School of Global Studies and Languages
Doris Payne
Professor Emerita
African Studies, Arabic Studies, Linguistics
Email: dlpayne@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3894
Office: 271 Straub Hall
Office Hours: By appointment only, please email to set up appt.
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)
Gerardo Pisacane
Graduate Employee, Italian, PhD
Italian, Romance Languages
Email: gpisaca2@uoregon.edu
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
Email: hplant@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-344-0748
Office Hours: by appointment
Géraldine Poizat-Newcomb
Senior Instructor II of French
French, Romance Languages
Email: gpoizat@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4049
Office: 25 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: MW 12-12:50
Lauren Ponisio
Assistant Professor
Biology, Environmental Studies, Food Studies
Email: lponisio@uoregon.edu
Kylie Yihua Post
Assistant Director, Chinese Flagship Program
East Asian Languages
Email: kpost@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-632-2173
Office: 427 Friendly Hall
Amanda Powell
Senior Lecturer II Emerita of Spanish
Poet & translator
Romance Languages, Spanish
Email: apowell@uoregon.edu
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
Email: presto@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-485-7400
Office: 346 PLC
Office Hours: Summer 2024: By appointment on Zoom
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
Email: rpsaki@uoregon.edu
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