Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages

Schnitzer School Graduate employee

Alejandro Acero Ayuda

Graduate Employee, Spanish, PhD ABD

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

Email: aaceroay@uoregon.edu

Office Hours: Hours: Mondays & Wednesdays 9:00-10:00am / Tuesdays & Thursdays 1:00-2:00pm or by appointment.

Research Interests: Sociolinguistics, Heritage Speakers, Second Language Acquisition, Bilingualism, Technology and Education, Endangered Languages and Language Revitalization (Ladino)

Ryan Baker

RL PhD Candidate

Graduate Employee

College of Arts and Sciences, French, Romance Languages, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages

Email: rlba@uoregon.edu

Office Hours: Tuesday and Thursday from 11am to noon

Research Interests: Inter-War Literature and Rhetoric, Vichy France, 20th Century French and Spanish Film, Enlightenment Literature, Colonial/Post-Colonial Education

Omar Barahona Barahona

Graduate Employee, PhD Candidate

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

Email: obarahon@uoregon.edu

Office Hours: Mon/Wed 11:00 - 11:50 (175 MCK)

Research Interests: Latin American Cultural Studies, Documentary Film, Agrarian Movements

Gabriel José Carrión Pérez

Graduate Employee

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

Email: gcarrion@uoregon.edu

Phone: 4582619476

Office Hours: Wednesday and Thursday at noon.

Research Interests: Blue Humanities, Environmental Cultural Studies, Literature, Cinema.

Grecia Chirinos Delgado

Assistant Teaching Professor

Global Studies, Latin American Studies, Latinx, Romance Languages, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages

Email: chirinos@uoregon.edu

Office: PLC 101, 1233 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403

Office Hours: Tuesday and Thursday 11:30am-12:30pm and by appointment

Research Interests: U.S. Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Education, Critical Language Awareness, Sociolinguistics, Critical Pedagodies

Alex Colombo

PhD Student

Graduate Employee

German & Scandinavian, Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages

Email: acolombo@uoregon.edu

Research Interests: Feminist Theories & Philosophy, Holocaust Studies, Fascism Studies, Gender, Sexuality, Queer & Trans Studies, Feminist Epistemology, Political Philosophy, Decolonial Philosophy, Critical Theory

Teppei Fukuda

Graduate Student (doctoral)

East Asian Languages, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages

Email: tfukuda@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-4084

Office: Friendly Hall 114, University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403

Research Interests: Japanese aesthetics related to seasons, Japanese poetry, Manga, Japanese Onomatopoeia, Translation

Katelyn Gunther

Graduate Student

Global Studies, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages

Email: kgunthe8@uoregon.edu

Viana Hara

PhD Graduate Candidate , Romance Languages

Spanish Instructor

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

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.

Fatemeh Jafariaghdam Mehrabani

PHD student

Graduate employee

French, Italian, Romance Languages

Email: jafaj@uoregon.edu

Office: Friendly, room 27

Office Hours: Wednesdays 12:30 to 14: 30

Research Interests: Feminism in contemporary French literature, feminist theories, history of feminism, colonialism, French grammar

Huiqiong Jiang

Chinese, East Asian Languages, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages, College of Arts and Sciences

Email: huiqiong@uoregon.edu

Bre Jones

Spanish PhD Candidate, Graduate Student, Graduate Employee

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

Email: brejones@uoregon.edu

Phone: N/A

Office: MacArthur 102

Office Hours: Tuesdays 2:00-3:00pm Wednesdays 2:00-3:00pm McArthur Court 102 Sign up for a time: https://outlook.office.com/bookwithme/user/d5a8683aa12848499c462f1d3de87cc2@uoregon.edu/meetingtype/nvFGTQtzwEacaFPqtvKbXQ2?anonymous&ep=mlink

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.

Yeon Hui Kim

PhD Student

East Asian Languages, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages

Email: yeonhuik@uoregon.edu

Office Hours: Thursday 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Research Interests: Korean Linguistics

Filip Kletnikov

PhD Candidate

Graduate Employee

German & Scandinavian, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages

Email: filipk@uoregon.edu

Office Hours: By appointment (Location: Yamada Language Center)

Research Interests: Nihilism, Anarchism, Poetry, Expressionism, Romanticism and Decadence, Female Mysticism

Andryxs Leal Graterol

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

Email: andryxs@uoregon.edu

Office Hours: Thursdays 12:00-2:00 pm McArthur Court 102. 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.

Xiaoyu Liu

Ph.D. Candidate

East Asian Languages, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages

Email: xliu12@uoregon.edu

Research Interests: Chinese Linguistics, Psycholinguistics (eye-tracking, self-paced reading), second language acquisition, bilingualism & Chinese language pedagogy