Romance Languages Graduate Employee
Alejandro Acero Ayuda
Graduate Employee, Spanish, PhD ABD
Romance Languages, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages, College of Arts and Sciences
Email: aaceroay@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: Hours: Mondays & Wednesdays 9:00-10:00am / Tuesdays & Thursdays 1:00-2:00pm or by appointment.
Research Interests: Sociolinguistics, Heritage Speakers, Second Language Acquisition, Bilingualism, Technology and Education, Endangered Languages and Language Revitalization (Ladino)
Ryan Baker
RL PhD Candidate
Graduate Employee
College of Arts and Sciences, French, Romance Languages, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: rlba@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: Tuesday and Thursday from 11am to noon
Research Interests: Inter-War Literature and Rhetoric, Vichy France, 20th Century French and Spanish Film, Enlightenment Literature, Colonial/Post-Colonial Education
Omar Barahona Barahona
Graduate Employee, PhD Candidate
Romance Languages, Spanish, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: obarahon@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: Mon/Wed 11:00 - 11:50 (175 MCK)
Research Interests: Latin American Cultural Studies, Documentary Film, Agrarian Movements
Gabriel José Carrión Pérez
Graduate Employee
Romance Languages, Spanish, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages, College of Arts and Sciences
Email: gcarrion@uoregon.edu
Phone: 4582619476
Office Hours: Wednesday and Thursday at noon.
Research Interests: Blue Humanities, Environmental Cultural Studies, Literature, Cinema.
Viana Hara
PhD Graduate Candidate , Romance Languages
Spanish Instructor
IRES, Romance Languages, Spanish, Yamada Language Center
Email: vhara@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: Fall 2026, Mac Court 113. Thursday, 9- 11 a.m.
Research Interests: Race and Gender Studies; Visual Culture; Panamanian Literature (novela canalera); U.S. White women's travel writing during the Panama Canal Construction and the Panama Canal Zone establishment; West Indian literature, particularly Guadeloupean literature and the works of Maryse Condé; representations of the West Indian Black woman in Panama; Jim Crow narratives beyond the United States; representations of the Mammy figure in the U.S. South; postcards, photography, and ekphrasis; and contemporary collage and visual art by Panamanian West Indian women artists.
Fatemeh Jafariaghdam Mehrabani
PHD student
Graduate employee
French, Italian, Romance Languages
Email: jafaj@uoregon.edu
Office: Friendly, room 27
Office Hours: Wednesdays 12:30 to 14: 30
Research Interests: Feminism in contemporary French literature, feminist theories, history of feminism, colonialism, French grammar
Bre Jones
Spanish PhD Candidate, Graduate Student, Graduate Employee
College of Arts and Sciences, Romance Languages, Spanish, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish Heritage Language Program
Email: brejones@uoregon.edu
Phone: N/A
Office: MacArthur 102
Office Hours: Tuesdays 2:00-3:00pm
Wednesdays 2:00-3:00pm
McArthur Court 102
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Research Interests: Second Language Acquisition and Teaching (SLAT), Pedagogy, Applied Linguistics, Translation and Interpretation (Theory and Practice of Medical Spanish T and I), Sociolinguistics, Psycholinguistics, Heritage Languages (Spanish and American Sign Language), Heritage Language Pedagogy, Service Learning, Affective Filter, Emotion, Gamification, Game-based learning, Deliberate Play.
Andryxs Leal Graterol
College of Arts and Sciences, Romance Languages, Spanish, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: andryxs@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: Thursdays 12:00-2:00 pm McArthur Court 102. Drop-in time or by appointment on Zoom.
Research Interests: Historical novel, narratives of resistance against authoritarian regimes in Venezuela during the 20th and 21st centuries, Latin American studies.
Gloria Macedo Janto
Romance Languages, PhD Candidate (Spanish and Quechua)
Romance Languages, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program, College of Arts and Sciences, Latinx, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: gmacedo@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: Tuesday 10-12 p.m.
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, Italian, Spanish, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: cman@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: Mackenzie 175 Mondays and Tuesdays 1-2 pm
Research Interests: Migration Studies, Global South Studies, Migration Narratives, Transnational Italy
Isabelle Rogers
Graduate Student, PhD, Spanish
Romance Languages, Spanish, College of Arts and Sciences, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages
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
Grace Saxton
MA Student
Graduate Employee
Romance Languages, French, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages, College of Arts and Sciences
Email: gsaxton@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: M 12:00-13:50
Research Interests: Languages in contact, creolization, creole identities, orality
Alexa Smith
College of Arts and Sciences, Romance Languages, Spanish, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: ales@uoregon.edu
Phone: NA
Office: 102 Mac Court
Office Hours: Office Hours: YLC Thurs. 2- 3 p.m.; Zoom Fri. 2- 3 p.m
Research Interests: Spanish-English bilingualism, political science, women's studies, English