Romance Languages
Alejandro Acero Ayuda
Graduate Employee, Spanish, PhD
Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program
Email: aaceroay@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4021
Office: 192K Esslinger
Office Hours: Hours: Mondays & Wednesdays 9:00-10:00am / Tuesdays & Thursdays 12:00-1:00pm or by appointment
Research Interests: Sociolinguistics, Heritage Speakers, Second Language Acquisition, Bilingualism, Technology and Education, Endangered Languages and Language Revitalization (Ladino)
Sarah Agou
Graduate Employee, RL
French, Italian, Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish
Email: sagou@uoregon.edu
Office: Esslinger 192E
Office Hours: Tuesday and Thursday, 11:00-12:00, and by appointment
Research Interests: Indigenous Literature, Caribbean Literature, Feminist Theory, Women's Writing, Decolonial Studies
Alexandre Albert-Galtier
Associate Professor Emeritus of French
French, Romance Languages
Email: alexalga@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4026
Office: 322 Friendly Hall, 1233 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1205
Research Interests: 17th Centuty French Literature, Theater, Arts and Literature: Painters and Writers
Maria Licia Aldana Rogers
Spanish Instructor
Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish
Email: aldanaro@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4497
Office: 414 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Mondays 10:00-11:50 by ZOOM and by Appointment
Research Interests: Transatlantic studies. Women and memory and Bolivian and Latin America Literature.
Rafael Arias
Senior Instructor II of Spanish
Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program
Email: rarias@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4106
Office: 16 Friendly Hall, 1233 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1233
Office Hours: T&R 11:00-12:00
Ray Balstad
Graduate Program Coordinator
African Studies, Asian Studies, Chinese, College of Arts and Sciences, East Asian Languages, Food Studies, French, German & Scandinavian, Global Studies, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Middle East and North African Studies, OCIAS, Portuguese, Romance Languages, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program, Yamada Language Center
Email: rbalstad@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-2703
Office: 114D Friendly Hall
Office Hours: MTWRF 8:30am - 4:30pm
Research Interests: French, Film, Comics, Foreign Language Acquisition, Botany
Omar Barahona Barahona
Graduate Employee, PhD Student
Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish
Email: obarahon@uoregon.edu
Office: Friendly 27
Office Hours: Wed 2:00-4:00 PM or by appointment
Magela Baudoin Teran
Graduate Employee, Spanish, PhD Candidate
Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: mbaudoin@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-852-5628
Office: 192K Esslinger Hall
Research Interests: Latin American literature from the mid-20th to the 21st centuries, Writing as Creative Laboratories, Aesthetic and Political Performances, Auto-fiction in Modern Literature, Women and Gender Studies, Decolonial Studies.
Mathilde Bégu
Career Instructor of French and 2nd-year French Language Program Supervisor
French, Romance Languages
Email: mbegu@uoregon.edu
Phone: Teams
Office: 201 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Thursday 2:30-4:30pm
Research Interests: Teaching French as a second language, Teaching francophone literature, Ecofeminism, Decolonial literature
Fatima Benhabyb
Undergraduate Program Coordinator
African Studies, Asian Studies, East Asian Languages, European Studies, Food Studies, French, German & Scandinavian, Global Studies, Italian, Japanese, Judaic Studies Program, Korean, Latin American Studies, Middle East and North African Studies, Romance Languages, Romance Languages Major, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program
Email: fatimab@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-2047
Office: 114 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: MTWRF 8:30am-4:30pm [Remote Fridays]
Aurélie Bertin
Graduate Student
Romance Languages
Email: abertin@uoregon.edu
Office: 30 Friendly Hall
Research Interests: Teaching French and Pedagogy, Language Teachings Studies, Linguistics, Cinema Studies, Translation Studies, 17th century French literature.
