Humanities
Alex O'Ryan
Graduate Employee, Spanish, MA
Romance Languages
Email: aoryan@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1287
Office: 30 Friendly Hall
Research Interests: Second Language Pedagogy, Linguistics, Sociolinguistics
Honor O'Sullivan
English Graduate Student / GE
English
Email: honoro@uoregon.edu
Office: PLC 214
Office Hours: Fall Term 2026:
Monday: 9:00 - 11:30 AM
Wednesday: 9:00 - 11:30 AM
Friday: 9:00 - 10:00 AM
Also available via Zoom by appointment!
Research Interests: Modernism, 20th Century American Literature, the Harlem Renaissance, Surrealism, Affect Theory, Queer Theory, Visual Culture, Film, Comics
HyeRyoung Ok
Senior Instructor I
Digital Humanities, Cinema Studies
Email: hok@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-7644
Office: 321 Villard Hall, 6223 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Office Hours: Fall 2025: Tuesdays 12-2pm (on Zoom or in-person by appointment)
K Olivar
English Graduate Student / GE
English
Email: kolivar@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1314
Office: 220 PLC, 1286 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286
Office Hours: Fall 2026: Thursdays 12:30-1:30, and by appointment.
Office hours are held via Zoom.
Research Interests: Early Modern / Renaissance Literature, Drama, Disability Studies, Neurodiversity
Leslie Opp-Beckman
Director of Innovative Programs, AEI
American English Institute, Language Teaching Studies
Email: leslieob@uoregon.edu
Yasamin Osqueezadeh
English
Email: yasamino@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Multiethnic Literature, Postcolonial Literature, Southwest Asian Literature
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
Skyler Outler
Philosophy Graduate Student
Philosophy
Email: soutler@uoregon.edu
Office: Susan Campbell Hall 211, Eugene OR 97403
Priscilla Peña Ovalle
Associate Professor
Comics and Cartoon Studies, IRES, Cinema Studies, Latinx
Email: povalle@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0060
Office: 233 Villard Hall, 6223 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Office Hours: By Appointment
Research Interests: Media Studies, Race/Ethnicity, Dance, Mainstream Popular Culture, Media Hairstyles
Lo Owens
ASU4 Faculty Support
Human Physiology, Linguistics, Psychology, Earth Sciences
Email: lowens@uoregon.edu
Office: 936 PLC, 1284 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1284
Minyoung Park
English Graduate Student
English
Email: minyoung@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Modernism, 20th Century Anglophone Literature, The Novel, Medical Humanities, Feminist Theory, Fashion
Sueanne E. Parker
Sr Instructor I
Senior Instructor I
American English Institute
Email: sparker@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3945
Office: 213 Agate Hall, 5212 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-5212
Trish Pashby
Teaching Professor
Language Teaching Studies, Linguistics
Email: pashby@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3945
Office: 169 Straub Hall
Office Hours: September 15 to December 11:
Tuesdays 2:00-3:00, Wednesdays 11:30-12:30, Thursdays 2:00-3:00
and by appointment
Week 1 substitutions: Sept 29 12:00-1:00, Sept 30 11:30-12:30, Oct 1 3:30-4:30 only
No office hours on Nov 11 and Nov 26
Doris Payne
Professor Emerita
African Studies, Arabic Studies, Linguistics
Email: dlpayne@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3894
Office: 271 Straub Hall, 1290 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1290
Office Hours: By appointment only, please email to set up appt.
Tom Payne
Research Associate
Linguistics
Email: tpayne@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Typological morphology and syntax. Mother-tongue based multi-lingual education. Philippine languages and Manchu languages.
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, media studies, ethnography, and oral history