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Alex O'Ryan

Graduate Employee, Spanish, MA

Romance Languages

Email: aoryan@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-1359

Office: 30 Friendly Hall

Research Interests: Second Language Pedagogy, Linguistics, Sociolinguistics

Dorothee Ostmeier

Professor of German, and Folklore and Public Culture

Folklore Program, German & Scandinavian, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages

Email: ostmeier@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-4145

Office: 204D Agate Hall, 1250 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1205

Office Hours: Tue/Thu 1:20 to 2 PM GSH 103 Afterwards Villard until 3:30 PM and by appointment

Research Interests: German literature and culture of the 18th through 20th century

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

Italian, Migration, and Global Media Studies

Romance Languages, Italian, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages

Email: epaynter@uoregon.edu

Office Hours: Tuesdays, 11:30-1:30

Research Interests: media and politics of migration, asylum and migrant rights, migration in Europe, Africa-Europe mobilities, transnational Italy, race in Europe, comparative border studies, social movements, human rights, and testimony via critical refugee studies, media studies, ethnography, and oral history

Abi Perito

Global Studies

Email: aperito@uoregon.edu

Office Hours: thursdays 1:30pm-3:30pm

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, Schnitzer 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, Schnitzer 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, 1210 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403

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

Email: presto@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-485-7400

Office: 346 PLC

Office Hours: Fall 2025: Wed. and Fri. 10:50-11:50 a.m. or by appt.

Research Interests: Modernism, Gender Studies, Environmental Criticism, Visual Culture, Digital Humanities, Russian-Italian Cultural Interactions, and Immigrant Arts

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

Heather Quarles

Teaching Professor of Spanish

Romance Languages, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program, College of Arts and Sciences, Latinx, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages

Email: hquarles@uoregon.edu

Phone: No UO phone

Office: PLC 103

Office Hours: Mondays and Wednesdays 3:30-4:30pm or by appointment

Research Interests: Translanguaging, Critical Language Awareness, Sociolinguistics, US Spanish, Critical Pedagogies

Daniel Quintero Plata

PhD Student

German & Scandinavian, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages

Email: danielq@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-4084

Office: 202 Friendly Hall, University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403

Office Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays 10:00 - 11:00 pm

Research Interests: Daniel’s research interests also include 20th-century German literature, the representation of technology in literature and film, and the exploration of memory narratives. He has also worked on German Romanticism and the cultural transformations of the Weimar Republic. He is especially interested in how these periods reflect and respond to evolving concepts of human identity, autonomy, and memory, shaped by technological advancements.