Carrie Brown Reiily
Spanish Instructor
Romance Languages
Email: creilly@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4207
Office: 20 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Tuesday 3 pm - 4:30 pm 193 ANS
Gabriel José Carrión Pérez
Graduate Employee
Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish
Email: gcarrion@uoregon.edu
Phone: 4582619476
Office: Friendly Hall 27
Research Interests: Literary Theory, South American Poetry, Ecocritics
Grecia Chirinos Delgado
Career Instructor of Spanish
Global Studies, Latin American Studies, Latinx, Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program
Email: chirinos@uoregon.edu
Phone: Teams call
Office: 201 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: MW 3:00-4:00pm and by appoinment
Research Interests: U.S. Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Education, Critical Language Awareness, Sociolinguistics, Critical Pedagodies
Stacey Christian
Career Instructor of Spanish
Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: schristi@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4203
Office: Friendly 102C
Office Hours: 11-12:50 Wednesdays or email to make an appointment
Research Interests: Spanish Language Teaching, Translation, Second Language Acquisition
Annie Christofferson
Undergraduate & Program Coordinator
French, German & Scandinavian, Global Health Program, Global Studies, Italian, Judaic Studies Program, Portuguese, Romance Languages, Spanish
Email: achrist8@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0746
Office: Friendly 114
Amy Costales
Senior Instructor II of Spanish
College of Arts and Sciences, Latinx, Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program
Email: acostale@uoregon.edu
Phone: Contact via e-mail or Teams
Office: 226 Friendly Hall, 1233 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1233
Office Hours: Tuesday and Thursday 2:00-3:00 or via Teams(send message for Teams)
Research Interests: U.S Spanish, Linguistics, Border expression, Latino experience in U.S., K-12 education, children's literature, LatCrit, CRT
Arezou Darvishi
Graduate Employee, French
French, Romance Languages
Email: arezoud@uoregon.edu
Office: spring24: Friendly Hall 30
Office Hours: Mondays 10-12 or by appointment
Research Interests: Data Feminism, Body Shaming, French Feminism, Feminism in Middle-East, Intersectionality, Women's Writing, Gendered Language, Women & Migration in Post-colonialism
Liliana Darwin Lopez
Senior Instructor II of Spanish and Spanish Heritage Language
Profesora de español como segunda lengua y lengua de herencia
Romance Languages, Romance Languages Major, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program
Email: ldarwin@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4104
Office: 20 Friendly Hall, 1233 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1233
Office Hours: OTOÑO 2024 lunes y miércoles (MW) 12-1 p.m.
Research Interests: Latines in the U.S., Latine Literature, Estudios culturales
Olivia Denton
Faculty Support Coordinator
ASU 1 - School of Global Studies and Languages
African Studies, Asian Studies, Chinese, East Asian Languages, Food Studies, French, German & Scandinavian, Global Studies, Ichishkiin Language, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latin American Studies, Middle East and North African Studies, Modern Hebrew Language, Northwest Indian Language Institute, OCIAS, Portuguese, Romance Languages, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program, Yamada Language Center
Email: odenton@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1385
Office: 107 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: MTWTF 9:00-5:00
Lauretta De Renzo-Huter
Senior Instructor II
First Year Italian Supervisor
Italian, Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: derenzo@uoregon.edu
Phone: n/a
Office: 175 MCK
Office Hours: Wednesday 12:00-2:00
Juanita Devereaux
Senior Instructor of Spanish II
Romance Languages
Email: uuebner@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4057
Office: 105 A Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Fridays 11:00-12:50pm in 175 McKenzie
Research Interests: World literature, social movements, Indigenous cultures, Art & Peace Studies
Connie Dickey
Senior Instructor II of French
1st-Year French Supervisor
French, Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: cldickey@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4025
Office: 105D Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Mon. 2:00-2:50 pm (in 175 MCK), Th. 10:30-11:20 (in 105D Friendly), & by apptmt
Research Interests: 2nd-language learning and teaching; French phonetics, grammar, historical Romance linguistics, & medieval French and Occitan literature
Andre Djiffack
Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies
French, Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: djiffack@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0958
Office: 210 Friendly Hall, 1233 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1233
Office Hours: Thursdays 3:30 - 5:20 pm
Brita Ellis
Academic Programs Manager
African Studies, Asian Studies, Chinese, College of Arts and Sciences, East Asian Languages, Food Studies, French, German & Scandinavian, Global Studies, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Middle East and North African Studies, Portuguese, Romance Languages, Romance Languages Major, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish
Email: bellis5@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-9782
Office: Friendly 114E
Paula Ellister
Supervisor, First-year Spanish
Senior Instructor of Spanish II, Interim Director of Language Instruction
Romance Languages
Email: ellister@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0954
Office: 227 Friendly Hall, 1233 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1205
Office Hours: 11-11:50 Wednesdays and Thursdays and by appointment
Cecilia Enjuto Rangel
Associate Professor of Spanish
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: enjuto@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4045
Office: 323 Friendly Hall, 1233 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1233
Office Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays 9am-10am
Giacomo Frazzetta
Graduate Employee
Romance Languages
Email: giacomof@uoregon.edu
Phone: (541) 5790627
Office: 30 Friendly Hall
Research Interests: Comparative Literature, Cinema Studies, Romanticism, Modernism, Postmodernism, Italy's South, Mafia Films
Yuruhary Gallardo García
Graduate student, Spanish PhD
Graduate Employee
Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish
Email: yuruhary@uoregon.edu
Office: Friendly Hall 27
Research Interests: Latin American Art and Philosophy, Textile Arts, Greek Mythology.
