People

Rafael Arias

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  • Title: Senior Instructor I of Spanish
  • Phone: 541-346-4106
  • Office: 16 Friendly Hall
  • Office Hours: Mondays 10:30-12:30 and by appointment
  • Departments: Romance Languages, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program
  • Affiliated Departments: Spanish Heritage Language Program

Lara Boyero

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  • Title: Graduate Employee, Spanish Sociolinguistics, PhD
  • Phone: 541-346-4203
  • Office: 198B Esslinger Hall
  • Office Hours: T from 2 to 4.30 in CMAE (Oregon Hall)
  • Departments: Romance Languages, Spanish
  • 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

Stacey Christian

  • Title: Instructor of Spanish
  • Phone: 541-346-4203
  • Office: Friendly 30
  • Office Hours: 11:30-12:20 Tuesday, Wednesday
  • Departments: Spanish
  • Affiliated Departments: Romance Languages
  • Interests: Spanish Language Teaching, Translation, Second Language Acquisition

Annie Christofferson

  • Title: Undergraduate & Program Coordinator
  • Phone: 541-346-0746
  • Office: Friendly 114
  • Departments: French, Italian, Judaic Studies Program, Portuguese, Romance Languages, Spanish

Jeff Contreras

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  • Title: Senior Instructor of Spanish
  • Phone: 541-346-4027
  • Office: 22 Friendly Hall
  • Office Hours: Mon 9:00-10:00 or by appt.
  • Departments: Romance Languages, Spanish, 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
  • 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
  • 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

Laurie deGonzalez

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  • Title: Senior Career Instructor II - French and Spanish
  • Phone: 541-346-0954
  • Office: 105E Friendly Hall
  • Office Hours: Tuesday and Wednesday 1:00-1:50 p.m.
  • Departments: French, Spanish
  • Interests: swimming, writing, hiking, travel, Fluffs

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

Brita Ellis

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  • Title: Graduate Coordinator
  • Phone: 541-346-9782
  • Office: Friendly 114E
  • Departments: African Studies, Asian Studies, Chinese, College of Arts and Sciences, East Asian Languages, Food Studies, French, German & Scandinavian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Middle East and North African Studies, OCIAS, Portuguese, Romance Languages, Romance Languages Major, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program

Paula Ellister

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  • Title: Supervisor, First-year Spanish
  • 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

Juan Epple

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  • Title: Professor Emeritus of Spanish
  • Phone: 541-346-4028
  • Office: 210 Friendly Hall
  • Departments: Latin American Studies, Romance Languages, Spanish

Pedro García-Caro

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  • Title: Associate Professor of Spanish
  • 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

Leonardo Garcia-Pabon

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  • Title: Professor Emeriti
  • Phone: 541-346-4024
  • Office: 223 Friendly Hall
  • Departments: Romance Languages, Spanish
  • Affiliated Departments: Latin American Studies
  • Website: Website

Jack Gillespie

  • Title: Romance Languages MA Student: Spanish & French
  • Office: Friendly Hall 30
  • Office Hours: Mondays and Thursdays, 12:00pm-1:00pm
  • Departments: French, Romance Languages, Spanish
  • Interests: Spanish sociolinguistics, Second language acquisition, Comparative linguistics

Amalia Gladhart

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  • Title: Professor of Spanish
  • Phone: 541-346-0983
  • 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

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
  • Phone: 541-346-3153
  • Office: 22 Friendly Hall
  • Office Hours: Spring, Wednesdays 1:00-2:00 / Fridays 10:00-11:00
  • Departments: Romance Languages, Spanish
  • Affiliated Departments: Latin American Studies

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

Jon Jaramillo

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  • Title: Instructor of Spanish, Ph. D.
  • Phone: 541-346-4497
  • Office: 192M Friendly Hall
  • Office Hours: T/Th 2 to 3PM or by appointment https://uoregon.zoom.us/j/8747897222
  • Departments: Romance Languages, Spanish
  • Interests: Politics, Post colonial Studies, Philosophy, SLAT, Queer Studies, Women's and Gender Studies, Poetry, Cinema, Translation Studies, Memory Studies, Transfeminism
  • Website: Website

Claire Kepple

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  • Title: Graduate Employee, Spanish MA Student
  • Office: 30 Friendly Hall
  • Departments: Spanish
  • Affiliated Departments: Romance Languages
  • Interests: Latin American Studies, Latin American History, 20th Century Latin American Literature, Memory, Testimony, Peruvian History, Border Studies, Mexican Studies, Caribbean Studies

Maria Monica Lara

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  • Title: Senior Instructor II of Spanish
  • Phone: 541-346-4057
  • Office: UO Annex, Ste 6
  • Office Hours: Tuesday & Thursday 12-12:50
  • Departments: Spanish
  • Affiliated Departments: Romance Languages

Herlinda Leon

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  • Title: Assistant to Department Head
  • Phone: 541-346-0951
  • Office: 102B Friendly Hall
  • Departments: French, Italian, Portuguese, Romance Languages, Romance Languages Major, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program

Sergio Loza

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  • Title: Assistant Professor of Spanish Linguistics
  • 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

Rob Marshall

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  • Title: Graduate Coordinator
  • Phone: 541-346-0195
  • Office: 114E
  • Departments: African Studies, Asian Studies, Chinese, College of Arts and Sciences, East Asian Languages, Food Studies, French, German & Scandinavian, Global Studies, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Middle East and North African Studies, OCIAS, Portuguese, Romance Languages, Romance Languages Major, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program

