Romance Languages
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
Bre Jones
Spanish PhD Candidate, Graduate Student, Graduate Employee
College of Arts and Sciences, Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish
Email: brejones@uoregon.edu
Phone: N/A
Office: MacArthur 102
Office Hours: Tuesdays 1:00-2:00pm<br />
Wednesdays 1:00-2:00pm<br />
McArthur Court 102
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.
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.
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, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program, Yamada Language Center
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
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, 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
Gloria Macedo Janto
Romance Languages, PhD Candidate (Spanish and Quechua)
Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program, College of Arts and Sciences, Latinx
Email: gmacedo@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: Wed 3 - 5 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, School of Global Studies and Languages, Italian, Spanish
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
Graduate Employee, RL, PHD
Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish
Email: amarin5@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: Mondays & Wednesdays 11am-12m
Research Interests: Postcolonial & Decolonial studies, Migration 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, School of Global Studies and Languages, 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
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, School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: nwee@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: Monday 2PM-3PM, Thursday 11AM-12PM
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: UO Annex 118
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
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, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program, Yamada Language Center
Email: jmor@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-2579
Office Hours: 8:00a - 4:30p
McRae Naayers
Faculty Support Coordinator
African Studies, Asian Studies, East Asian Languages, European Studies, Food Studies, German & Scandinavian, Global Studies, Ichishkiin Language, Latin American Studies, Middle East and North African Studies, Modern Hebrew Language, Northwest Indian Language Institute, Romance Languages, Romance Languages Major, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, School of Global Studies and Languages, Yamada Language Center
Email: mnaayers@uoregon.edu
Office: 1787 Agate Street, Suite 104, 1245 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Office Hours: Mon-Fri 8:30-5:00
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
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, 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
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!