Graduate Students
Alejandro Acero Ayuda
- Title: Graduate Employee, Spanish, PhD
- Email: aaceroay@uoregon.edu
- Phone: 541-346-4021
- Office: 192K Esslinger
- Office Hours: Hours: M-W, 12:00 -1:00 pm or by appointment
- Interests: Sociolinguistics, Heritage Speakers, Second Language Acquisition, Bilingualism, Technology and Education, Endangered Languages and Language Revitalization
Sarah Agou
- Title: Graduate Employee, RL
- Email: sagou@uoregon.edu
- Office: Esslinger 192E
- Office Hours: Thursdays, 1:45-3:45pm, and by appointment
- Interests: Indigenous Literature, Caribbean Literature, Feminist Theory, Women's Writing, Decolonial Studies
Magela Baudoin Teran
- Title: Graduate Student
- Email: mbaudoin@uoregon.edu
- Phone: 541-852-5628
- Office: 192K Esslinger Hall
- Interests: Latin American literature in XX and XXI centuries. Gothic. Women's Writing.
Sheela Bora Hadjivassiliou
- Title: Graduate Employee, French, PhD Candidate
- Email: sheela@uoregon.edu
- Phone: 541-346-4497
- Office: 192M Esslinger Hall
- Office Hours: Monday and Wednesday @ 9:45 (Zoom)
- Interests: Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies, Feminist Theory, Francophone Literature, Indian Diaspora Studies, Caribbean Literature and Literature from the Indian Ocean, Archipelagic Studies
Lara Boyero
- Title: Graduate Employee, Spanish Sociolinguistics, PhD
- Email: lboyero2@uoregon.edu
- Phone: 541-346-4203
- Office: 198B Esslinger Hall
- Office Hours: T from 2 to 4.30 in CMAE (Oregon Hall)
- Affiliated Departments: Linguistics
- Interests: Linguistics and sociolinguistics, languages in contact, translanguaging, spanglish, heritage learning, Latinoamerican first and third generation, critical pedagogies, teaching a second language, heritage language, discourse analysis
Vincent Brana
- Title: Graduate Employee, Italian, MA
- Email: vbrana@uoregon.edu
- Office: 30 Friendly Hall
- Office Hours: Tuesday 10:00-11:00, Wednesday 3:15-4:15
Janice Deufel
- Title: Graduate Employee, Italian, MA
- Email: jdeufel@uoregon.edu
- Office Hours: Monday and Wednesday 12-1
Rhone Geha
- Title: Graduate Employee, Romance Languages, MA
- Email: rgeha@uoregon.edu
- Office: Friendly 30
- Office Hours: Wednesdays 2:30-4:30 McKenzie 175 (Yamada Language Center) or by appointment
- Interests: Philosophical literature, ecocriticism, postcolonial studies, romance linguistics, cinema studies
Viana Hara
- Title: Graduate Employee, PhD Student
- Email: vhara@uoregon.edu
- Office Hours: Tuesday: 11:30 am- 1:30pm Via Zoom or by appointment Winter Quarter 2022
- Interests: Panamanian Caribbean Narratives: the traces of Colonialism( Race, sexism, nature abuse, control of knowledge/Subjectivities), Post-Dictatorship, Present Democracies,Coloniality, Decoloniality
Jon Jaramillo
- Title: Graduate Employee, Spanish, PhD Candidate
- Email: odello3@gmail.com
- Phone: 541-346-4497
- Office: 192M Friendly Hall
- Office Hours: T/Th 2 to 3PM or by appointment https://uoregon.zoom.us/j/8747897222
- Interests: Politics, Post colonial Studies, Philosophy, SLAT, Queer Studies, Women's and Gender Studies, Poetry, Cinema, Translation Studies, Memory Studies, Transfeminism
Claire Kepple
- Title: Graduate Employee, Masters
- Email: ckepple2@uoregon.edu
- Office: 30 Friendly Hall
- Office Hours: Mondays, 2-4pm, or by appointment
- Affiliated Departments: Spanish
- Interests: Latin American Studies, Latin American History, 20th Century Latin American Literature, Memory, Testimony, Peruvian History, Border Studies, Mexican Studies
Gloria Macedo Janto
- Title: Graduate Employee, Spanish, PhD
- Email: gmacedo@uoregon.edu
- Office: Esslinger Hall, 192L
- Affiliated Departments: Romance Languages
- Interests: Memory and Testimony, Politics and Fiction, Genealogies in Afro and Andean Literatures, and Gender Studies
Sergio Marín
- Title: Graduate Employee, RL, PHD
- Email: amarin5@uoregon.edu
- Office: Esslinger
- Affiliated Departments: Romance Languages
- Interests: Latin American studies, ecocriticism.
Marina Peñalosa Montero
- Title: Graduate Employee, Spanish, PhD Candidate
- Email: mpenalos@uoregon.edu
- Office: 192F Esslinger Hall
- Office Hours: Wed 2-4 and by appt (Zoom and in person)
- Interests: Comparative Literature, Latin-American Literature, Jorge Luis Borges, Borges essays, Philosophical Concepts in Literature, Auto-fiction in Modern Literature (20th and 21th century)
Gerardo Pisacane
- Title: Graduate Employee, Italian, PhD
- Email: gpisaca2@uoregon.edu
- Phone: 865-232-9328
- Office: Friendly 30
- Office Hours: Monday, 12 -13 (FREE TUTORING, Mckenzie 175) or by appointment
- Affiliated Departments: Romance Languages
- Interests: Teaching Italian and Pedagogy. Cinema and Television Studies, Gender and Sexuality, Queer Studies
Gloria Pitkin
- Title: Graduate Employee, Masters
- Email: gloriap@uoregon.edu
- Office: Friendly 30
- Office Hours: Wednesdays 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm in MCK 175; or by appointment.