Pedro García-Caro
Associate Professor of Spanish
Senator
OCIAS, Romance Languages, SAIL, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish, Translation Studies
Email: pgcaro@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5813
Office: 325 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: W. 10am-12pm or by appointment.
Research Interests: Nationalism, Postmodernity, Postcolonial Studies, Environmental Studies, US Hispanic Literatures, Mexican Literature, Border Literature, Comparative American Studies, Transatlantic Studies, Satire, Drama, Translation
Leonardo Garcia-Pabon
Professor Emeriti
Professor of Spanish
Romance Languages, Spanish
Email: lgarcia@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4024
Office: 223 Friendly Hall, 1233 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1233
Diana Garvin
Assistant Professor of Italian, Mediterranean Studies
Food Studies, Italian, Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: dgarvin@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-6984
Office: 421 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Monday, 11:30am-1:30pm
Research Interests: Transnational Italian Studies (East Africa, Brazil), Fascism and Neo-Fascism, Food Studies, Environmental Humanities, Medical Humanities
Rhone Geha
Pro Tempore Instructor of French
French, Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: rgeha@uoregon.edu
Office: Friendly 407
Office Hours: Thursdays, 1:00-3:00 pm in McKenzie 175
Research Interests: 21st and 20th century francophone literature and philosophy, comparative literature, postcolonial studies, cinema studies, critical theory
Evlyn Gould
Professor Emerita
College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor in Humanities
Comparative Literature, French, Judaic Studies Program, Romance Languages
Email: evgould@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: nineteenth century French studies,Jewish studies,European studies,interdisciplinary studies in literature, music, dance
Devin Grammon
Assistant Professor of Spanish Sociolinguistics
Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish
Email: grammon@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4070
Office: 417 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Wednesdays 3-5pm
Research Interests: Sociocultural Linguistics, Second Language Studies, Linguistic Ethnography, Language Contact, Quechua and Andean Spanish, Linguistic Landscapes
Miguel Antonio Guevara
Graduate Student, Graduate Employee
Ph. D. Student
Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish
Email: miguelan@uoregon.edu
Phone: 4582509729
Office: Friendly 27
Office Hours: Friendly 27 in person or Zoom by appointment.
Research Interests: Subjetivity, Latin American Studies, Digital Culture, Decoloniality, Creative Writing, Noise & Music, Hegel
Viana Hara
PhD Graduate Candidate , Romance Languages
Spanish Instructor
IRES, Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish, Yamada Language Center
Email: vhara@uoregon.edu
Office: Friendly 106 A
Office Hours: Falll 2024 TBA
Research Interests: Race and Gender Studies, Visual Culture ( postcards, comics), Decoloniaty approaches and Caribbean Narratives .( Panamá, U.S and West Indians Diasporas)
Paulo Henriquez
Senior Instructor of Spanish
Second Year Supervisor
Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish
Email: pauloh@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3153
Office: 22 Friendly Hall, 1233 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1233
Office Hours: Fall 24, Tuesdays/Thursdays 10:00-10:50 or by appointment
Angélica Hernández Viera
Graduate Employee, Spanish Ph.D. Student
Spanish Instructor
Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages
Phone: 541-346-9780
Office: Friendly Hall #27
Office Hours: MCK 175D and Via Zoom
Research Interests: Spanish Sociolinguistics, Heritage Spanish Students, Bilingual and Dual Language Education, History of the Spanish Language, México-US border linguistic studies, Latin American Literature, Immigration, Women's Studies
Gina Herrmann
Norman H. Brown Faculty Fellow, Professor of Spanish, National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow 2017-18
Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: gah@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-654-2705
Office: 220 Friendly Hall, 1233 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1233
Office Hours: WED 10-12 virtual, please text in advance
Research Interests: Communist and Leftist Studies, Holocaust Studies, Spanish Memory Studies
Nathalie Hester
Giustina Family Associate Professor
French, Italian, Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: nhester@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4058
Office: 222 Friendly Hall, 1233 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1233
Office Hours: Fall 2024: Mondays 1-3pm
Kelley Howarth
Career Faculty in Spanish
Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program
Email: khowarth@uoregon.edu
Office: 223 Friendly Hall, 1233 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1233
Office Hours: Tuesday 2:00-3:50pm & by appt.
