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 Spring 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: Via Zoom
- Office Hours: W 10:00-12:00 and by appointment
- Affiliated Departments: Spanish Heritage Language Program
Cory Browning
- Title: Assistant Professor of French
- Email: cbrowni3@uoregon.edu
- Phone: 541-346-4028
- Office: 428 Friendly Hall
- Office Hours: Tuesday, 1-2 Wednesday, 4-5 and by appointment
- Affiliated Departments: Comparative Literature Department, European Studies
- Interests: 19th, 20th, 21st century French and Francophone Studies, Critical Theory, Aesthetics and Violence
Nadia Ceccacci
- Title: Senior Instructor II of Italian
- Email: ceccacci@uoregon.edu
- Phone: 541-346-0952
- Office: 106A Friendly Hall
- Office Hours: Tuesdays: 10:30-12:20, zoom meetings
- Interests: Language Pedagogy, Contemporary Italian Literature and Culture
Jeff Contreras
- Title: Senior Instructor I of Spanish
- Email: jcontrer@uoregon.edu
- Phone: 541-346-4027
- Office: 22 Friendly Hall
- Office Hours: Tues 10:00-12:00
Amy Costales
- Title: Senior Instructor I of Spanish
- Email: acostale@uoregon.edu
- Phone: 541-346-4104
- Office: 20 Friendly Hall
- Office Hours: Mon. & Tue. 12:00 - 1:00
- Interests: U.S Spanish, Linguistics, Border expression, Latino experience in U.S.
- Website: Website
Liliana Darwin Lopez
- Title: Senior Instructor of Spanish and Spanish Heritage Language
- Additional Title: Maestra de español como segunda lengua y lengua de herencia
- Email: ldarwin@uoregon.edu
- Phone: n/a
- Office: por Zoom primavera 2021
- Office Hours: Martes y miércoles 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: By appointment: Contact me by email for Zoom link
- 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: Wednesday 10:00-10:50 and 1:00-1:50 or by appointment
Laurie deGonzalez
- Title: Senior Career Instructor II - French and Spanish
- Email: laurie@uoregon.edu
- Phone: 541-346-0954
- Office: 105E Friendly Hall
- Office Hours: Tuesday and Wednesday 1:00-1:50 p.m.
- Interests: swimming, writing, hiking, travel, Fluffs
Juanita Devereaux
- Title: Senior Instructor of Spanish II
- Email: uuebner@uoregon.edu
- Phone: 541-346-4057
- Office: UO Annex, Ste 6
- Office Hours: Tuesdays 12:00-1:50
- 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. 2:15-3:15, Th. 9:30-10:30, & by apptmt--Office hours held via ZOOM spring term; email me for link
- 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: Sabbatical Leave AY 20/21
- 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
Pedro García-Caro
- Title: Director, Latin American Studies Program
- Additional 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
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, Oregon Center for Translation Studies
- Email: gladhart@uoregon.edu
- Phone: 541-346-0983
- Office: 105B Friendly Hall
- Office Hours: Winter 2020, W 12:00-2:00
- Affiliated Departments: Translation Studies
- Interests: Translation Studies (theory and practice), Latin American theater
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
- Additional Title: Interim Director, Harold Schnitzer Family Program in Judaic Studies, Advisor
- 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 2021: on Zoom Mondays 12:30-2pm or by appt.
- Affiliated Departments: European Studies
Harinder Khalsa
- Title: Senior Instructor II of Italian/YLC SSLP Coordinator
- Email: harinder@uoregon.edu
- Phone: 541-346-4057 (email preferred)
- Office: UO Annex, Ste 6
- Office Hours: MW 9:30-10:30 or by appointment
- Affiliated Departments: Linguistics, 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
Maria Monica Lara
- Title: Senior Instructor II of Spanish
- Email: mlara@uoregon.edu
- Phone: 541-346-4057
- Office: UO Annex, Ste 6
- Office Hours: Tuesday & Thursday 12-12:50
- Affiliated Departments: Romance Languages
Kelley León Howarth
- Title: Career Faculty in Spanish
- Additional Title: Spanish Heritage Language Program Coordinator
- Email: khowarth@uoregon.edu
- Phone: n/a for Spring 2021
- Office: 213 Friendly Hall
- Office Hours: Thursday 2-4pm & por cita individual
- Affiliated Departments: Romance Languages Major
Sergio Loza
- Title: Assistant Professor of Spanish Linguistics
- Email: sloza@uoregon.edu
- Office: 430 Friendly Hall
- Office Hours: Thur 4-5pm
- Affiliated Departments: Linguistics
Leah Middlebrook
- Title: Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Spanish
- Additional Title: Department Head - Comparative Literature
- Email: middlebr@uoregon.edu
- Phone: 541-346-3103
- Office: 305 Villard Hall
- Office Hours: S 2021: Tues/ Thurs 2:30 - 3:30 or by appt
- 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: 406 Friendly Hall
- Office Hours: Thursdays 9:30-11:30 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: Spring 2021: Tuesday 9-11 am via Zoom
- Affiliated Departments: 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.
Sayo Murcia
- Title: Senior Inst II of Spanish, 2nd Year Supervisor
- Additional Title: Spanish Second-Year Supervisor
- Email: murcia@uoregon.edu
- Phone: 541-346-4038
- Office: 226 Friendly Hall
- Office Hours: T-Th 12:00-12:50 pm
- Affiliated Departments: Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program
Géraldine Poizat-Newcomb
- Title: Senior Instructor I of French
- Email: gpoizat@uoregon.edu
- Phone: 541-346-4049
- Office: 25 Friendly Hall
- Office Hours: MW 12-12:50
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: Thursdays 10am-Noon
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: W 1:30-3:30 pm
- Affiliated Departments: Latin American Studies
Analisa Taylor
- Title: Associate Professor of Spanish
- Email: analisa@uoregon.edu
- Phone: 541-346-4047
- 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: Middle East and North African Studies
- 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 AY 20/21
Gloria Zabala
- Title: Senior Instructor II of Spanish
- Phone: 541-346-4057
- Office: UO Annex, Ste 6
- Office Hours: Tuesday 10:30- 11:30 , Wednesday: 11:30-11:30
- Affiliated Departments: Yamada Language Center
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 Microsoft Teams
- Affiliated Departments: Spanish Heritage Language Program