnoor@uoregon.edu
Phone: 5412326787
Office: Friendly 30
Research Interests: Sustainable Urben Development, International Development
Obafemi Akintayo
Mr
African Studies
Email: obak@uoregon.edu
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,
Omar Barahona Barahona
Graduate Employee, PhD Student
Romance Languages, Spanish
Email: obarahon@uoregon.edu
Office: Friendly 27
Office Hours: Wed 2:00-4:00 PM or by appointment
Magela Baudoin Teran
Graduate Employee, Spanish, PhD Candidate
Romance Languages
Email: mbaudoin@uoregon.edu
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, Spanish
Email: gcarrion@uoregon.edu
Phone: 4582619476
Office: Friendly Hall 27
Research Interests: Literary Theory, South American Poetry, Ecocritics
Ai-Ting Chung
Japanese GE
East Asian Languages
Email: aitingc@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4656
Office: UO Annex, Ste 3
Research Interests: Visual cultural studies, cinema, anime
Alex Colombo
PhD Student
Graduate Employee
German & Scandinavian
Email: acolombo@uoregon.edu
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
Arezou Darvishi
Graduate Employee, French
French, Romance Languages
Email: arezoud@uoregon.edu
Office: spring24: Friendly Hall 30
Office Hours: Mondays 10-12 or by appointment
Research Interests: Data Feminism, Body Shaming, French Feminism, Feminism in Middle-East, Intersectionality, Women's Writing, Gendered Language, Women & Migration in Post-colonialism
Xiaoyan Deng
PhD candidate
East Asian Languages
Email: xiaoyand@uoregon.edu
Office: Friendly 27
Office Hours: Tuesdays 11am-12pm
Research Interests: Modern Chinese theatre and literature, Chinese film
Giacomo Frazzetta
Graduate Employee
Romance Languages
Email: giacomof@uoregon.edu
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
Email: tfukuda@uoregon.edu
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, Spanish
Email: yuruhary@uoregon.edu
Office: Friendly Hall 27
Research Interests: Latin American Art and Philosophy, Textile Arts, Greek Mythology.
Miguel Antonio Guevara
Graduate Student, Graduate Employee
Ph. D. Student
Romance Languages, Spanish
Email: miguelan@uoregon.edu
Phone: 4582509729
Office: Friendly 27
Office Hours: Tuesdays 10am, Friendly 27 in person or on Zoom by appointment.
Research Interests: Subjetivity, Latin American Studies, Digital Culture, Decoloniality, Creative Writing, Noise & Music, Hegel
Viana Hara
PhD Graduate Candidate , Romance Languages
Spanish Instructor
IRES, Romance Languages, Spanish, Yamada Language Center
Email: vhara@uoregon.edu
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)
Angélica Hernández Viera
Graduate Employee, Spanish Ph.D. Student
Romance Languages
Phone: 541-346-9780
Office: Friendly Hall #27
Office Hours: Mondays 2:00-3:00 pm MCK 175D and 4:00-5:00 pm via zoom
Research Interests: Spanish Sociolinguistics, Heritage Spanish Students, Bilingual and Dual Language Education, History of the Spanish Language, México-US border linguistic studies, Latin American Literature, Immigration, Women's Studies
Yeojin Jung
PhD student
GE, teaching Korean
East Asian Languages
Email: yeojinj@uoregon.edu
Office: 305 Friendly Hall
Research Interests: Foreign-accented speech perception, Second language acquisition, Psycho-/neurolinguistics
Filip Kletnikov
PhD Student
Graduate Employee
German & Scandinavian
Email: filipk@uoregon.edu
Office: Friendly Hall 16
Office Hours: Spring Term 2024: by appointment (Location: Yamada Language Center, MCK 175)
Research Interests: Nihilism, Anarchism, Poetry, Expressionism, Decadence, Female Mysticism
Nessie Kurganova
GE Russian Language Instructor
Graduate student
Russian East European and Eurasian Studies
Email: nessiek@uoregon.edu
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
Email: floral@uoregon.edu
Office: FR027
Research Interests: second language acquisition, bilingualism, multilingualism
Joonpyo Lee
Graduate Student
East Asian Languages
Email: jlee37@uoregon.edu
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
Email: tlehmann@uoregon.edu
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
Email: yachiaol@uoregon.edu
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
Email: xliu12@uoregon.edu
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, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program, Translation Studies
Email: gmacedo@uoregon.edu
Office: 13 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Tuesday 10 a.m - 12 p.m.
