Romance Languages

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

Marina Peñalosa Montero

Graduate Employee, Spanish, PhD Candidate
Latin American Studies, Romance Languages, Spanish
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
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
Phone: 541-346-4049
Office: 25 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: MW 12-12:50

Amanda Powell

Senior Lecturer II Emerita of Spanish
Poet & translator
Romance Languages, Spanish
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
Phone: 541-346-4042
Office: 224 Friendly Hall
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