Romance Languages Faculty

Maria Licia Aldana Rogers

Spanish Instructor
Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish
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
Phone: 541-346-4106
Office: 16 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: T&R 11:00-12:00

Mathilde Bégu

Career Instructor of French and 2nd-year French Language Program Supervisor
French, Romance Languages
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

Carrie Brown Reiily

Spanish Instructor
Romance Languages
Phone: 541-346-4207
Office: 20 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Tuesday 3 pm - 4:30 pm 193 ANS

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
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
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

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
Phone: Contact via e-mail or Teams
Office: 226 Friendly Hall
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

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
Phone: 541-346-4104
Office: 20 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: OTOÑO 2024 lunes y miércoles (MW) 12-1 p.m.
Research Interests: Latines in the U.S., Latine Literature, Estudios culturales

Lauretta De Renzo-Huter

Senior Instructor II
First Year Italian Supervisor
Italian, Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages
Phone: n/a
Office: 175 MCK
Office Hours: Wednesday 12:00-2:00

Juanita Devereaux

Senior Instructor of Spanish II
Romance Languages
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
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
Phone: 541-346-0958
Office: 210 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Thursdays 3:30 - 5:20 pm

Paula Ellister

Supervisor, First-year Spanish
Senior Instructor of Spanish II, Interim Director of Language Instruction
Romance Languages
Phone: 541-346-0954
Office: 227 Friendly Hall
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
Phone: 541-346-4045
Office: 323 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays 9am-10am

Pedro García-Caro

Associate Professor of Spanish
Senator
OCIAS, Romance Languages, SAIL, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish, Translation Studies
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

Diana Garvin

Assistant Professor of Italian, Mediterranean Studies
Food Studies, Italian, Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages
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
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

Devin Grammon

Assistant Professor of Spanish Sociolinguistics
Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish
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

Paulo Henriquez

Senior Instructor of Spanish
Second Year Supervisor
Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish
Phone: 541-346-3153
Office: 22 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Fall 24, Tuesdays/Thursdays 10:00-10:50 or by appointment

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
Phone: 541-654-2705
Office: 220 Friendly Hall
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
Phone: 541-346-4058
Office: 222 Friendly Hall
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
Office: 223 Friendly Hall
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
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
Phone: 541-346-1540 (email preferred)
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.

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
Office: 430 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Wednesday 4-5pm via Zoom only (email me for link)
Research Interests: Spanish heritage language education, Spanish heritage language pedagogy, linguistics, sociolinguistics, U.S. Spanish, critical language awareness

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
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
Phone: 541-346-4031
Office: Friendly 211
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
Phone: 541-346-4032
Office: 324 Friendly Hall
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

Eleanor Paynter

Assistant Professor
Romance Languages
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

Géraldine Poizat-Newcomb

Senior Instructor II of French
French, Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages
Phone: 541-346-4049
Office: 25 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: MW 12-12:50

Heather Quarles

Senior Instructor II of Spanish
Latinx, Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program
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

Andrew Rothgery

Senior Instructor II of Spanish
Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish
Phone: 541-346-4057
Office: UO Annex, Ste 6
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
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
Phone: 541-346-4052
Office: 411 Friendly Hall
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
Phone: 541-346-8304
Office: 313 Friendly Hall
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
Phone: 541-521-9762
Office: 326 Friendly Hall
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

Claudia Ventura

Senior Instructor II of Italian
Second Year Supervisor
Italian, Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages
Phone: 541-346-4039
Office: 216 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Mondays, Fridays and Wednesdays 11-11:45 AM in MCK 175

Yosa Vidal

Instructor of Spanish
Spanish
Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish
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
Phone: 541-346-4029
Office: 105C Friendly Hall
Office Hours: On leave through Spring 2025
Research Interests: Medieval Iberian literature and culture, Sephardic studies, Mediterranean Studies