Faculty

Alexandre Albert-Galtier

Title: Associate Professor Emeritus of French
Email: alexalga@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4026
Office: 322 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Not available Fall 2021
Affiliated Departments: French, Romance Languages
Interests: 17th Centuty French Literature, Theater, Arts and Literature: Painters and Writers

Rafael Arias

Title: Senior Instructor I of Spanish
Email: rarias@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4106
Office: 16 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: T 10:00-12:00 and by appointment
Affiliated Departments: Spanish Heritage Language Program

Jeff Contreras

Title: Senior Instructor I of Spanish
Email: jcontrer@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4027
Office: 22 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Mon 2:00-2:50 or by appt.

Amy Costales

Title: Senior Instructor II of Spanish
Email: acostale@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4104
Office: 20 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Monday 12-1 & Tuesday 11-12 via Zoom. E-mail me for link.
Interests: U.S Spanish, Linguistics, Border expression, Latino experience in U.S., K-12 education, children's literature, LatCrit, CRT
Website: Website

Liliana Darwin Lopez

Title: Senior Instructor of Spanish and Spanish Heritage Language, Second Year Supervisor
Additional Title: Maestra de español como segunda lengua y lengua de herencia, Supervisora de Segundo Año
Email: ldarwin@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4104
Office: 20 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Martes y jueves de 4-5 p.m.
Interests: Latinxs in the U.S., Latinx Literature, Estudios culturales

Robert Davis

Title: Professor of Spanish
Additional Title: Director of Language Instruction
Email: rldavis@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0956
Office: 209 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: (Fall 2021) Wednesdays 10:00-11:50 on Zoom: https://uoregon.zoom.us/j/94123717086
Affiliated Departments: French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program
Interests: second language teaching and learning, technology in second language learning, Romance linguistics
Website: Website

Lauretta De Renzo-Huter

Title: Senior Instructor II
Additional Title: First Year Italian Supervisor
Email: derenzo@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4039
Office: 216 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Wed. 1-3 (remote)

Juanita Devereaux

Title: Senior Instructor of Spanish II
Email: uuebner@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4050
Office: UO Annex, Ste 6
Office Hours: Tuesdays 10:00-11:50 online
Affiliated Departments: Yamada Language Center
Interests: World literature, social movements, Indigenous cultures, Art & Peace Studies

Connie Dickey

Title: Senior Instructor I of French
Additional Title: 1st-Year French Supervisor
Email: cldickey@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4025
Office: 105D Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Mon. 3:00-4:00 (in 158 MCK), Th. 10:20-11:20 (in 105D Friendly), & by apptmt
Affiliated Departments: Romance Languages
Interests: 2nd-language learning and teaching; French phonetics, grammar, historical Romance linguistics, & medieval French and Occitan literature

Andre Djiffack

Title: Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies
Email: djiffack@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0958
Office: 210 Friendly Hall
Affiliated Departments: African Studies

Paula Ellister

Title: Supervisor, First-year Spanish
Additional Title: Senior Instructor of Spanish II
Email: ellister@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0954
Office: 227 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: 8:30-10:20 Tuesdays Zoom link (https://uoregon.zoom.us/j/95177898057) Meeting ID: 951 7789 8057

Cecilia Enjuto Rangel

Title: Associate Professor of Spanish
Additional Title: Director of Graduate Studies
Email: enjuto@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4045
Office: 323 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Thursday 10am-12pm (Week 1 office hrs are cancelled)
Affiliated Departments: Comparative Literature Department, Latinx

Pedro García-Caro

Title: Associate Professor of Spanish
Email: pgcaro@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5813
Office: 407 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: W 1-3pm or by appointment.
Affiliated Departments: Comparative Literature Department, Latin American Studies, Translation Studies
Interests: Nationalism, Postmodernity, Postcolonial Studies, Environmental Studies, US Hispanic Literatures, Mexican Literature, Border Literature, Comparative American Studies, Transatlantic Studies, Satire, Drama, Translation
Website: Website

Leonardo Garcia-Pabon

Title: Professor Emeriti
Additional Title: Professor of Spanish
Email: lgarcia@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4024
Office: 223 Friendly Hall
Affiliated Departments: Latin American Studies
Website: Website

Diana Garvin

Title: Assistant Professor of Italian, Mediterranean Studies
Email: dgarvin@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-6984
Office: 421 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Tuesday, 11:30am-1:30pm
Interests: Modern History of Southern Europe and East Africa, Fascism and Neo-Fascism, Feminist and Postcolonial Theory, Food Studies, Film Studies
Website: Website

