People
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
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
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
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: 541-346-4050
- 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
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
Juan Epple
- Title: Professor Emeritus of Spanish
- Additional Title: Professor Emeritus
- Email: jaepple@uoregon.edu
- Phone: 541-346-4028
- Office: 210 Friendly Hall
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
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
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
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
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
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
Herlinda Leon
- Title: Assistant to Department Head
- Email: lleon@uoregon.edu
- Phone: 541-346-0951
- Office: 102B Friendly Hall
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
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
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
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)
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!
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
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
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
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
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.
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
Alex Weissenberger
- Title: Undergraduate and Office Coordinator
- Email: aweisse2@uoregon.edu
- Phone: 541-346-0951
- Office: 114 Friendly Hall
- Office Hours: M-F 8:30-4:30
- Interests: Traveling, Scandinavian Culture, Photography, Hiking
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
Gloria Zabala
- 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
- 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 Zoom. Please email for link. In person by appointment only
- Affiliated Departments: Spanish Heritage Language Program