Romance Languages Faculty

Gina Herrmann

Professor of Spanish

Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages

Phone: 541-654-2705

Office: 220 Friendly Hall, 1233 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1233

Office Hours: Monday 10-12 via Zoom, please text in advance<br /> <br /> Join Zoom Meeting<br /> https://uoregon.zoom.us/j/95826149988<br /> Meeting ID: 958 2614 9988

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 2025: Thursdays 2-3:30pm or by appointment

Kelley Howarth

Teaching Professor in Spanish

Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program, College of Arts and Sciences, Latinx

Email: khowarth@uoregon.edu

Office: 103 PLC

Office Hours: Mon & Thur 2-3pm and by appt.

Research Interests: Spanish language contact and variation, heritage language pedagogy, critical pedagogies

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: 201 Friendly Hall

Office Hours: Mondays 2 to 4 pm. Or, 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

College of Arts and Sciences, School of Global Studies and Languages, Romance Languages, Italian, Yamada Language Center

Email: harinder@uoregon.edu

Office: MCK 161

Office Hours: MW 13:00-13:45 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

Email: sloza@uoregon.edu

Office: 430 Friendly Hall, 1233 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1233

Office Hours: Email me for details

Research Interests: Spanish heritage language education, Spanish heritage language pedagogy, linguistics, sociolinguistics, U.S. Spanish, critical language awareness

Leah Middlebrook

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: F 2025 Thursdays 11 a.m.-noon, or by appt.

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, College of Arts and Sciences

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

Fabienne Moore

Associate Professor of French

Director of Graduate Studies, Romance Languages

French, Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages, College of Arts and Sciences

Email: fmoore@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-4032

Office: 324 Friendly Hall, 1233 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1233

Office Hours: Fall 2025: Weds 9-11 am and by appoint. Call 541-346-4032 to get in UO Annex 118

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

Italian, Migration, and Global Media Studies

School of Global Studies and Languages, Romance Languages, Italian

Email: epaynter@uoregon.edu

Office Hours: Tuesdays, 11:30-1:30

Research Interests: media and politics of migration, asylum and migrant rights, Africa-Europe migration, transnational Italy, race in Europe, comparative border studies, social movements, human rights, 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

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

Heather Quarles

Teaching Professor of Spanish

Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program, College of Arts and Sciences, Latinx

Email: hquarles@uoregon.edu

Phone: No UO phone

Office: PLC 103

Office Hours: Mondays and Wednesdays 3:30-4:30pm or by appointment

Research Interests: Translanguaging, Critical Language Awareness, Sociolinguistics, US Spanish, Critical Pedagogies

Isabelle Rogers

Graduate Student, PhD, Spanish

Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish, College of Arts and Sciences

Email: irogers@uoregon.edu

Office Hours: SPAN 102, Winter 2025: Mondays-Tuesdays 1-2pm, Friendly Hall 13

Research Interests: translation, Spanish theatre, Latin American theatre, technical theatre, comedy, ecodrama, ecofeminism, feminism, ecocriticism, extractivism, transatlantic studies, Carmen Conde, Baldomero Lillo, Sub-Terra

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: Tuesday & Wednesday, 4-5pm

Research Interests: Social justice; indigenous languages and cultures; the Maya; testimonial; Guatemala; Mexico; creative writing; subversive literature, music and film; protest music; guitar; languages and cultures in contact; heritage languages; Chicano literature; literature; human intelligence; humanism; oral histories; stories.

Maria 'Bene' Santos

Senior Instructor II 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

Teaching Professor 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

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

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