Research Interests: Memory and Testimony, Politics and Fiction, Genealogies in Afro and Andean Literatures, Gender Studies, Spanish and Quechua
Alejandro Marín
Graduate Employee, RL, PHD
Romance Languages, Spanish
Email: amarin5@uoregon.edu
Office: Friendly Hall 13
Office Hours: Mondays & Wednesdays 11am-12m
Research Interests: Postcolonial & Decolonial studies, Migration studies, narratives from the Hispanophone Caribbean & Equatorial-Guinea.
Joel Matheson
GE
Global Studies
Email: jmathes2@uoregon.edu
Office: Friendly 30
Research Interests: Agriculture Development, Food Studies, Nonprofit Management, Social Movements, Agroecology, Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH), Diplomacy
Barrett Niblock
Graduate student/GE
Global Studies
Email: bniblock@uoregon.edu
Office: Friendly 30
Office Hours: Monday/Wednesday 10:00am-11:30am
Research Interests: Development Studies, Indigenous Studies, Language Revitalization, American Studies
Alex O'Ryan
Graduate Employee, Spanish, MA
Romance Languages
Email: aoryan@uoregon.edu
Office: 30 Friendly Hall
Research Interests: Second Language Pedagogy, Linguistics, Sociolinguistics
Marina Peñalosa Montero
Graduate Employee, Spanish, PhD Candidate
Latin American Studies, Romance Languages, Spanish
Email: mpenalos@uoregon.edu
Office: 192F Esslinger Hall
Office Hours: M/T 11-noon and By appt (Zoom)
Research Interests: Comparative Literature, Latin-American Literature, Jorge Luis Borges, Borges essays, Philosophical Concepts in Literature, Auto-fiction in Modern Literature (20th and 21th century)
Daniel Quintero Plata
PhD Student
German & Scandinavian
Email: danielq@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4084
Office: 202 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Sanaz Riahi
Ms.
Global Studies
Email: sriahi2@uoregon.edu
Phone: 4582101194
Office: PLC 316
Office Hours: 12-1.30 pm Thursdays, 9-10.30 Am Fridays
Research Interests: Global mental health, depression, suicide
Amanda Robinson
PhD Student
German & Scandinavian
Email: arobinso@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4051
Office: 310 Friendly Hall
Isabelle Rogers
Graduate Student, MA, Spanish
Romance Languages, Spanish
Email: irogers@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: translation, Spanish and Latin American theatre, film, ecodrama, ecofeminism, transatlantic studies
Garrett Sebra
Graduate Employee
Global Studies
Email: gsebra@uoregon.edu
Office: 30 Friendly Hall
Research Interests: Law, International Law, Business Law, Diplomacy, Immigration, Human Rights, International Development, Europe, Africa
Nereida Solórzano
Graduate Student MA Spanish
Language Teaching Studies
Linguistics, Romance Languages, Spanish
Email: nereidas@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Bilingual education, Transborder students, Spanish, Heritage language instruction,
Tim Strikwerda
PhD Student
East Asian Languages
Email: tstrikwe@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4656
Office: UO Annex, Ste 3
Research Interests: Postwar Japanese literature, film, and cultural history.
Elyse St Sauver
Graduate Employee
African Studies, Economics
Email: jstsauv2@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1664
Office: Friendly 30
Office Hours: Thursdays 1:30-3:30
Feiya Suo
PhD Student
East Asian Languages
Email: suo@uoregon.edu
Office: 6 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: 3:00-4:00pm, Thursday
Research Interests: Chinese linguistics
Pablo Torres
Graduate Employee, Spanish, PhD
Romance Languages
Email: pablos@uoregon.edu
Phone: +1 (541) 285-6919
Office: 30 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Monday 8:00am-9:00am, Friday 9:00am-10:00am
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
Email: alint@uoregon.edu
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
Email: svaladez@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Náhuatl foodways, Mexican storytelling traditions and Indigeneity
Katie VanOort
Masters Student and Graduate Employee
French, Romance Languages
Email: kava@uoregon.edu
Office: Friendly 30
Office Hours: Tuesdays 11:30 am - 12:30 pm and Fridays 10:00-11:00 am
Research Interests: French Feminism, Second Language Acquisition, Effect of Musical/Ear Training on Language Learning
Jeremiah Young
PhD Student
German & Scandinavian
Email: jyoung7@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4051
Office: 312 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: M:10-11; T:12-1 or by appointment
Research Interests: Trauma, Old Norse Literature, Romanticism, Narratology, Oral Tradition, Psychoanalysis, Ecocriticism
Leting Zheng
Ph.D. candidate
East Asian Languages
Email: letingz@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Modern Chinese literature, transnational children's studies, visual culture, gender studies