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 9:30-11:30 and by appointment
- Affiliated Departments: Spanish Heritage Language Program
Jeff Contreras
- Title: Senior Instructor of Spanish
- Email: jcontrer@uoregon.edu
- Phone: 541-346-4027
- Office: 22 Friendly Hall
- Office Hours: Mon 9:00-10:00 or by appt.
Amy Costales
- Title: Senior Instructor II of Spanish
- Email: acostale@uoregon.edu
- Phone: 541-346-4104
- Office: 226 Friendly Hall
- Office Hours: Monday and Wednesday 1:00-2:00 in person or via Teams
- 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: SPRING 2022 Martes y jueves (TTh) 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: Book a visit here: https://outlook.office365.com/owa/calendar/bookingsrldavisofficehours@uoregon.edu/bookings/
- 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
- 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. 8:45-9:35 (in 175 MCK), Th. 10:30-11:20 (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
- Office Hours: Thursdays 2:00 - 3:45 pm
- 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: 11-11:50 Mondays and Tuesdays in 227 Friendly and by appt.
Cecilia Enjuto Rangel
- Title: Associate Professor of Spanish
- 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: Monday, 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: Spring 22: 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 4027
- Office: 22 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: Spring Term 2022: on Zoom Mondays 2-3pm 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: Tuesdays 3:00-5:00pm & Wednesdays 12:30-2:30pm
- Affiliated Departments: Spanish Heritage Language Program
Harinder Khalsa
- Title: Senior Instructor II of Italian/YLC Self Study Language Program Coordinator
- Email: harinder@uoregon.edu
- Phone: 541-346-1540 (email preferred)
- Office: UO Annex, Ste 6
- Office Hours: TW 10:00-10:45 am 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: Friendly 406
- Office Hours: Spring, 2022: Wednesdays 12:30-1:30, Thursdays 10:30-11:30 on Zoom. Meeting ID 748 242 9908 or please email for 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 Sabbatical Research Leave until Sept. 15, 2022
- Affiliated Departments: Comics and Cartoon Studies, European Studies
- 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
- Email: gpoizat@uoregon.edu
- Phone: 541-346-4049
- Office: 25 Friendly Hall
- Office Hours: MW 11-11:50
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: Tuesdays 2-4pm on Teams
- Affiliated Departments: Latinx, Spanish Heritage Language Program
- Interests: Translanguaging, Critical Language Awareness, Sociolinguistics, US Spanish, Decolonizing Pedagogies
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 and Wednesday, 3:30-4:30pm
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
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: Tuesday 12 to 2, or by appointment
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