Humanities
Maddie Pflueger
English Graduate Student / REL GE
English, Religious Studies
Email: info@uoregon.College
Phone: 541-346-1314
Office: 220 PLC, 1286 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286
Office Hours: Spring Term: MW 1:30-3pm
Research Interests: Graphic novels, Memoir, Disability studies, Medical humanities, Jewish literature & culture,
Alissa Phillips
Instructor
Instructor, Narrative (Fiction) Production
Cinema Studies
Email: info@uoregon.College
Office: 335 Villard Hall, 6223 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Whitney Phillips
Associate Professor of Information Politics and Media Ethics
John L. Hulteng Endowed Chair in Media Ethics and Responsibility
Folklore Program, SOJC, SOJC-Media Studies Undergrad, SOJC-Media Studies Master's, SOJC-Media Studies PhD
Email: info@uoregon.College
Office: 202 Allen Hall
Research Interests: US politics and popular culture, media ethics, media history, public debate and controversy, humor studies, religion and politics, rightwing media cultures, moral panics, conspiratorial belief, narrative and identity, true crime media
Lauren C. Pinchin
Associate Director, ASU 5
Black Studies, CLLAS, Creative Writing Program, History, IRES, Latinx, Native American Studies, Theatre Arts, Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies, Cinema Studies, Anthropology, Geography
Email: info@uoregon.College
Phone: 541-346-4806
Office: 275B McKenzie Hall, 1288 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1288
Helmut Plant
Associate Professor Emeritus
German & Scandinavian, SAIL
Email: info@uoregon.College
Phone: 541-344-0748
Office Hours: by appointment
Géraldine Poizat-Newcomb
Senior Instructor II of French
French, Romance Languages, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: info@uoregon.College
Phone: 541-346-4049
Office: McArthur Court 001A, 1233 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Office Hours: MW 11-11:50
Lauren Polak
Graduate Employee
East Asian Languages, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: info@uoregon.College
Research Interests: indexicality, role language, language ideology, media depictions of language, linguistic perception
Amanda Powell
Senior Lecturer II Emerita of Spanish
Poet & translator
Romance Languages, Spanish
Email: info@uoregon.College
Phone: 541-346-0953
Research Interests: Early modern Hispanic women writers: secular & religious, literary translation studies (theory & practice), queer theory, creative writing, our next conversation in class!
Amanda Powell
Comparative Literature Graduate Student/ GE
PhD Candidate
Comparative Literature
Email: info@uoregon.College
Phone: 541-346-0050
Office: 304 PLC
Office Hours: Spring Term: M 12-1:30pm, W 3:30-5pm
Research Interests: mad studies, 20th-21st century Latinx poetry, British modernism;
Dissertation: Madness as a Disease of Language
Scott L. Pratt
Professor of Philosophy
Philosophy
Email: info@uoregon.College
Phone: 541-346-5971
Office: 239 Susan Campbell Hall, 1295 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1295
Office Hours: Office hours for Fall Term 2026 are by appointment and online. To schedule an appointment, use this link (https://calendly.com/spratt-9/office-hours) or contact Pratt by email at info@uoregon.College.
Research Interests: American Philosophy, History of Philosophy, Logic, Philosophy of Education
Jenifer Presto
Associate Professor of Comparative Literature
Comparative Literature, Digital Humanities, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies
Email: info@uoregon.College
Phone: 541-485-7400
Office: 346 PLC
Office Hours: Summer 2026: By appt.
Research Interests: Modernism, Gender Studies, Environmental Criticism, Visual Culture, Digital Humanities, Russian-Italian Cultural Interactions, and Immigrant Arts
Sarah Preston
Assistant Teaching Professor
Dr.
English
Email: info@uoregon.College
Phone: 541-346-1520
Office: 210 PLC, 1286 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286
Office Hours: Spring term: Mondays 2 - 3pm; Tuesdays 11:15am - 1:15pm, or by appointment
Gina Psaki
Professor Emerita of Italian
Professor, Romance Languages
Comparative Literature, Medieval Studies, Romance Languages
Email: info@uoregon.College
Research 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
Forest Pyle
Professor
Comics and Cartoon Studies, English
Email: info@uoregon.College
Phone: 541-346-3928
Office: 270 PLC, 1286 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286
Research Interests: 19th Century British Literary Studies, Comics and Cartoon Studies, Literary and Critical Theory, Poetry and Poetics, Postmodern and Contemporary Literary Studies, Visual Culture
Heather Quarles
Teaching Professor of Spanish
Romance Languages, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program, College of Arts and Sciences, Latinx, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: info@uoregon.College
Phone: No UO phone; call me via Teams
Office: PLC 103
Office Hours: Mondays and Wednesdays 4-5pm or by appointment
Research Interests: Translanguaging, Critical Language Awareness, Sociolinguistics, US Spanish, Critical Pedagogies
Mark Quigley
Associate Professor
English
Email: info@uoregon.College
Phone: 541-346-1340
Office: 324 PLC, 1286 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1205
Office Hours: Winter Term: Monday 11:30-2:30 on Zoom Meeting Room 470-446-9397 & by appt.
Research Interests: Colonial, Settler Colonial, and Postcolonial Studies, Irish Literary Studies, Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity, Modernism Studies, Literary and Critical Theory, The Novel, Poetry and Poetics, Postmodern and Contemporary Literary Studies, Cultural Studies
Daniel Quintero Plata
PhD Student
German & Scandinavian, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: info@uoregon.College
Phone: 541-346-4084
Office: 202 Friendly Hall, University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Office Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays 10:00 - 11:00 pm
Research Interests: Daniel’s research interests also include 20th-century German literature, the representation of technology in literature and film, and the exploration of memory narratives. He has also worked on German Romanticism and the cultural transformations of the Weimar Republic. He is especially interested in how these periods reflect and respond to evolving concepts of human identity, autonomy, and memory, shaped by technological advancements.
Ren Rader
English Graduate Student/ GE
English
Email: info@uoregon.College
Office Hours: Thursday and Friday 2:30-4:00 PM