School of Global Studies and Languages

Doris Payne

Professor Emerita
African Studies, Arabic Studies, Linguistics
Phone: 541-346-3894
Office: 271 Straub Hall
Office Hours: By appointment only, please email to set up appt.

Eleanor Paynter

Assistant Professor
Italian, Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages
Office: Friendly Hall 105A
Office Hours: Wednesdays, 11:30-1:30
Research Interests: transnational Italy, media and politics of migration, asylum and migrant rights, race in Europe, social movements, and testimony via critical refugee studies, media studies, ethnography, and oral history

Marina Peñalosa Montero

Graduate Employee, Spanish, PhD Candidate
Latin American Studies, Romance Languages, Spanish
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)

Gerardo Pisacane

Graduate Employee, Italian, PhD
Italian, Romance Languages
Phone: 865-232-9328
Office: Friendly 30
Office Hours: Monday, 12 -13 (FREE TUTORING, Mckenzie 175) or by appointment
Research Interests: Teaching Italian and Pedagogy. Cinema and Television Studies, Gender and Sexuality, Queer Studies

Helmut Plant

Associate Professor Emeritus
German & Scandinavian, SAIL
Phone: 541-344-0748
Office Hours: by appointment

Géraldine Poizat-Newcomb

Senior Instructor II of French
French, Romance Languages
Phone: 541-346-4049
Office: 25 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: MW 12-12:50

Lauren Polak

Graduate Employee
East Asian Languages

Lauren Ponisio

Assistant Professor
Biology, Environmental Studies, Food Studies
Office: 386 Onyx Bridge

Kylie Yihua Post

Assistant Director, Chinese Flagship Program
East Asian Languages
Phone: 541-346-5068
Office: 110 Gerlinger Hall

Amanda Powell

Senior Lecturer II Emerita of Spanish
Poet & translator
Romance Languages, Spanish
Phone: 541-346-0953
Research Interests: Early modern Hispanic women writers: secular & religious, literary translation studies (theory & practice), queer theory, creative writing, our next conversation in class!

Jenifer Presto

Associate Professor of Comparative Literature
Comparative Literature, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies
Phone: 541-485-7400
Office: 346 PLC
Office Hours: Fall 2024: Mon. & Fri. 10:50-11:50 a.m. or by appt.
Research Interests: Russian modernism; gender studies; environmental criticism; visual culture; digital humanities; Russian-Italian cultural interactions; and Russian-American culture

Gina Psaki

Professor Emerita of Italian
Professor, Romance Languages
Comparative Literature, Medieval Studies, Romance Languages
Phone: 541-346-4042
Office: 224 Friendly Hall
Research Interests: Italian and French literature of the Middle Ages; comparative medieval literature; medieval lyric and romance; Dante; Boccaccio; translation; medieval feminist scholarship; discourse analysis; metadisciplinary issues in medieval literary study; history of