Research Interests: Critical pedagogies, Spanish language contact and variation, heritage language pedagogy
Jon Jaramillo
Career Instructor of Spanish, Ph.D.
College of Arts and Sciences, Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish
Email: jonj@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4497
Office: 202 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: By appointment https://uoregon.zoom.us/j/8747897222
Research Interests: Politics, Post colonial Studies, Philosophy, SLAT, Queer Studies, Women's and Gender Studies, Poetry, Cinema, Translation Studies, Memory Studies, Transfeminism
Harinder Khalsa
Senior Instructor II of Italian/YLC Self Study Language Program Coordinator
Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: harinder@uoregon.edu
Office: MCK 161
Office Hours: MW 12:00-12:45 PM or by appointment
Research Interests: Italian language and culture, Turkish language and culture, Less Commonly Taught Languages, second language acquisition, teaching and teacher training.
Jonathan Knight
Operations Coordinator
African Studies, Asian Studies, College of Arts and Sciences, East Asian Languages, European Studies, Food Studies, German & Scandinavian, Global Health Program, Global Studies, Ichishkiin Language, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latin American Studies, Middle East and North African Studies, Native American Studies, Northwest Indian Language Institute, Portuguese, Romance Languages, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program, Yamada Language Center
Email: jknight6@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0951
Office: 114 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: 8-4:30 M-F
Massimo Lollini
Professor Emeritus of Italian
Comparative Literature, Italian, Romance Languages
Email: maxiloll@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0957
Office: 325 Friendly Hall, 1233 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1205
Research Interests: Humanisms, More-than-Human-Humanism and Ecocriticism, Digital Culture and New Media, Digital Philology, Mediterranean Studies, Italian and European literature and theory.
Sergio Loza
Assistant Professor of Spanish Linguistics
Director of the Spanish Heritage Language Program
Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program
Email: sloza@uoregon.edu
Office: 430 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Email me for details
Research Interests: Spanish heritage language education, Spanish heritage language pedagogy, linguistics, sociolinguistics, U.S. Spanish, critical language awareness
Gloria Macedo Janto
Graduate Employee, Romance Languages, PhD (Spanish and Quechua)
Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program
Email: gmacedo@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: Thursday 3 - 4 p.m. or by appointment
Research Interests: Memory and Testimony, Politics and Fiction, Genealogies in Afro and Andean Literatures, Gender Studies, Spanish and Quechua
Cristina Manning
Graduate Employee
Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: cman@uoregon.edu
Alejandro Marín
Graduate Employee, RL, PHD
Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish
Email: amarin5@uoregon.edu
Office: Friendly Hall 13
Office Hours: Mondays & Wednesdays 11am-12m
Research Interests: Postcolonial & Decolonial studies, Migration studies, narratives from the Hispanophone Caribbean & Equatorial-Guinea.
