Faculty
Alexandre Albert-Galtier
- Title: Associate Professor Emeritus of French
- Phone: 541-346-4026
- Email: alexalga@uoregon.edu
- Office: 322 Friendly Hall
- Office Hours: Fall 2022, Tuesday 3:00-5:00
- Departments: French, Romance Languages
- 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
- Phone: 541-346-4106
- Email: rarias@uoregon.edu
- Office: 16 Friendly Hall
- Office Hours: Tuesdays 9:30-11:30 and by appointment
- Departments: Romance Languages, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program
- Affiliated Departments: Spanish Heritage Language Program
Jeff Contreras
- Title: Senior Instructor of Spanish
- Phone: 541-346-4027
- Email: jcontrer@uoregon.edu
- Office: 22 Friendly Hall
- Office Hours: Mon 9:00-10:00 or by appt.
- Departments: Romance Languages, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program
Amy Costales
- Title: Senior Instructor II of Spanish
- Phone: 541-346-4104
- Email: acostale@uoregon.edu
- Office: 226 Friendly Hall
- Office Hours: Tuesday and Thursday 11:00-12:00 in person or via Teams(send message for Teams)
- Departments: Romance Languages, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program
- Affiliated Departments: Spanish Heritage Language Program
- 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
- Phone: 541-346-4104
- Email: ldarwin@uoregon.edu
- Office: 20 Friendly Hall
- Office Hours: FALL 2022 Martes y jueves (TTh) de 3:30-4:30 p.m.
- Departments: Romance Languages, Romance Languages Major, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program
- Interests: Latinxs in the U.S., Latinx Literature, Estudios culturales
Robert Davis
- Title: Professor of Spanish
- Phone: 541-346-0956
- Email: rldavis@uoregon.edu
- Office: 209 Friendly Hall
- Office Hours: Book a visit here: https://outlook.office365.com/owa/calendar/bookingsrldavisofficehours@uoregon.edu/bookings/
- Departments: College of Arts and Sciences, Language Teaching Studies, Romance Languages, Romance Languages Major, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program
- 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
- Phone: 541-346-4039
- Email: derenzo@uoregon.edu
- Office: 216 Friendly Hall
- Office Hours: Wed. 1-3 (remote)
- Departments: Italian, Romance Languages
Juanita Devereaux
- Title: Senior Instructor of Spanish II
- Phone: 541-346-4050
- Email: uuebner@uoregon.edu
- Office: UO Annex, Ste 6
- Office Hours: Thursdays 8:00-10:00
- Departments: Romance Languages, Spanish
- Affiliated Departments: Yamada Language Center
- Interests: World literature, social movements, Indigenous cultures, Art & Peace Studies
Connie Dickey
- Title: Senior Instructor I of French
- Phone: 541-346-4025
- Email: cldickey@uoregon.edu
- Office: 105D Friendly Hall
- Office Hours: Mon. 2:00-2:50 pm (in 175 MCK), Th. 10:30-11:20 (in 105D Friendly), & by apptmt
- Departments: French, Romance Languages
- 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
- Phone: 541-346-0958
- Email: djiffack@uoregon.edu
- Office: 210 Friendly Hall
- Office Hours: Wednesdays 3:30 - 5:30 pm
- Departments: Romance Languages
- Affiliated Departments: African Studies
Paula Ellister
- Title: Supervisor, First-year Spanish
- Phone: 541-346-0954
- Email: ellister@uoregon.edu
- Office: 227 Friendly Hall
- Office Hours: 10-10:50 Mondays and Tuesdays in 227 Friendly and by appt.
- Departments: Romance Languages, Spanish
Cecilia Enjuto Rangel
- Title: Associate Professor of Spanish
- Phone: 541-346-4045
- Email: enjuto@uoregon.edu
- Office: 323 Friendly Hall
- Office Hours: Thursdays 10am-12pm
- Departments: Romance Languages
- Affiliated Departments: Comparative Literature
Pedro García-Caro
- Title: Associate Professor of Spanish
- Phone: 541-346-5813
- Email: pgcaro@uoregon.edu
- Office: 407 Friendly Hall
- Office Hours: Winter 2023: W. 10am-12pm or by appointment.
