Humanities
Lauren Polak
Graduate Employee
East Asian Languages, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: lpolak@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: indexicality, role language, language ideology, media depictions of language, linguistic perception
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!
Amanda Powell
Comparative Literature Graduate Student/ GE
PhD Candidate
Comparative Literature
Email: apowell3@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0050
Office: 304 PLC
Office Hours: Spring Term: M 12-1:30pm, W 3:30-5pm
Research Interests: mad studies, 20th-21st century Latinx poetry, British modernism;
Dissertation: Madness as a Disease of Language
Scott L. Pratt
Professor of Philosophy
Philosophy
Email: spratt@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5971
Office: 239 Susan Campbell Hall, 1295 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1295
Office Hours: Office hours for Fall Term 2026 are by appointment and online. To schedule an appointment, use this link (https://calendly.com/spratt-9/office-hours) or contact Pratt by email at spratt@uoregon.edu.
Research Interests: American Philosophy, History of Philosophy, Logic, Philosophy of Education
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: Summer 2026: By appt.
Research Interests: Modernism, Gender Studies, Environmental Criticism, Visual Culture, Digital Humanities, Russian-Italian Cultural Interactions, and Immigrant Arts
Sarah Preston
Assistant Teaching Professor
Dr.
English
Email: spreston@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1520
Office: 210 PLC, 1286 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286
Office Hours: Spring term: Mondays 2 - 3pm; Tuesdays 11:15am - 1:15pm, or by appointment
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
Ava Pugliese
Operations Generalist
Anthropology, Black Studies, Cinema Studies, CLLAS, Creative Writing Program, Geography, History, IRES, Latinx, Native American Studies, Theatre Arts, Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies
Email: avacp@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4198
Office: 275 McKenzie Hall
Forest Pyle
Professor
Comics and Cartoon Studies, English
Email: trespyle@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3928
Office: 270 PLC, 1286 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286
Research Interests: 19th Century British Literary Studies, Comics and Cartoon Studies, Literary and Critical Theory, Poetry and Poetics, Postmodern and Contemporary Literary Studies, Visual Culture
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, Sociolinguistics, US Spanish, Critical Pedagogies
Mark Quigley
Associate Professor
English
Email: mquigley@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1340
Office: 324 PLC, 1286 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1205
Office Hours: Winter Term: Monday 11:30-2:30 on Zoom Meeting Room 470-446-9397 & by appt.
Research Interests: Colonial, Settler Colonial, and Postcolonial Studies, Irish Literary Studies, Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity, Modernism Studies, Literary and Critical Theory, The Novel, Poetry and Poetics, Postmodern and Contemporary Literary Studies, Cultural Studies
Daniel Quintero Plata
PhD Student
German & Scandinavian, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: danielq@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4084
Office: 202 Friendly Hall, University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Office Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays 10:00 - 11:00 pm
Research Interests: Daniel’s research interests also include 20th-century German literature, the representation of technology in literature and film, and the exploration of memory narratives. He has also worked on German Romanticism and the cultural transformations of the Weimar Republic. He is especially interested in how these periods reflect and respond to evolving concepts of human identity, autonomy, and memory, shaped by technological advancements.
Ren Rader
English Graduate Student/ GE
English
Email: rader@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: Thursday and Friday 2:30-4:00 PM
Sanjula Rajat
PhD
GTFF Steward 2023-2025
Philosophy, Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies
Email: srajat@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: online, by appointment (Summer)
Research Interests: Feminist Theory; Decolonial and Postcolonial Theory; Philosophy of Race; Queer Theory; Trans Studies; Anti-Caste Studies
Feba Rasheed
Comparative Literature Graduate Student/ GE
Comparative Literature
Email: frasheed@uoregon.edu
Office: 310 Villard Hall, 5242 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-5242
Research Interests: Ethnography; World literature; Partition Studies; Tradition, Law and Feminism in India
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
Untara Rayeesa
Comparative Literature Graduate Student/ GE
Comparative Literature
Email: urayeesa@uoregon.edu
Office: 310 Villard Hall, 5242 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-5242
Office Hours: Spring Term: MW 1-3pm
Research Interests: Critical Theory, Postcolonial Studies, Anglophone Postcolonial Literature, South Asian Literature and Popular Culture, Women's Writing, Gender and Sexuality Studies
