Faculty

Alexandre Albert-Galtier

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  • Title: Associate Professor Emeritus of French
  • Phone: 541-346-4026
  • Office: 322 Friendly Hall
  • Departments: French, Romance Languages
  • Affiliated Departments: French, Romance Languages
  • Interests: 17th Centuty French Literature, Theater, Arts and Literature: Painters and Writers

Rafael Arias

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  • Title: Senior Instructor II of Spanish
  • Phone: 541-346-4106
  • Office: 16 Friendly Hall
  • Office Hours: MW 11:30-12:30
  • Departments: Romance Languages, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program
  • Affiliated Departments: Spanish Heritage Language Program

Amy Costales

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  • Title: Senior Instructor II of Spanish
  • Phone: 541-346-4104
  • 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

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  • Title: Senior Instructor of Spanish and Spanish Heritage Language
  • Additional Title: Maestra de español como segunda lengua y lengua de herencia
  • Phone: 541-346-4104
  • Office: 20 Friendly Hall
  • Office Hours: SPRING 2023 Martes y jueves (TTh) de 3:30-4:30 p.m.
  • Departments: Romance Languages, Romance Languages Major, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program
  • Interests: Latines in the U.S., Latine Literature, Estudios culturales

Robert Davis

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  • Title: Professor of Spanish
  • Additional Title: Director of Language Instruction
  • Phone: 541-346-0956
  • 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

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  • Title: Senior Instructor II
  • Additional Title: First Year Italian Supervisor
  • Phone: 541-346-4039
  • Office: 216 Friendly Hall
  • Office Hours: Wed. 1-3 (remote)
  • Departments: Italian, Romance Languages

Juanita Devereaux

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  • Title: Senior Instructor of Spanish II
  • Phone: 541-346-4050
  • 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

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  • Title: Senior Instructor I of French
  • Additional Title: 1st-Year French Supervisor
  • Phone: 541-346-4025
  • 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

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  • Title: Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies
  • Phone: 541-346-0958
  • Office: 210 Friendly Hall
  • Office Hours: Thursdays 2:00 - 3:45 pm
  • Departments: Romance Languages
  • Affiliated Departments: African Studies

Paula Ellister

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  • Title: Supervisor, First-year Spanish
  • Additional Title: Senior Instructor of Spanish II
  • Phone: 541-346-0954
  • 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

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  • Title: Associate Professor of Spanish
  • Additional Title: Director of Undergraduate Studies
  • Phone: 541-346-4045
  • Office: 323 Friendly Hall
  • Office Hours: Thursdays 10am-12pm
  • Departments: Romance Languages
  • Affiliated Departments: Comparative Literature

Pedro García-Caro

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  • Title: Associate Professor of Spanish
  • Additional Title: Provost Fellow for Academic Freedom (2022-2023)
  • Phone: 541-346-5813
  • 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

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  • Title: Assistant Professor of Italian, Mediterranean Studies
  • Phone: 541-346-6984
  • 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

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  • Title: Professor of Spanish
  • Phone: 541-346-0983
  • Office: 105B Friendly Hall
  • Office Hours: Fall 2023, MW 12:00-1:00
  • Departments: Romance Languages, Spanish
  • Affiliated Departments: Translation Studies
  • Interests: Translation Studies (theory and practice), Latin American theater

Devin Grammon

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  • Title: Assistant Professor of Spanish Sociolinguistics
  • Phone: 541-346-4070
  • Office: 417 Friendly Hall
  • Office Hours: By appointment
  • 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

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  • Title: Senior Instructor of Spanish
  • Additional Title: Second Year Supervisor
  • Phone: 541-346-3153
  • Office: 22 Friendly Hall
  • Office Hours: Fall 23, Tuesdays/Wednesdays 1:20-2:20
  • Departments: Romance Languages, Spanish
  • Affiliated Departments: Latin American Studies

Gina Herrmann

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  • Title: Norman H. Brown Faculty Fellow, Professor of Spanish, National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow 2017-18
  • Phone: 541-654-2705
  • Office: 220 Friendly Hall
  • Office Hours: WED 10-12 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