Amalia Gladhart

Title: Professor of Spanish
Additional Title: Director of Graduate Studies, Romance Languages
Email: gladhart@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0983
Office: 105B Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Fall 2021: M 12-1 drop-in; W 12-1 by appointment
Affiliated Departments: Translation Studies
Interests: Translation Studies (theory and practice), Latin American theater

Evlyn Gould

Title: Professor Emerita
Additional Title: College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor in Humanities
Email: evgould@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4020
Office: 224 Friendly Hall
Affiliated Departments: European Studies, Judaic Studies Program
Interests: nineteenth century French studies,Jewish studies,European studies,interdisciplinary studies in literature, music, dance

Devin Grammon

Title: Assistant Professor of Spanish Sociolinguistics
Email: grammon@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4070
Office: 417 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Wednesdays 3:00-5:00pm
Affiliated Departments: Latin American Studies, Linguistics, Romance Languages, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program
Interests: Sociocultural Linguistics, Second Language Studies, Quechua and Andean Spanish
Website: Website

Paulo Henriquez

Title: Senior Instructor I of Spanish
Email: pauloh@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3153
Office: 003 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays 2:00 pm-3:00 pm (via Zoom)
Affiliated Departments: Latin American Studies

Gina Herrmann

Title: Norman H. Brown Faculty Fellow, Professor of Spanish, National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow 2017-18
Email: gah@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-654-2705
Office: 220 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: WED 12-2 virtual, please text in advance
Affiliated Departments: Cinema Studies Program, European Studies, Judaic Studies Program
Interests: Communist and Leftist Studies, Holocaust Studies, Spanish Memory Studies

Nathalie Hester

Title: Associate Professor of Italian and French, National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow 2019-20
Additional Title: Director of European Studies
Email: nhester@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4058
Office: 222 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Fall Term 2021: on Zoom Wednesdays 9:30-11am or by appt.
Affiliated Departments: European Studies

Kelley Howarth

Title: Career Faculty in Spanish
Additional Title: Spanish Heritage Language Program Coordinator
Email: khowarth@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0955
Office: 213 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Thursday 2-4pm & por cita individual
Affiliated Departments: Romance Languages Major

Harinder Khalsa

Title: Senior Instructor II of Italian/YLC SSLP Coordinator
Email: harinder@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1540 (email preferred)
Office: UO Annex, Ste 6
Office Hours: M 2:30-3:30 pm or by appointment
Affiliated Departments: Romance Languages, Yamada Language Center
Interests: Italian language and culture, Turkish language and culture, Less Commonly Taught Languages, second language acquisition, teaching and teacher training.
Website: Website

Massimo Lollini

Title: Professor Emeritus of Italian
Email: maxiloll@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0957
Office: 325 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: By appointment: write maxiloll@uoregon.edu
Affiliated Departments: Comparative Literature Department
Interests: Humanisms, More-than-Human-Humanism and Ecocriticism, Digital Culture and New Media, Digital Philology, Mediterranean Studies, Italian and European literature and theory.
Website: Website

Sergio Loza

Title: Assistant Professor of Spanish Linguistics
Additional Title: Director of the Spanish Heritage Language Program
Email: sloza@uoregon.edu
Office: 430 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Wednesday 4-5pm via Zoom only (email me for link)
Affiliated Departments: Linguistics
Interests: Spanish heritage language education, Spanish heritage language pedagogy, linguistics, sociolinguistics, U.S. Spanish, critical language awareness

Bronwen Maxson

Title: Associate Librarian
Additional Title: Coordinator, Undergraduate Engagement & Instructional Services; Subject Specialist for Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin American Studies
Email: bmaxson@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3069
Office: UO Libraries
Office Hours: <a href="https://uoregon.libcal.com/appointments?u=54969">Schedule an appointment <a>
Interests: Open Access Scholarship, Information Literacy Practices of Spanish Speakers; Critical Pedagogy

Karen McPherson

Title: Professor Emerita of French
Email: ksmcpher@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4048
Office: 224 Friendly Hall
Interests: francophone literature (Quebec & Caribbean), translation theory and practice, women's writing, gender studies, autobiography, postcolonial studies

Leah Middlebrook

Title: Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Spanish
Email: middlebr@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3103
Office: 305 Villard Hall
Office Hours: Fall 2021: by appointment
Interests: poetry and poetics; comparative modernities; critical race studies; early modern literature and culture of Spain, the Spanish Americas, France and Great Britain

Lanie Millar

Title: Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese
Email: lmillar@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4031
Office Hours: Tuesdays 9:30-11:30 on Zoom and by appointment. Please email for Zoom link.
Affiliated Departments: African Studies, Comparative Literature Department, IRES, Latin American Studies
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

Title: Associate Professor of French
Email: fmoore@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4032
Office: 324 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: On Leave Until Spring 22
Affiliated Departments: Comics and Cartoon Studies, European Studies
Interests: Prose poetry; European Enlightenment; the French & Haitian Revolutions; ; the evolution of the novel; early European romanticism; Chateaubriand; Staël; French cultural and literary history; bande dessinées & graphic narratives; blue humanities.

