Humanities
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
Daniel Peres Santos
PhD
GE
Philosophy
Email: danper@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: 19th and 20th Century German Philosophy, Portuguese Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion, Classics, Logic, Pragmatism
Gabriela Pérez Báez
Associate Professor
Linguistics, Language Teaching Studies
Email: gperezb4@uoregon.edu
Office: 263 Straub Hall, 1290 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1290
Office Hours: Thursdays 10am - 12pm (or by appointment)<br />
Please sign up for a time slot here: https://tinyurl.com/5n77s5dw
Research Interests: Linguistic diversity, multi/plurilingualism, linguistic rights, Indigenous languages, language revitalization
Genevieve Pfeiffer
ESSP Graduate Student / GE
English, Environmental Studies
Email: gpfeiffe@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: Spring Term: MF 8-9:30am & by appt.
Maddie Pflueger
English Graduate Student / REL GE
English, Religious Studies
Email: madilynp@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1314
Office: 220 PLC, 1286 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286
Office Hours: Spring Term: MW 1:30-3pm
Research Interests: Graphic novels, Memoir, Disability studies, Medical humanities, Jewish literature & culture,
Alissa Phillips
Instructor
Instructor, Narrative (Fiction) Production
Cinema Studies
Email: alissap@uoregon.edu
Whitney Phillips
Associate Professor of Information Politics and Media Ethics
John L. Hulteng Endowed Chair in Media Ethics and Responsibility
Folklore Program, SOJC, SOJC-Media Studies Undergrad, SOJC-Media Studies Master's, SOJC-Media Studies PhD
Email: wphilli2@uoregon.edu
Office: 202 Allen Hall
Research Interests: US politics and popular culture, media ethics, media history, public debate and controversy, humor studies, religion and politics, rightwing media cultures, moral panics, conspiratorial belief, narrative and identity, true crime media
Lauren C. Pinchin
Associate Director, ASU 5
Black Studies, CLLAS, Creative Writing Program, History, IRES, Latinx, Native American Studies, Theatre Arts, Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies, Cinema Studies, Anthropology, Geography
Email: lpinchin@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4806
Office: 275B McKenzie Hall, 1288 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1288
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
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!
Amanda Powell
Comparative Literature Graduate Student/ GE
PhD Candidate
Comparative Literature
Email: apowell3@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0050
Office: 304 PLC
Office Hours: Spring Term: M 12-1:30pm, W 3:30-5pm
Research Interests: mad studies, 20th-21st century Latinx poetry, British modernism;
Dissertation: Madness as a Disease of Language
Scott L. Pratt
Professor of Philosophy
Department Head
Philosophy
Email: spratt@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5971
Office: 239 Susan Campbell Hall, 1295 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1295
Office Hours: Mondays, from 1:00 until 3:00 Pacific Time in 211C Susan Campbell Hall. To schedule an appointment (in person or virtual) during office hours, use this link (https://calendly.com/spratt-9/office-hours). Email spratt@uoregon.edu to schedule an appointment outside office hours.
Research Interests: American Philosophy, History of Philosophy, Logic, Philosophy of Education
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: Winter 2026: Tues. and Thurs. 11:30-12:30 or by appt.
Research Interests: Modernism, Gender Studies, Environmental Criticism, Visual Culture, Digital Humanities, Russian-Italian Cultural Interactions, and Immigrant Arts
Sarah Preston
Assistant Teaching Professor
Dr.
English
Email: spreston@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1520
Office: 210 PLC, 1286 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286
Office Hours: Winter term: Mondays 12-1pm and 2-2:45pm; Tuesdays 11:30am - 12:15pm and 1:45pm - 2:45pm; or by appointment
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