Romance Languages
Jonathan Knight
Operations Coordinator
African Studies, Asian Studies, College of Arts and Sciences, East Asian Languages, European Studies, Food Studies, German & Scandinavian, Global Health Program, Global Studies, Ichishkiin Language, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latin American Studies, Middle East and North African Studies, Native American Studies, Northwest Indian Language Institute, Portuguese, Romance Languages, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program, Yamada Language Center, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: jknight6@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0951
Office: 106 Agate Hall, 1787 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Office Hours: 8:30-5, M-Th
Andryxs Leal Graterol
College of Arts and Sciences, Romance Languages, Spanish, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: andryxs@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays 11:00 am - 12:00 pm, 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.
Massimo Lollini
Professor Emeritus of Italian
Comparative Literature, Italian, Romance Languages
Email: maxiloll@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0957
Office: 325 Friendly Hall, 1233 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1205
Research Interests: Humanisms, More-than-Human-Humanism and Ecocriticism, Digital Culture and New Media, Digital Philology, Mediterranean Studies, Italian and European literature and theory.
Sergio Loza
Assistant Professor of Spanish Linguistics
Director of the Spanish Heritage Language Program
Romance Languages, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages, Latinx
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
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: Friday 4- 6 p.m. or by appointment
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
Alejandro Marín
RL PHD Student, GE
Romance Languages, Spanish, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: amarin5@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: Mondays & Wednesdays 11am -1pm
Research Interests: Decolonial studies, Migration & Border studies; Narratives from the Hispanophone Caribbean & Equatorial-Guinea.
Robbie Marshall
Graduate Coordinator | ASU 1 - Schnitzer School of Global Studies & Languages
College of Arts and Sciences, African Studies, Asian Studies, Chinese, East Asian Languages, European Studies, French, German & Scandinavian, Global Studies, Italian, Japanese, Judaic Studies Program, Korean, Middle East and North African Studies, Portuguese, Romance Languages, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: robertm1@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0195
Office: 106 Agate Hall, 1245 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Office Hours: Tuesday - Friday | 8:30 am - 4:30 pm | Monday Remote
Nicole Mésange
Graduate Student, French
Graduate Employee, French
French, Romance Languages, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: nwee@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: Wednesday and Friday 11:30AM-12:30PM and by appointment
Leah Middlebrook
Professor of Comparative Literature and Spanish
Director, Oregon Humanities Center (OHC)
Comparative Literature, Romance Languages, Spanish, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: middlebr@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3103
Office: 355 PLC Hall
Office Hours: W 2026 Tuesdays 2 p.m. - 3 p.m. & 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, Spanish, College of Arts and Sciences, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: lmillar@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4031
Office Hours: Winter, 2026:<br />
Thursdays, 9:30-11:30 in Agate 202e, and by appointment.
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, College of Arts and Sciences, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: fmoore@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4032
Office: UO Annex 118
Office Hours: Winter 2026: Mon-Weds 12-1 pm 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
Jordan Morris
Office Generalist, ASU 1
African Studies, Asian Studies, Chinese, College of Arts and Sciences, East Asian Languages, European Studies, Food Studies, French, German & Scandinavian, Global Studies, Ichishkiin Language, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latin American Studies, Middle East and North African Studies, Northwest Indian Language Institute, Portuguese, Romance Languages, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program, Yamada Language Center, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: jmor@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-2579
Office Hours: 8:00a - 4:30p
Mariyem Mounir
Graduate Program Assistant – ASU 1
African Studies, Asian Studies, East Asian Languages, European Studies, Food Studies, French, German & Scandinavian, Global Studies, Italian, Japanese, Judaic Studies Program, Korean, Latin American Studies, Middle East and North African Studies, Romance Languages, Romance Languages Major, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: mariyem@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0028
Office Hours: MTWR 8:30am-4:30pm [Remote Fridays]
Alex O'Ryan
Graduate Employee, Spanish, MA
Romance Languages
Email: aoryan@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1359
Office: 30 Friendly Hall
Research Interests: Second Language Pedagogy, Linguistics, Sociolinguistics
Eleanor Paynter
Assistant Professor
Italian, Migration, and Global Media Studies
Romance Languages, Italian, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: epaynter@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: Tuesdays, 2:00-4:00pm and by appointment
Research Interests: media and politics of migration, asylum and migrant rights, migration in Europe, Africa-Europe mobilities, 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, Schnitzer 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
Amanda Powell
Senior Lecturer II Emerita of Spanish
Poet & translator
Romance Languages, Spanish
Email: apowell@uoregon.edu
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
Email: rpsaki@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4042
Office: 224 Friendly Hall, 1233 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1233
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
Heather Quarles
Teaching Professor of Spanish
Romance Languages, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program, College of Arts and Sciences, Latinx, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages
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