Nicole Mésange
Graduate Student, French
Graduate Employee, French
French, Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: nwee@uoregon.edu
Office: 30 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Monday 2PM-3PM, Thursday 11AM-12PM
Leah Middlebrook
Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Spanish
Director, Oregon Humanities Center (OHC)
Comparative Literature, Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish
Email: middlebr@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3103
Office: 355 PLC Hall
Office Hours: on sabbatical leave F 2024
Research Interests: poetry and poetics; comparative modernities; critical race studies; early modern literature and culture of Spain, the Spanish Americas, France and Great Britain
Lanie Millar
Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese
African Studies, Black Studies, Comparative Literature, IRES, Portuguese, Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish
Email: lmillar@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4031
Office Hours: Fall, 2024: in person, MW 2-3, and by appointment. Zoom by appointment only: https://uoregon.zoom.us/j/7482429908
Research Interests: 20th-21st Century Caribbean Literature, Latin American Literature, African Literature, Lusophone Literatures, Global South Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Race and Blackness, Critical Theory
Fabienne Moore
Associate Professor of French
French, Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: fmoore@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4032
Office: 324 Friendly Hall, 1233 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1233
Office Hours: Fall 2024: Thursdays 9:30-11:30 am
Research Interests: Early European romanticism; Chateaubriand; European Enlightenment; French & Haitian Revolutions; French and Francophone cultural and literary history; prose poetry; bande dessinées & graphic narratives; blue humanities
Jordan Morris
Office Generalist, ASU 1
African Studies, Asian Studies, Chinese, College of Arts and Sciences, East Asian Languages, European Studies, Food Studies, French, General Social Sciences, German & Scandinavian, Global Studies, Ichishkiin Language, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latin American Studies, Middle East and North African Studies, Northwest Indian Language Institute, Portuguese, Romance Languages, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program, Yamada Language Center
Email: jmor@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-2579
Office: FR 107
Office Hours: 8:00a - 4:30p
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
Phone: 5413460171
Office: Friendly 107
Office Hours: Mon-Fri 8:30-5:00
Karen Neal
UG Coordinator
Asian Studies, East Asian Languages, German & Scandinavian, Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: kjneal@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4051
Office: 114 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: M-F: 8:00am - 12:00pm
Alex O'Ryan
Graduate Employee, Spanish, MA
Romance Languages
Email: aoryan@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1359
Office: 30 Friendly Hall
Research Interests: Second Language Pedagogy, Linguistics, Sociolinguistics
Eleanor Paynter
Assistant Professor
Romance Languages
Email: epaynter@uoregon.edu
Office: Friendly Hall 105A
Office Hours: Wednesdays, 11:30-1:30
Research Interests: transnational Italy, media and politics of migration, asylum and migrant rights, Africa-Europe migration, race in Europe, social movements, and testimony via critical refugee studies, media studies, ethnography, and oral history
Marina Peñalosa Montero
Graduate Employee, Spanish, PhD Candidate
Latin American Studies, Romance Languages, Spanish
Email: mpenalos@uoregon.edu
Office: 192F Esslinger Hall
Office Hours: M/T 11-noon and By appt (Zoom)
Research Interests: Comparative Literature, Latin-American Literature, Jorge Luis Borges, Borges essays, Philosophical Concepts in Literature, Auto-fiction in Modern Literature (20th and 21th century)
Gerardo Pisacane
Graduate Employee, Italian, PhD
Italian, Romance Languages
Email: gpisaca2@uoregon.edu
Phone: 865-232-9328
Office: Friendly 30
Office Hours: Monday, 12 -13 (FREE TUTORING, Mckenzie 175) or by appointment
Research Interests: Teaching Italian and Pedagogy. Cinema and Television Studies, Gender and Sexuality, Queer Studies
Géraldine Poizat-Newcomb
Senior Instructor II of French
French, Romance Languages, 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 12-12:50
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!
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
Heather Quarles
Senior Instructor II of Spanish
Latinx, Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program
Email: hquarles@uoregon.edu
Phone: No UO phone
Office: 223 Friendly
Office Hours: Mondays and Wednesdays 12-1pm
Research Interests: Translanguaging, Critical Language Awareness, Sociolinguistics, US Spanish, Critical Pedagogies
Isabelle Rogers
Graduate Student, MA, Spanish
Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish
Email: irogers@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: translation, Spanish and Latin American theatre, film, ecodrama, ecofeminism, transatlantic studies
Andrea Romero Dugarte
Intercultural Experiences and Career Readiness Coordinator (IEC)
African Studies, Asian Studies, East Asian Languages, European Studies, Food Studies, German & Scandinavian, Global Health Program, Global Studies, Ichishkiin Language, Latin American Studies, Middle East and North African Studies, Modern Hebrew Language, Northwest Indian Language Institute, Romance Languages, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, School of Global Studies and Languages, Yamada Language Center
Phone: 541-346-4007
Office: Friendly Hall 114B
Lisa Ross
Associate Director