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  • Title: Associate Professor of Italian and French, National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow 2019-20
  • Additional Title: Director of European Studies
  • Phone: 541-346-4058
  • 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

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  • Title: Senior Instructor II of Italian/YLC Self Study Language Program Coordinator
  • Phone: 541-346-1540 (email preferred)
  • 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

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  • Title: Career Faculty in Spanish
  • Phone: 541-346-0955
  • 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

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  • Title: Assistant Professor of Spanish Linguistics
  • Additional Title: Director of the Spanish Heritage Language Program
  • 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

Leah Middlebrook

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  • Title: Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Spanish
  • Phone: 541-346-3103
  • 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

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  • Title: Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese
  • Phone: 541-346-4031
  • Office: Friendly 211
  • Office Hours: Fall, 2023: Thursdays 9:30-11:30 (in person) and by appointment. Zoom by appointment.
  • Departments: Comparative Literature, IRES, Portuguese, Romance Languages, Spanish
  • Affiliated Departments: African Studies, Black Studies, IRES, Latin American Studies, Portuguese, Spanish
  • 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

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  • Title: Associate Professor of French
  • Additional Title: Head, French sector
  • Phone: 541-346-4032
  • Office: 324 Friendly Hall
  • Office Hours: Spring 2023: Wednesdays 12:30-2:30 pm
  • 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

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  • Title: Senior Instructor II of French
  • Phone: 541-346-4049
  • Office: 25 Friendly Hall
  • Office Hours: MW 12-12:50
  • Departments: French, Romance Languages

Gina Psaki

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  • Title: Professor Emerita of Italian
  • Additional Title: Professor, Romance Languages
  • Phone: 541-346-4042
  • Office: 224 Friendly Hall
  • 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

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  • Title: Senior Instructor II of Spanish
  • Phone: 541-346-4106
  • 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

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  • Title: Senior Instructor II of Spanish
  • Phone: 541-346-4057
  • Office: UO Annex, Ste 6
  • Office Hours: Mon and Wed, 4-5pm
  • 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

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  • Title: Senior Instructor 1 of Portuguese
  • Additional Title: Portuguese Language Supervisor
  • Phone: 541-346-4052
  • 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

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  • Title: Senior Instructor II of Spanish Composition, Creative Writing, and Poetry
  • Phone: 541-346-8304
  • Office: 424 Friendly Hall
  • Office Hours: T/Th 15:30-16:30 hrs.
  • Departments: Romance Languages, Spanish
  • Affiliated Departments: Latin American Studies

Analisa Taylor

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  • Title: Associate Professor of Spanish
  • Phone: 541-521-9762
  • Office: 326 Friendly Hall
  • Office Hours: On leave winter '23
  • 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

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  • Title: Senior Instructor II of Italian
  • Additional Title: Second Year Supervisor
  • Phone: 541-346-4039
  • Office: 216 Friendly Hall
  • Office Hours: Mondays, Fridays and Wednesdays 11-11:45 AM in MCK 175
  • Departments: Italian, Romance Languages

David Wacks

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  • Title: Professor of Spanish: Department Head, Romance Languages
  • Phone: 541-346-4029
  • Office: 105C Friendly Hall
  • Office Hours: By appointment https://tinyurl.com/yfw9rr35
  • Departments: Romance Languages
  • Affiliated Departments: Judaic Studies Program
  • Interests: Medieval Iberian literature and culture, Sephardic studies, Mediterranean Studies
  • Website: Website

Nathan Whalen

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  • Title: Senior Instructor II of Spanish
  • Phone: 541-346-4257
  • Office: 192H Esslinger Hall
  • Office Hours: Tuesday 12-1, Wednesday 1-2
  • Departments: Romance Languages, Spanish

Alex Zunterstein

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  • Title: Senior Instructor II of Spanish & Assistant Head, Romance Languages
  • Additional Title: Spanish Heritage Language Program Coordinator
  • Phone: 541-346-4257
  • Office: 213 Friendly Hall
  • Office Hours: Tues 9-11 *only for students enrolled in my SPAN 312 & SPAN 320 classes. Please see shl.uoregon.edu for SHL advising hours
  • Departments: Romance Languages, Spanish
  • Affiliated Departments: Spanish Heritage Language Program