Humanities

Eric Pederson

Associate Professor, Retired
Linguistics
Phone: 541-346-3900
Office: 375 Straub Hall
Research Interests: Semantic typology, gesture, psycholinguistics, Dravidian linguistics

Paul Peppis

Professor, emeritus
Comics and Cartoon Studies, English
Research Interests: Comics and Cartoon Studies, Cultural Studies, Irish Literary Studies, Modernism Studies, Poetry and Poetics, Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity, The Novel

Daniel Peres Santos

PhD
GE
Philosophy
Office Hours: Fridays, 12-00pm-2:00pm. SCH 211B.
Research Interests: 19th and 20th Century European Thought, Ancient Philosophy, Logic, Philosophy of Religion, Lusophone Philosophy

Gabriela Pérez Báez

Associate Professor
Linguistics, Language Teaching Studies, Latinx
Office: 263 Straub Hall, 1290 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1290
Office Hours: Thursdays 10am - 12pm (or by appointment) Please sign up for a time slot here: https://tinyurl.com/5n77s5dw
Research Interests: Linguistic diversity, multi/plurilingualism, linguistic rights, Indigenous languages, language revitalization

Genevieve Pfeiffer

ESSP Graduate Student / GE
English, Environmental Studies
Office Hours: MF 8-9:30am & by appt.
Research Interests: Environmental humanities, artificial intelligence (AI), data ethics, multispecies studies, feminist science and technology studies, data governmentality, data infrastructures, reproductive justice, digital humanities, poetry and poetics, 20th and 21st century literatures

Maddie Pflueger

English Graduate Student / REL GE
English, Religious Studies
Phone: 541-346-1314
Office: 220 PLC, 1286 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286
Office Hours: Spring Term: MW 1:30-3pm
Research Interests: Graphic novels, Memoir, Disability studies, Medical humanities, Jewish literature & culture,

Alissa Phillips

Instructor
Instructor, Narrative (Fiction) Production
Cinema Studies
Office: 335 Villard Hall, 6223 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403

Whitney Phillips

Associate Professor of Information Politics and Media Ethics
John L. Hulteng Endowed Chair in Media Ethics and Responsibility
Folklore Program, SOJC, SOJC-Media Studies Undergrad, SOJC-Media Studies Master's, SOJC-Media Studies PhD
Office: 202 Allen Hall
Research Interests: US politics and popular culture, media ethics, media history, public debate and controversy, humor studies, religion and politics, rightwing media cultures, moral panics, conspiratorial belief, narrative and identity, true crime media

Lauren C. Pinchin

Associate Director, ASU 5
Black Studies, CLLAS, Creative Writing Program, History, IRES, Latinx, Native American Studies, Theatre Arts, Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies, Cinema Studies, Anthropology, Geography
Phone: 541-346-4806
Office: 275B McKenzie Hall, 1288 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1288

Helmut Plant

Associate Professor Emeritus
German & Scandinavian, SAIL
Phone: 541-344-0748
Office Hours: by appointment

Géraldine Poizat-Newcomb

Senior Instructor II of French
French, Romance Languages, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages
Phone: 541-346-4049
Office: McArthur Court 001A, 1233 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Office Hours: MW 11-11:50

Lauren Polak

Graduate Employee
East Asian Languages, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages
Research Interests: indexicality, role language, language ideology, media depictions of language, linguistic perception

Michelle Politiski

MFA Student
Creative Writing Program
Office Hours: 4-5 pm Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, or by appointment

Leopold Poulain

Philosophy
Office Hours: Thursdays from 10:00-12:00 in Susan Campbell Hall (room 221).
Research Interests: Pre-analytic American philosophy (esp. William James's early psychology, thematization of the stream of consciousness, and his later philosophy of radical empiricism). Phenomenology (esp. Maurice Merleau-Ponty's account of perceptual experience and critique of the Cartesian ontology of the object). Film (esp. Pasolini, Cassavetes, and Truffaut).

Amanda Powell

Senior Lecturer II Emerita of Spanish
Poet & translator
Romance Languages, Spanish
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
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
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
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

Sarah Preston

Assistant Teaching Professor
Dr.
English
Phone: 541-346-1520
Office: 210 PLC, 1286 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286
Office Hours: Fall term: Mondays 2 - 3pm; Tuesdays 12pm - 2pm, or by appointment

Andie Pruett

MFA Student
Creative Writing Program
Office Hours: Tuesdays/Thursdays: 9am-10am, 11:30am-12pm or by appointment. Office hours will be held in my office, PLC 221. I am also happy to meet over Zoom.