Géraldine Poizat-Newcomb

Title: Senior Instructor II of French
Email: gpoizat@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4049
Office: 25 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: MW 12-12:50

Amanda Powell

Title: Senior Lecturer II Emerita of Spanish
Additional Title: Poet & translator
Email: apowell@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0953
Office: 105 Friendly Hall
Affiliated Departments: Comparative Literature Department
Interests: Early modern Hispanic women writers: secular & religious, literary translation studies (theory & practice), queer theory, creative writing, our next conversation in class!

Gina Psaki

Title: Professor Emerita of Italian
Additional Title: Professor, Romance Languages
Email: rpsaki@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4042
Office: 224 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: via e-mail: Tues. 7–9 p.m., Wed. 10 a.m. – noon
Affiliated Departments: Humanities Program
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

Heather Quarles

Title: Senior Instructor II of Spanish
Email: hquarles@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4106
Office: 16 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Wed. 10:30a-12:30p or by appointment
Affiliated Departments: Latinx

Sergio Rigoletto

Title: Associate Professor of Cinema Studies and Italian
Email: srigolet@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4033
Office: 424 Friendly Hall
Affiliated Departments: Comparative Literature Department, European Studies

Andrew Rothgery

Title: Senior Instructor II of Spanish
Additional Title: Head Undergraduate Advisor for Romance Languages
Email: andyr@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4057
Office: UO Annex, Ste 6
Office Hours: Monday 11am-12pm; Wednesday 2-3pm

Maria 'Bene' Santos

Title: Senior Instructor 1 of Portuguese
Additional Title: Portuguese Language Supervisor
Email: benballe@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4052
Office: 411 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Monday and Wednesday 2:00 to 3:30
Affiliated Departments: Romance Languages, Yamada Language Center

Jesús Sepúlveda

Title: Senior Instructor II of Spanish Composition, Creative Writing, and Poetry
Email: jsepulve@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-8304
Office: 424 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: On Sabbatical Leave - AY 2021-2022
Affiliated Departments: Latin American Studies

Jeffrey Staiger

Title: Senior Librarian
Additional Title: Specialist in English, French, Italian, Philosophy & Classics
Email: jstaiger@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1897
Office: 291J Knight Library
Office Hours: <a href="https://uoregon.libcal.com/appointments/jstaiger">Schedule an appointment <a>
Interests: Libraries and Literary Culture; The History of the Book; Scholarly Communication; Contemporary Fiction; Literary Theory

Analisa Taylor

Title: Associate Professor of Spanish
Email: analisa@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-521-9762
Office: 326 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Mondays 1:30 to 3:20 pm and by appt. in 326 Friendly Hall
Affiliated Departments: Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies
Interests: Latin American cultural production & social movements; race, gender, sexuality, and decolonization; Mesoamerican foodways & diasporas; transborder im/migrant rights, food sovereignty, & environmental justice
Website: Website

Claudia Ventura

Title: Senior Instructor I of Italian
Additional Title: Second Year Supervisor
Email: vencla@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4039
Office: 216 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Wednesdays 11-11:50am, in Friendly 216 AND Mondays 15-15:50pm, MCK 175

David Wacks

Title: Professor of Spanish: Department Head, Romance Languages
Email: wacks@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4029
Office: 105C Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Please email me your availability to set an appointment
Affiliated Departments: Romance Languages
Interests: Medieval Iberian literature and culture, Sephardic studies, Mediterranean Studies
Website: Website

Nathan Whalen

Title: Senior Instructor II of Spanish
Email: natewh@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4257
Office: 192H Esslinger Hall
Office Hours: Friday 10-12

Melanie Williams

Title: Senior Instructor II of French, Head UG Advisor
Email: melaniew@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0955
Office: 213 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Leave of Absence 21-22

Alex Zunterstein

Title: Senior Instructor II of Spanish, Assistant Head
Email: azunters@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4257
Office: 6 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Tues 9-11 on Zoom. Please email for link. In person by appointment only
Affiliated Departments: Spanish Heritage Language Program

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