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
Email: mnaayers@uoregon.edu
Office: 1787 Agate Street, Suite 104, 1245 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Office Hours: Mon-Fri 8:30-5:00
Mariam Nadeem
Comparative Literature Graduate Student/GE
Raymund Fellow
Comparative Literature
Email: mariamn@uoregon.edu
Office: 310 Villard Hall, 5242 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-5242
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
Email: gnair@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: Fall term: MW 10.00 am - 12.00 pm and by appointment.
Research Interests: Comics, Visual Culture, Memoirs, Bildungsroman, Migration, Race, Trauma Studies, Literary and Critical Theory
Michael Malek Najjar
Professor, Theater Arts
Theatre Arts
Email: mnajjar@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-2237
Office: 11A Mac Court, 1231 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Office Hours: On sabbatical Fall 2025
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
Email: naoko@uoregon.edu
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
Email: jpneal@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: Fall 2025: Monday and Wednesday 3:20-4:20PM or by appointment
Research Interests: History & Philosophy of Science, History & Philosophy of Molecular Biology, Philosophy of Psychiatry, Philosophy of Medicine
Julia Nemirovskaya
Senior Instructor I
Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: nemro@uoregon.edu
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
Email: anewsom@uoregon.edu
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
Email: znickels@uoregon.edu
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
Email: nic@uoregon.edu
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