- Departments: Comparative Literature, Latin American Studies, OCIAS, Romance Languages, SAIL, Spanish, Translation Studies
- Affiliated Departments: Comparative Literature, 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
Diana Garvin
- Title: Assistant Professor of Italian, Mediterranean Studies
- Phone: 541-346-6984
- Email: dgarvin@uoregon.edu
- Office: 421 Friendly Hall
- Office Hours: Monday, 11:30am-1:30pm
- Departments: Food Studies, Italian, Romance Languages
- Interests: Transnational Italian Studies (East Africa, Brazil), Fascism and Neo-Fascism, Food Studies, Environmental Humanities, Medical Humanities
- Website: Website
Amalia Gladhart
- Title: Professor of Spanish
- Phone: 541-346-0983
- Email: gladhart@uoregon.edu
- Office: 105B Friendly Hall
- Office Hours: Sabbatical leave AY2022-23
- Departments: Romance Languages, Spanish
- Affiliated Departments: Translation Studies
- Interests: Translation Studies (theory and practice), Latin American theater
Evlyn Gould
- Title: Professor Emerita
- Phone: 541-346-4020
- Email: evgould@uoregon.edu
- Office: 224 Friendly Hall
- Departments: Comparative Literature, European Studies, French, Romance Languages
- 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
- Phone: 541-346-4070
- Email: grammon@uoregon.edu
- Office: 417 Friendly Hall
- Office Hours: Wednesdays 3-5pm
- Departments: Romance Languages, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program
- Affiliated Departments: Latin American Studies, Linguistics, Romance Languages, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program
- Interests: Sociocultural Linguistics, Second Language Studies, Linguistic Ethnography, Language Contact, Quechua and Andean Spanish, Linguistic Landscapes
- Website: Website
Paulo Henriquez
- Title: Senior Instructor of Spanish
- Phone: 541-346-3153
- Email: pauloh@uoregon.edu
- Office: 22 Friendly Hall
- Office Hours: Tuesdays 2:00-4:00
- Departments: Romance Languages, Spanish
- Affiliated Departments: Latin American Studies
Gina Herrmann
- Title: Norman H. Brown Faculty Fellow, Professor of Spanish, National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow 2017-18
- Phone: 541-654-2705
- Email: gah@uoregon.edu
- Office: 220 Friendly Hall
- Office Hours: WED 12-2 virtual, please text in advance
- Departments: Romance Languages
- 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
- Phone: 541-346-4058
- Email: nhester@uoregon.edu
- Office: 222 Friendly Hall
- Office Hours: Spring Term 2022: on Zoom Mondays 2-3pm or by appt.
- Departments: European Studies, French, Italian, OCIAS, Romance Languages
- Affiliated Departments: European Studies
Harinder Khalsa
- Title: Senior Instructor II of Italian/YLC Self Study Language Program Coordinator
- Phone: 541-346-1540 (email preferred)
- Email: harinder@uoregon.edu
- Office: 161 McKenzie Hall
- Office Hours: MTW 12:15-12:45 PM or by appointment
- Departments: Italian, Romance Languages
- 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
Kelley Howarth
- Title: Career Faculty in Spanish
- Phone: 541-346-0955
- Email: khowarth@uoregon.edu
- Office: 213 Friendly Hall
- Office Hours: Tuesdays & Wednesdays 10:00-10:50am y por cita
- Departments: Romance Languages, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program
- Affiliated Departments: Latinx
- Interests: Critical pedagogies, language contact and variation, heritage language pedagogy
Sergio Loza
- Title: Assistant Professor of Spanish Linguistics
- Email: sloza@uoregon.edu
- Office: 430 Friendly Hall
- Office Hours: Wednesday 4-5pm via Zoom only (email me for link)
- Departments: Romance Languages, Spanish
- Affiliated Departments: Linguistics
- Interests: Spanish heritage language education, Spanish heritage language pedagogy, linguistics, sociolinguistics, U.S. Spanish, critical language awareness
Karen McPherson
- Title: Professor Emerita of French
- Phone: 541-346-4048
- Email: ksmcpher@uoregon.edu
- Office: 224 Friendly Hall
- Departments: French, Romance Languages, Translation Studies
- 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
- Phone: 541-346-3103
- Email: middlebr@uoregon.edu
- Office: 305 Villard Hall
- Office Hours: F 2022 Weds 2-4 p.m. or by appointment
- Departments: Comparative Literature, European Studies, Romance Languages, Spanish
- Affiliated Departments: Clark Honors College
- 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
- Phone: 541-346-4031
- Email: lmillar@uoregon.edu
- Office: Friendly 406
