Humanities
HyeRyoung Ok
Senior Instructor I
Digital Humanities, Cinema Studies
Email: hok@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-7644
Office: 245 PLC, 6223 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Office Hours: Fall 2025: Tuesdays 12-2pm (on Zoom or in-person by appointment)
K Olivar
English Graduate Student / GE
English
Email: kolivar@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1314
Office: 220 PLC, 1286 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286
Office Hours: Winter Term: I am on fellowship and do not have scheduled office hours. Please reach out via email if you would like to schedule a meeting.
Research Interests: Early Modern / Renaissance Literature, Drama, Disability Studies, Neurodiversity
Leslie Opp-Beckman
Director of Innovative Programs, AEI
American English Institute, Language Teaching Studies
Email: leslieob@uoregon.edu
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
Skyler Outler
Philosophy Graduate Student
Philosophy
Email: soutler@uoregon.edu
Office: Susan Campbell Hall 211, Eugene OR 97403
Xiao Ouyang
Ph.D.
GE
Philosophy
Email: xiaoo@uoregon.edu
Office: 11 Susan Campbell Hall
Office Hours: Fall 2021 TBA
Research Interests: The later philosophy of Heidegger in a cross-cultural context
Priscilla Peña Ovalle
Associate Professor
Comics and Cartoon Studies, IRES, Cinema Studies, Latinx
Email: povalle@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0060
Office: 315 McKenzie Hall, 6223 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Office Hours: By Appointment
Research Interests: Media Studies, Race/Ethnicity, Dance, Mainstream Popular Culture, Media Hairstyles
Lo Owens
ASU4 Faculty Support
Human Physiology, Linguistics, Psychology
Email: lowens@uoregon.edu
Office: 936 PLC, 1284 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1284
Minyoung Park
English Graduate Student
English
Email: minyoung@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Modernism, 20th Century Anglophone Literature, The Novel, Medical Humanities, Feminist Theory, Fashion
Sueanne E. Parker
Sr Instructor I
Senior Instructor I
American English Institute
Email: sparker@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3945
Office: 213 Agate Hall, 5212 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-5212
Trish Pashby
Teaching Professor
Language Teaching Studies, Linguistics
Email: pashby@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3945
Office: 169 Straub Hall
Office Hours: Monday/Wednesday 10:30-11:30 and by appointment
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.
Tom Payne
Research Associate
Linguistics
Email: tpayne@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Typological morphology and syntax. Mother-tongue based multi-lingual education. Philippine languages and Manchu languages.
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, 2:00-4:00pm and by appointment
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
Eric Pederson
Associate Professor, Retired
Linguistics
Email: epederso@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3900
Office: 375 Straub Hall
Research Interests: Semantic typology, gesture, psycholinguistics, Dravidian linguistics
Paul Peppis
Professor, emeritus
Comics and Cartoon Studies, English
Email: ppeppis@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Comics and Cartoon Studies, Cultural Studies, Irish Literary Studies, Modernism Studies, Poetry and Poetics, Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity, The Novel