Humanities

McRae Naayers

Faculty Support Coordinator
African Studies, Asian Studies, East Asian Languages, European Studies, Food Studies, German & Scandinavian, Global Studies, Ichishkiin Language, Latin American Studies, Middle East and North African Studies, Modern Hebrew Language, Northwest Indian Language Institute, Romance Languages, Romance Languages Major, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, School of Global Studies and Languages, Yamada Language Center
Office Hours: Mon-Fri 8:30-5:00

Mariam Nadeem

Comparative Literature Graduate Student/GE
Raymund Fellow
Comparative Literature
Phone: 541-346-0934
Office: 310 Villard Hall
Office Hours: Spring Term: MW 10-11:30am
Research Interests: De-colonial and feminist poetics in English, Urdu and Arabic literature, narrative identity and subject-formation, religion and secularism, existentialism, phenomenology and critical theory

Gowri Nair

English Graduate Student/GE
English
Office Hours: Spring term: TR 10.00-11.00 am, and by appointment
Research Interests: Comics, Graphic Narratives, Visual Culture, Memoirs, Bildungsroman, Migration, Race, Trauma Studies, Literary and Critical Theory

Michael Malek Najjar

Professor, Theater Arts
Theatre Arts
Phone: 541-346-2237
Office: B11A MacArthur Court
Office Hours: Spring 2025: Mondays and Fridays, 1:00-3:00pm, or by appointment.
Research Interests: Contemporary Arab-American and Middle Eastern-American Theatre and Performance, Contemporary Theatre, Ethnic Studies, Critical Race Theory, Arab-American Studies.

Naoko Nakadate

Senior Instructor II, Japanese Language
East Asian Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages
Phone: 541-346-0047
Office: 410 Friendly Hall, 1248 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1205
Office Hours: M 9:30-10:30 & 12:30-1:30, T 1:30-2:30 or by appointment

Jacob P. Neal

Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Philosophy
Office Hours: Spring 2025: Monday 3:30-4:30PM, Wednesday 12:45-1:45PM, or by appointment
Research Interests: History & Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Molecular Biology

Karen Neal

UG Coordinator
Asian Studies, East Asian Languages, German & Scandinavian, Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages
Phone: 541-346-4051
Office: 114 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: M-F: 8:00am - 12:00pm

Julia Nemirovskaya

Senior Instructor I
Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, School of Global Studies and Languages
Phone: 541-346-4001
Office: 271 PLC, 1262 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1262
Office Hours: by appointment

Alex Newsom

English Graduate Student
English
Phone: 541-346-0014
Office: 204 PLC
Research Interests: Modernism, Comics, Visual Culture, Comparative Media Analysis

Zachary Nickels

Comparative Literature Graduate Student/ENG GE
Philosophy Graduate Student
Comparative Literature, English
Research Interests: Continental Philosophy (Deconstruction, Phenomenology & Hermeneutics); Aesthetics; Greek Tragedy; Hegel & German Idealism; Theories of Desire; Psychoanalysis; Poetry & Poetics; Literary Theory; 20th and 21st Century Poetry; Postmodern Fiction

John Nicols

Professor Emeritus
Classics
Research Interests: John Nicols, Professor Emeritus of History and Classics at the University of Oregon, cherished husband, brother, father and grandfather, passed away peacefully on January 8, at the age of 81. To read John's full obituary, please visit: https://www.cremation-society.com/obituaries/John-Nicols?obId=34389328#/obituaryInfo