- Office Hours: Winter 2023: Thursdays 2:00-4:00, and by appointment. In person and Zoom. Zoom ID 748 242 9908
- Departments: African Studies, IRES, Portuguese, Romance Languages, Spanish
- Affiliated Departments: African Studies, Comparative Literature, 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
- Phone: 541-346-4032
- Email: fmoore@uoregon.edu
- Office: 324 Friendly Hall
- Office Hours: Winter 2023: Wednesdays 12h30-2h30
- Departments: Comics and Cartoon Studies, Comparative Literature, European Studies, French, Romance Languages
- Affiliated Departments: Comparative Literature
- Interests: Early European romanticism; Chateaubriand; Staël; European Enlightenment; the French & Haitian Revolutions; French and Francophocultural and literary history; prose poetry; the evolution of the novel; bande dessinées & graphic narratives; blue humanities
Géraldine Poizat-Newcomb
- Title: Senior Instructor II of French
- Phone: 541-346-4049
- Email: gpoizat@uoregon.edu
- Office: 25 Friendly Hall
- Office Hours: MW 12-12:50
- Departments: French, Romance Languages
Gina Psaki
- Title: Professor Emerita of Italian
- Phone: 541-346-4042
- Email: rpsaki@uoregon.edu
- Office: 224 Friendly Hall
- Office Hours: via e-mail: Tues. 7–9 p.m., Wed. 10 a.m. – noon
- Departments: Romance Languages
- 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
- Phone: 541-346-4106
- Email: hquarles@uoregon.edu
- Office: 16 Friendly Hall
- Office Hours: Wednesdays 1:30-3:30
- Departments: Latinx, Romance Languages, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program
- Affiliated Departments: Latinx, Spanish Heritage Language Program
- Interests: Translanguaging, Critical Language Awareness, Sociolinguistics, US Spanish, Decolonizing Pedagogies
Andrew Rothgery
- Title: Senior Instructor II of Spanish
- Phone: 541-346-4057
- Email: andyr@uoregon.edu
- Office: UO Annex, Ste 6
- Office Hours: Tues and Thurs, 3:30-4:30pm
- Departments: Romance Languages, Spanish
- Affiliated Departments: Spanish Heritage Language Program
- Interests: Spanish Heritage Language, social justice, indigenous cultures, Guatemala, Mexico, literature, music and film
Maria 'Bene' Santos
- Title: Senior Instructor 1 of Portuguese
- Phone: 541-346-4052
- Email: benballe@uoregon.edu
- Office: 411 Friendly Hall
- Office Hours: Monday and Wednesday 2:00 to 2:50
- Departments: Portuguese, Romance Languages
- Affiliated Departments: Romance Languages, Yamada Language Center
Jesús Sepúlveda
- Title: Senior Instructor II of Spanish Composition, Creative Writing, and Poetry
- Phone: 541-346-8304
- Email: jsepulve@uoregon.edu
- Office: 424 Friendly Hall
- Office Hours: W 13:00-15:00 hrs.
- Departments: Romance Languages, Spanish
- Affiliated Departments: Latin American Studies
Analisa Taylor
- Title: Associate Professor of Spanish
- Phone: 541-521-9762
- Email: analisa@uoregon.edu
- Office: 326 Friendly Hall
- Office Hours: Fall '22: Fridays 9:00-11:00 am on Zoom or by appointment
- Departments: Romance Languages
- Affiliated Departments: Latinx
- Interests: Culture and Social Movements in Latinx USA and Latin America; Mesoamerican Foodways, Migrations, and Human Rights; Ecology, Culture, Capital, and the State in the Americas
Claudia Ventura
- Title: Senior Instructor II of Italian
- Phone: 541-346-4039
- Email: vencla@uoregon.edu
- Office: 216 Friendly Hall
- Office Hours: Mondays, Fridays and Wednesdays 11-11:45 AM in MCK 175
- Departments: Italian, Romance Languages
David Wacks
- Title: Professor of Spanish: Department Head, Romance Languages
- Phone: 541-346-4029
- Email: wacks@uoregon.edu
- Office: 105C Friendly Hall
- Office Hours: Please email me your availability to set an appointment
- Departments: Romance Languages
- Affiliated Departments: Judaic Studies Program
- Interests: Medieval Iberian literature and culture, Sephardic studies, Mediterranean Studies
- Website: Website
Nathan Whalen
- Title: Senior Instructor II of Spanish
- Phone: 541-346-4257
- Email: natewh@uoregon.edu
- Office: 192H Esslinger Hall
- Office Hours: Tuesday 12-1, Wednesday 1-2
- Departments: Romance Languages, Spanish
Alex Zunterstein
- Title: Senior Instructor II of Spanish & Assistant Head, Romance Languages
- Phone: 541-346-4257
- Email: azunters@uoregon.edu
- Office: 213 Friendly Hall
- Office Hours: Tues 9-11 *only for students enrolled in my SPAN 312 class. Please see shl.uoregon.edu for SHL advising hours
- Departments: Romance Languages, Spanish
- Affiliated Departments: Spanish Heritage Language Program