Romance Languages
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.
Paulo Henriquez
Senior Instructor of Spanish
Second Year Supervisor
Romance Languages, Spanish, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: pauloh@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3153
Office: McArthur Court 029B, 1233 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Office Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 11:00-12:00 # 029B McArthur Court, additional appointments available by email.
Gina Herrmann
Professor of Spanish
Romance Languages, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: gah@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-654-2705
Office Hours: Monday 10-12 via Zoom, please text in advance
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Research Interests: Communist and Leftist Studies, Holocaust Studies, Spanish Memory Studies
Nathalie Hester
Giustina Family Associate Professor
French, Italian, Romance Languages, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: nhester@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4058
Office: McArthur Court 112A, 1233 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Office Hours: Fall 2025: Thursdays 2-3:30pm or by appointment
Kelley Howarth
Teaching Professor in Spanish
Romance Languages, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program, College of Arts and Sciences, Latinx, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: khowarth@uoregon.edu
Office: 103 PLC
Office Hours: Tuesdays 10-12 & by appt.
Research Interests: Spanish language contact and variation, heritage language pedagogy, critical pedagogies, art.