Humanities

McRae Naayers

Faculty Support Coordinator
African Studies, Asian Studies, East Asian Languages, European Studies, Food Studies, German & Scandinavian, Global Health Program, Global Studies, Ichishkiin Language, Judaic Studies Program, 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
Phone: 5413460171
Office: Friendly 107
Office Hours: Mon-Fri 8:30-5:00

Ahmad Nadalizadeh

Comparative Literature Graduate Student/GE
Comparative Literature
Phone: 541-346-4060
Office: 313 Villard
Research Interests: Modernism, drawing from English, Persian, Arabic and French literatures; postcolonial and transnational literary theory; film and critical media studies; philosophy and aesthetics

Madhu Nadarajah

English Graduate Student / GE
Assistant Director of Composition
English
Phone: 541-346-0531
Office: 241 PLC
Office Hours: Spring Term: W 10am-1pm & by appt.
Research Interests: Cultural Rhetorics; Postcolonial Theory; Tamil Cultural Production

Mariam Nadeem

Comparative Literature Graduate Student/ ENG GE
Raymund Fellow
English
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
Phone: 541-346-0528
Office: 321 PLC
Office Hours: Spring Term: TW 2-3:30pm via appt. only

Michael Malek Najjar

Professor, Theater Arts
Theatre Arts
Phone: 541-346-2237
Office: B11A MacArthur Court
Office Hours: Winter 2024: Tuesdays, Thursdays 1:00-2:00 p.m., and by appointment.
Research Interests: Contemporary Arab-American Theatre and Performance, Contemporary Theatre, Ethnic Studies, Critical Race Theory, Arab-American Studies.

Naoko Nakadate

Senior Instructor II, Japanese Language
East Asian Languages
Phone: 541-346-0047
Office: 410 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: M&T 10:00-11:30 or by appointment

Martha Ndakalako

Comparative Literature Graduate Student/GE
Comparative Literature
Phone: 541-346-3938
Office: 222 PLC
Research Interests: African literature, Global Anglophone Literature, World Literature, (Post) Colonial Studies, Namibian and Southern African Literatures, Transnational Feminisms, African Studies, Black Studies

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
Phone: 541-346-4001
Office: 271 PLC
Office Hours: by appointment

Alex Newsom

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

John Nicols

Professor Emeritus
Classics, History
Phone: 541-346-4817
Office: 350 McKenzie Hall

Shijia Nie

Graduate Student
East Asian Languages
Office: Friendly Hall 27
Research Interests: Pre-modern Chinese Literature