Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages

Schnitzer School Faculty

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: F 2026 - by appointment

Research Interests: poetry and poetics; comparative modernities; imperium studies; critical race studies; Cervantes; early modern literature and culture of Spain, the Spanish Americas, France and Great Britain

Lanie Millar

Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese

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: Agate Hall 202E, 1233 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403

Office Hours: Fall, 2026 MW 1:30-2:30, 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

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: Fall 2026 by appt. 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

Haruka Nagao

Assistant Professor

Global Studies, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages

Email: hnagao@uoregon.edu

Office: McArthur Court 104B, 5206 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403

Research Interests: health governance, Africa-China relations, gender, public opinion, soft power diplomacy, East Asia

Naoko Nakadate

Senior Instructor II, Japanese Language

East Asian Languages, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages

Email: naoko@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-0047

Office: PLC 105, 1248 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403

Office Hours: Fall 2026: 1:45-3:15 TR and by appointment

Dorothee Ostmeier

Professor of German, and Folklore and Public Culture

Folklore Program, German & Scandinavian, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages

Email: ostmeier@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-4145

Office: 204D Agate Hall, 1250 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1205

Office Hours: Tue/Thu 1:20 to 2 PM GSH 103 Afterwards Villard until 3:30 PM and by appointment

Research Interests: German literature and culture of the 18th through 20th century

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: 213 Agate Hall, 1233 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403

Office Hours: Fall 2026 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, cinema and 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: McArthur Court 001A, 1233 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403

Office Hours: MW 11-11:50

Jenifer Presto

Associate Professor of Comparative Literature

Comparative Literature, Digital Humanities, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies

Email: presto@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-485-7400

Office: 346 PLC

Office Hours: Fall 2026: Tues. and Thurs. 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. or by appt.

Research Interests: Modernism, Gender Studies, Environmental Criticism, Visual Culture, Digital Humanities, Russian-Italian Cultural Interactions, and Immigrant Arts

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; call me via Teams

Office: PLC 103

Office Hours: Mondays and Wednesdays 4-5pm or by appointment

Research Interests: Translanguaging, Critical Language Awareness, Critical Sociolinguistics, US Spanish, Critical Pedagogies

Lara Ravitch

Teaching Professor

Russian Language Coordinator & Director of Undergraduate Studies

Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages

Email: ravitch@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-4077

Office: 202A Agate Hall, 1262 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403

Office Hours: By appointment

Research Interests: Language & Identity, Universal Design for Learning, Experiential Learning

Andrew Rothgery

Teaching Professor of Spanish

Romance Languages, Spanish, College of Arts and Sciences, Spanish Heritage Language Program, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages

Email: andyr@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-4057

Office: UO Annex, Ste 6, 1233 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1233

Office Hours: Tues & Wed, 3-4pm

Research Interests: Social justice; indigenous languages and cultures; the Maya; testimonial; Guatemala; Mexico; creative writing; argumentative writing; subversive literature, music and film; protest music; guitar; languages and cultures in contact; heritage languages; Chicano literature; literature; oral histories; stories; human intelligence; humanism.

Jesús Sepúlveda

Teaching Professor of Spanish Composition, Creative Writing, and Poetry

Romance Languages, Spanish, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages

Email: jsepulve@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-8304

Office: UO Annex 118, 1233 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403

Office Hours: T&Th 3:45-4:45pm and by appt

Research Interests: Poetry, Latin American and Spanish Literature, World Literature, Creative Writing, Shamanism, Avant-Garde and Post Avant-Garde Movements, Intoxicated Texts, Green Anarchy, Southern Cone, Critical Theory, Global Studies

Michael Stern

Associate Professor of German & Scandinavian

Director of Undergraduate Studies Scandinavian

German & Scandinavian, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages

Email: mjstern@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-4126

Office: 112B Mac Court, 1250 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403

Office Hours: Spring 2026, M 12-1 and by appointment

Research Interests: Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Western European Intellectual History, Africana philosophy, literature, and film, 19th Century Scandinavian Literature and film, decolonial thought

Analisa Taylor

Associate Professor of Spanish

Romance Languages, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages

Email: analisa@uoregon.edu

Phone: **********

Office: 129 McKenzie Hall (Yamada Language Center)

Office Hours: Mondays and Wednesdays 2:30 to 3:30 pm and by appointment

Research Interests: Culture and Social Movements inLatinx USA and Latin America; Mesoamerican Foodways, Migrations, and Human Rights; Ecology, Culture, Capital, and the State in Mexico and the Americas

Yosa Vidal

Assistant Teaching Professor

Spanish

Romance Languages, Spanish, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages

Email: yosav@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-4497

Office: McArthur Court 004A, 1233 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403

Office Hours: M-W 9:00-10:00

Research Interests: Latin American Literature, Aesthetics and Politics, Comic Studies, Creative Writing.

Matthias Vogel

Teaching Professor and Language Coordinator'

Director of Undergraduate Studies, German

German & Scandinavian, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages

Email: matvogel@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-337-2634

Office: 220B Agate Hall

Office Hours: Winter 2025: Mo/We 11:00 AM to 11:50 AM and by appointment

Research Interests: German language, culture, and pedagogy; Globalization and Global Engagement Issues; Study Abroad; Identity Discourses and Multiculturalism; Food Studies; Higher Education Organizational Leadership; Academic Residential Communities and Residential Life