Humanities
K Olivar
English Graduate Student / GE
English
Email: info@uoregon.College
Phone: 541-346-1314
Office: 220 PLC, 1286 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286
Office Hours: Fall 2026: Thursdays 12:30-3:30, and by appointment.
Office hours are held via Zoom.
Research Interests: Early Modern / Renaissance Literature, Drama, Disability Studies, Neurodiversity
Leslie Opp-Beckman
Director of Innovative Programs, AEI
American English Institute, Language Teaching Studies
Email: info@uoregon.College
Dorothee Ostmeier
Professor of German, and Folklore and Public Culture
Folklore Program, German & Scandinavian, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: info@uoregon.College
Phone: 541-346-4145
Office: 204D Agate Hall, 1250 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1205
Office Hours: Tue/Thu 1:20 to 2 PM GSH 103 Afterwards Villard until 3:30 PM and by appointment
Research Interests: German literature and culture of the 18th through 20th century
Shao-Chi Ou
Comparative Literature Graduate Student/GE
Comparative Literature
Email: info@uoregon.College
Skyler Outler
Philosophy Graduate Student
Philosophy
Email: info@uoregon.College
Office: Susan Campbell Hall 211, Eugene OR 97403
Priscilla Peña Ovalle
Associate Professor
Comics and Cartoon Studies, IRES, Cinema Studies, Latinx
Email: info@uoregon.College
Phone: 541-346-0060
Office: 233 Villard Hall, 6223 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Office Hours: By Appointment
Research Interests: Media Studies, Race/Ethnicity, Dance, Mainstream Popular Culture, Media Hairstyles
Lo Owens
ASU4 Faculty Support
Human Physiology, Linguistics, Psychology, Earth Sciences
Email: info@uoregon.College
Office: 936 PLC, 1284 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1284
Minyoung Park
English Graduate Student
English
Email: info@uoregon.College
Research Interests: Modernism, 20th Century Anglophone Literature, The Novel, Medical Humanities, Feminist Theory, Fashion
Sueanne E. Parker
Sr Instructor I
Senior Instructor I
American English Institute
Email: info@uoregon.College
Phone: 541-346-3945
Office: 213 Agate Hall, 5212 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-5212
Trish Pashby
Teaching Professor
Language Teaching Studies, Linguistics
Email: info@uoregon.College
Phone: 541-346-3945
Office: 169 Straub Hall
Office Hours: September 15 to December 11:
Tuesdays 2:00-3:00, Wednesdays 11:30-12:30, Thursdays 2:00-3:00
and by appointment
No office hours on Sept 23, Nov 11, Nov 26
Doris Payne
Professor Emerita
African Studies, Arabic Studies, Linguistics
Email: info@uoregon.College
Phone: 541-346-3894
Office: 271 Straub Hall, 1290 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1290
Office Hours: By appointment only, please email to set up appt.
Tom Payne
Research Associate
Linguistics
Email: info@uoregon.College
Research Interests: Typological morphology and syntax. Mother-tongue based multi-lingual education. Philippine languages and Manchu languages.
Eleanor Paynter
Assistant Professor
Italian, Migration, and Global Media Studies
Romance Languages, Italian, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: info@uoregon.College
Office: McArthur Court B011A, 1233 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Office Hours: Tuesdays, 2:00-4:00pm and by appointment
Research Interests: media and politics of migration, asylum and migrant rights, migration in Europe, Africa-Europe mobilities, transnational Italy, race in Europe, comparative border studies, social movements, human rights, and testimony via critical refugee studies, media studies, ethnography, and oral history
Eric Pederson
Associate Professor, Retired
Linguistics
Email: info@uoregon.College
Phone: 541-346-3900
Office: 375 Straub Hall
Research Interests: Semantic typology, gesture, psycholinguistics, Dravidian linguistics
Paul Peppis
Professor, emeritus
Comics and Cartoon Studies, English
Email: info@uoregon.College
Research Interests: Comics and Cartoon Studies, Cultural Studies, Irish Literary Studies, Modernism Studies, Poetry and Poetics, Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity, The Novel
Daniel Peres Santos
PhD
GE
Philosophy
Email: info@uoregon.College
Office Hours: Fridays, 12-00pm-2:00pm. SCH 211B.
Research Interests: 19th and 20th Century European Thought, Ancient Philosophy, Logic, Philosophy of Religion, Lusophone Philosophy
Gabriela Pérez Báez
Associate Professor
Linguistics, Language Teaching Studies, Latinx
Email: info@uoregon.College
Office: 263 Straub Hall, 1290 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1290
Office Hours: Thursdays 10am - 12pm (or by appointment)
Please sign up for a time slot here: https://tinyurl.com/5n77s5dw
Research Interests: Linguistic diversity, multi/plurilingualism, linguistic rights, Indigenous languages, language revitalization
Genevieve Pfeiffer
ESSP Graduate Student / GE
English, Environmental Studies
Email: info@uoregon.College
Office Hours: MF 8-9:30am & by appt.
Research Interests: Environmental humanities, artificial intelligence (AI), data ethics, multispecies studies, feminist science and technology studies, data governmentality, data infrastructures, reproductive justice, digital humanities, poetry and poetics, 20th and 21st century literatures