- Interests: 20th century literature, postcolonial and decolonial studies, existentialism, phenomenology, critical theory, Theatre of Cruelty, translation theory, and philology.
Jesús Ramírez Silva
- Title: Graduate Employee, Spanish & French Masters
- Email: jramire4@uoregon.edu
- Office: Friendly 30 (Basement)
- Office Hours: Mondays 2-3pm, Tuesdays 10-11am. Zoom: https://uoregon.zoom.us/j/3768160303
- Interests: Women, gender, and sexuality studies. Colonization and Latin America. French feminism.
Kevin Regan-Maglione
- Title: Graduate Employee, Italian, PhD candidate
- Additional Title: he/him/his
- Email: klr@uoregon.edu
- Phone: 541-346-4497
- Office: 192L Esslinger Hall
- Office Hours: Fall 2021: Thursdays, 1:00pm-3:00pm via Zoom or by appt
- Affiliated Departments: Romance Languages
- Interests: Romance language studies, archival politics, testimony, temporality
Maryam Saedi
- Title: Graduate Employee, French, PhD candidate
- Email: maryams@uoregon.edu
- Phone: 541-346-4497
- Office: 198C Esslinger Hall
- Office Hours: Mondays, Wednesdays 9:00-10:00. Please email for Zoom link.
- Interests: 20th century French studies, Theater of the Absurd, film studies
Elizabeth Sotelo
- Title: Graduate Employee, Spanish, PhD Student
- Email: esotelo@uoregon.edu
- Office: 192K Esslinger Hall
- Office Hours: TH 1:30pm-3:30pm via Zoom or by Appt
- Interests: Latin American Modern Literary and Visual Cultures, 20th and 21st Century Mexican and Peruvian Literature, Chronicle Genre, Critical Race Studies, Cultural Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Film Studies.
Macarena Tejada López
- Title: Graduate Employee, Spanish, PhD Candidate
- Email: makt@uoregon.edu
- Phone: 541-346-4497
- Office: 198B Esslinger Hall
- Office Hours: Monday and Friday 1-2p
- Interests: Autobiography studies, Spanish Civil War, Soviet Russia, Holocaust Studies, Masculinity studies.
Pablo Torres
- Title: Graduate Employee, Spanish, PhD
- Email: pablos@uoregon.edu
- Phone: +1 (541) 285-6919
- Office: 30 Friendly Hall
- Office Hours: Monday, Wednesday 2:30-3:30pm
- Affiliated Departments: Administrator Licensure Program
- Interests: Latin American narrative, 20th century, existentialism, censorship, cinema, queer studies, memory studies
Cornesha Tweede
- Title: Graduate Employee, Spanish, PhD Candidate
- Email: ctweede@uoregon.edu
- Phone: 541-346-4497
- Office: 192D Esslinger Hall
- Office Hours: Tuesdays 9:00-10:40 am, or by appointment
- Affiliated Departments: African Studies
- Interests: African Baroque, Feminine Studies, Iberian Studies, Africana Studies, Black Studies, Race Studies
Salma Valadez-Marquez
- Title: Graduate Employee, PhD Candidate
- Email: svaladez@uoregon.edu
Javier Velasco
- Title: GE Spanish. PhD candidate
- Email: jvelasco@uoregon.edu
- Phone: 541-346-4497
- Office: 198B Esslinger Hall
- Office Hours: Tuesdays 10:00 to 11:50
- Interests: Marxist theory, postcolonial studies, performance studies, aesthetics of art and politics
Yosa Vidal-Collados
- Title: Graduate Employee, Spanish, PhD Candidate
- Additional Title: Spanish-French
- Email: yosav@uoregon.edu
- Phone: 541-346-4497
- Office: 198C Esslinger Hall
- Office Hours: M-W 12:00-12:50
- Interests: Latin American literature, aesthetics and politics, cartoons and political humor, creative writing.
José Jesús Vilches Aguado
- Title: Graduate Employee, Spanish, PhD student
- Email: jesusv@uoregon.edu
- Phone: 6812859016
- Office: 192K Esslinger Hall
- Office Hours: Mondays and Thursdays 1-2 pm
- Interests: Latin American literature
Haley Wakelam
- Title: Graduate Employee, Romance Languages, MA
- Email: hwakelam@uoregon.edu
- Office: 30 Friendly Hall
- Office Hours: Tuesday and Thursday, 10-11 AM
- Interests: feminist ethics, global feminisms, contemporary affect, non-place, critical theory, aesthetic categories, lieux communs, translation theory, life writing, everyday life theory
Jordan Youssefzadeh Clementi
- Title: GE of Spanish, PhD Candidate
- Email: jordan.y.clementi@protonmail.com
- Phone: 541-346-4203
- Office: 192G Esslinger Hall
- Office Hours: Drop-in W 10a-12p or by appointment, if you're not my current students, you can ask for the zoom link
- Affiliated Departments: African Studies, French, Latin American Studies, Portuguese, Romance Languages, Spanish, Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies
- Interests: Post-National Futures, Feminist Solidarity Networks, Global South Studies, Black Feminisms, Third World Feminisms, Historical Pluralisms, States of Exception, Anti-Hegemonic Solidarities
Kiana Youssefzadeh Clementi
- Title: Graduate Employee, French, PhD candidate
- Email: kyoussef@uoregon.edu
- Office: 192B Esslinger Hall
- Office Hours: Wednesday and Thursday 12:00-1:00
- Interests: Postcolonial studies, African & Asian Diaspora, National identities, Feminist Theory, Comic Studies, Children and political violence, French cinema, Muslim feminism, Laïcité