Schnitzer 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, 1290 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1290
Office Hours: By appointment only, please email to set up appt.
Eleanor Paynter
Assistant Professor
Romance Languages
Email: epaynter@uoregon.edu
Office: Friendly Hall 105A
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, 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
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)
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, School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: gpoizat@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4049
Office: 25 Friendly Hall, 1233 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1233
Office Hours: MW 11-11:50
Lauren Polak
Graduate Employee
East Asian Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: lpolak@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: indexicality, role language, language ideology, media depictions of language, linguistic perception
Lauren Ponisio
Associate Professor
Biology, Environmental Studies, Food Studies
Email: lponisio@uoregon.edu
Office: 386 Onyx Bridge
Kylie Yihua Post
Assistant Director, Chinese Flagship Program
East Asian Languages
Email: kpost@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5068
Office: 110 Gerlinger 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, Digital Humanities, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, Clark Honors College
Email: presto@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-485-7400
Office: 346 PLC
Office Hours: Spring 2025: Mon. and Wed. 3:30-4:30 p.m. or by appt.
Research Interests: Modernism, Gender Studies, Environmental Criticism, Visual Culture, Digital Humanities, Russian-Italian Cultural Interactions, and Slavic Immigrant Art
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, 1233 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1233
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