IRES Faculty
Ernesto Javier Martínez
IRES Department Head & Associate Professor
CAS Collegiate Faculty
Black Studies, IRES, Latinx
Email: ejm@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5523
Office: Alder Building
Office Hours: Wednesdays, 3-5pm
Research Interests: Comparative Ethnic Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Latinx Studies, Feminist Theory, Literary Studies
José W. Meléndez
PhD Program Director
Associate Professor
CLLAS, IRES, PPPM
Email: jmelende@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-2142
Office Hours: By Appointment
Research Interests: Civic engagement, Design-based research, Designing for equity, Designing learning environments, Designing participatory processes, Discourse analysis, Activity systems, Latino/a/x immigrants, Collective & system level learning, Learning Sciences
Isabel Millán
Associate Professor
Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies, IRES
Email: imillan@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: On sabbatical during the 2025-2026 academic year.
Research Interests: Queer, Transnational Feminist, and Critical Race Theories; Latinx/Chicanx Studies; Children's Literature, Television, and Film; Comics; Science Fiction and Fantasy; Ephemera Studies
Lanie Millar
Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese
African Studies, Black Studies, Comparative Literature, IRES, Portuguese, Romance Languages, Spanish, College of Arts and Sciences, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: lmillar@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4031
Office Hours: Fall, 2025: By appointment. Please email.
Research Interests: 20th-21st Century Caribbean Literature, Latin American Literature, African Literature, Lusophone Literatures, Global South Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Race and Blackness, Critical Theory