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 406
  • Office Hours: Spring 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

Sayo Murcia

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  • Title: Senior Inst II of Spanish Emerita
  • Phone: 541-346-4038
  • Office: 226 Friendly Hall
  • Office Hours: M 11:30-1:30 pm
  • Departments: Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program
  • Affiliated Departments: Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program

Marina Peñalosa Montero

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  • Title: Graduate Employee, Spanish, PhD Candidate
  • Phone: 458-205-1082
  • Office: 192F Esslinger Hall
  • Office Hours: Mondays 11-1 and by appt (Zoom and in person)
  • Departments: Romance Languages, Spanish
  • Interests: Comparative Literature, Latin-American Literature, Jorge Luis Borges, Borges essays, Philosophical Concepts in Literature, Auto-fiction in Modern Literature (20th and 21th century)

Amanda Powell

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  • Title: Senior Lecturer II Emerita of Spanish
  • Phone: 541-346-0953
  • Office: 105 Friendly Hall
  • Departments: Romance Languages, Spanish
  • Affiliated Departments: Comparative Literature
  • Interests: Early modern Hispanic women writers: secular & religious, literary translation studies (theory & practice), queer theory, creative writing, our next conversation in class!

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

Lisa Ross

  • Title: Associate Director
  • Phone: 541-346-4005
  • Office: 308 Friendly Hall
  • Office Hours: M-F 8-5
  • Departments: African Studies, Asian Studies, Chinese, East Asian Languages, Food Studies, French, German & Scandinavian, Global Health Program, Global Studies, Ichishkiin Language, Italian, Japanese, Judaic Studies Program, Korean, Middle East and North African Studies, Modern Hebrew Language, Northwest Indian Language Institute, OCIAS, Portuguese, Romance Languages, Romance Languages Major, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program, Yamada Language Center
  • Affiliated Departments: Food Studies, Judaic Studies Program, Yamada Language Center

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

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

Elizabeth Sotelo

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  • Title: Graduate Employee, Spanish, PhD Student
  • Office: 192K Esslinger Hall
  • Departments: Romance Languages, Spanish
  • Interests: Latin American Modern Literary and Visual Cultures, 20th and 21st Century Mexican and Peruvian Literature, Journalism, Chronicle Genre, Critical Race Studies, Decolonial Studies, Women’s Studies, Cultural Studies, Film Studies.

Macarena Tejada López

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  • Title: Graduate Employee, Spanish, PhD Candidate
  • Phone: 541-346-4497
  • Office: 198B Esslinger Hall
  • Office Hours: Monday and Friday 1-2p
  • Departments: Romance Languages, Spanish
  • Interests: Autobiography studies, Spanish Civil War, Soviet Russia, Holocaust Studies, Masculinity studies.

Pablo Torres

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  • Title: Graduate Employee, Spanish, PhD
  • Phone: +1 (541) 285-6919
  • Office: 30 Friendly Hall
  • Office Hours: Monday, Wednesday 2:30-3:30pm
  • Departments: Romance Languages, Romance Languages Major, Spanish
  • Affiliated Departments: Administrator Licensure Program
  • Interests: Latin American narrative, 20th century, existentialism, censorship, cinema, queer studies, memory studies

Javier Velasco

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  • Title: GE Spanish. PhD candidate
  • Phone: 541-346-4497
  • Office: 198B Esslinger Hall
  • Office Hours: Tuesdays 10:00 to 11:50
  • Departments: Romance Languages, Spanish
  • Interests: Marxist theory, postcolonial studies, performance studies, aesthetics of art and politics

Marci Viano-Davis

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  • Title: Operations Manager
  • Phone: 541-346-4019
  • Office: 116 Friendly
  • Office Hours: 9-3 M-F
  • Departments: College of Arts and Sciences, East Asian Languages, Food Studies, German & Scandinavian, Global Health Program, Global Studies, Ichishkiin Language, Italian, Japanese, Judaic Studies Program, Latin American Studies, Middle East and North African Studies, Northwest Indian Language Institute, OCIAS, Romance Languages, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program, Yamada Language Center
  • Affiliated Departments: African Studies, Asian Studies

Yosa Vidal-Collados

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  • Title: Graduate Employee, Spanish, PhD Candidate
  • Phone: 541-346-4497
  • Office: 198C Esslinger Hall
  • Office Hours: M-W 12:00-12:50
  • Departments: Romance Languages, Spanish
  • Interests: Latin American literature, aesthetics and politics, cartoons and political humor, creative writing.

Alex Weissenberger

  • Title: Undergraduate and Office Coordinator
  • Phone: 541-346-0951
  • Office: 114 Friendly Hall
  • Office Hours: M-F 8:30-4:30
  • Departments: East Asian Languages, French, German & Scandinavian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Romance Languages, Romance Languages Major, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program
  • Interests: Traveling, Scandinavian Culture, Photography, Hiking

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

Gloria Zabala

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  • Title: Senior Instructor II of Spanish
  • Phone: 541-346-4057
  • Office: UO Annex, Ste 6
  • Office Hours: Tuesday & Wednesday 10:30-11:30 by ZOOM https://uoregon.zoom.us/j/7967800155 Meeting ID: 796 780 0155
  • Departments: Spanish
  • Affiliated Departments: Yamada Language Center

Alex Zunterstein

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  • Title: Senior Instructor II of Spanish & Assistant Head, Romance Languages
  • 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