African Studies, Asian Studies, Chinese, East Asian Languages, Food Studies, French, German & Scandinavian, Global Studies, Ichishkiin Language, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Middle East and North African Studies, Modern Hebrew Language, Northwest Indian Language Institute, OCIAS, Portuguese, Romance Languages, Romance Languages Major, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program, Yamada Language Center
Email: lgillis@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4005
Office: 107 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: M-F 8-5
Andrew Rothgery
Senior Instructor II of Spanish
Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish
Email: andyr@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4057
Office: UO Annex, Ste 6, 1233 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1233
Office Hours: Weds, 1-3pm
Research Interests: Spanish Heritage Language, social justice, indigenous cultures, Guatemala, Mexico, literature, music and film
Maryam Saedi
Instructor of French
French, Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: maryams@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4497
Office: 198C Esslinger Hall
Maria 'Bene' Santos
Senior Instructor 1 of Portuguese
Portuguese Language Supervisor
Portuguese, Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: benballe@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4052
Office: 411 Friendly Hall, 1233 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1233
Office Hours: Monday and Wednesday 2:00 to 2:50
Jesús Sepúlveda
Senior Instructor II of Spanish Composition, Creative Writing, and Poetry
Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish
Email: jsepulve@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-8304
Office: 313 Friendly Hall, 1233 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Office Hours: W 1:00-3:00 pm
Research Interests: Poetry, Latin American and Spanish Literature, World Literature, Creative Writing, Shamanism, Avant-Garde and Post Avant-Garde Movements, Intoxicated Texts, Green Anarchy, Southern Cone, Critical Theory, Global Studies
Analisa Taylor
Associate Professor of Spanish
Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: analisa@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-521-9762
Office: 326 Friendly Hall, 1233 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1205
Office Hours: On leave winter '23
Research Interests: Culture and Social Movements in Latinx USA and Latin America; Mesoamerican Foodways, Migrations, and Human Rights; Ecology, Culture, Capital, and the State in the Americas
Pablo Torres
Graduate Employee, Spanish, PhD
Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: pablos@uoregon.edu
Phone: +1 (541) 285-6919
Office: 30 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Tuesdays and Wednesdays 4-5pm @Knight Library 224
Research Interests: Latin American narrative, 20th century, 21st century, existentialism, censorship, cinema, queer studies, memory studies
Salma Valadez-Marquez
Graduate Employee, PhD Candidate
Folklore Program, Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: svaladez@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Náhuatl foodways, Mexican storytelling traditions and Indigeneity
Katie VanOort
Masters Student and Graduate Employee
French, Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: kava@uoregon.edu
Office: Friendly 30
Office Hours: Wednesdays 12-1pm and Thursdays 2:30-3:30pm
Research Interests: French colonization of Canada, early modern epistolary writing, Marie de l'Incarnation, feminism, early modern feminism, indigenous studies
Claudia Ventura
Senior Instructor II of Italian
Second Year Supervisor
Italian, Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: vencla@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4039
Office: 216 Friendly Hall, 1233 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1233
Office Hours: Mondays, Fridays and Wednesdays 11-11:45 AM in MCK 175
Marci Viano-Davis
Operations Manager
ASU 1 - School of Global Studies and Languages
College of Arts and Sciences, East Asian Languages, Food Studies, German & Scandinavian, Global Studies, Ichishkiin Language, Italian, Japanese, Latin American Studies, Middle East and North African Studies, Northwest Indian Language Institute, OCIAS, Romance Languages, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program, Yamada Language Center
Email: marcid@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4019
Office: 116 Friendly
Office Hours: 9-3 M-F
Yosa Vidal
Instructor of Spanish
Spanish
Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish
Email: yosav@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4497
Office: 198C Esslinger Hall
Office Hours: T-Th 12:00-12:50
Research Interests: Latin American Literature, Aesthetics and Politics, Comic Studies, Creative Writing.
David Wacks
Professor of Spanish
Medieval Studies, Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: wacks@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4029
Office: 105C Friendly Hall, 1233 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1233
Office Hours: On leave through Spring 2025
Research Interests: Medieval Iberian literature and culture, Sephardic studies, Mediterranean Studies
Nathan Whalen
Senior Instructor II of Spanish
Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish
Email: natewh@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4257
Office: 422 Friendly
Office Hours: Wednesday 11-1
Alex Zunterstein
Senior Instructor II of Spanish & Assistant Head, Romance Languages
Spanish Heritage Language Program Coordinator
Latinx, Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program
Email: azunters@uoregon.edu
Phone: Contact on Microsoft Teams
Office: 213 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Tues 9-11 *only for students enrolled in my SPAN 312 & SPAN 320 classes. Please contact herencia@uoregon.edu for SHL advising hours.