People

Vincent Brana

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  • Title: Graduate Employee, Italian, MA
  • Office: 30 Friendly Hall
  • Office Hours: Tuesday 10:00-11:00, Wednesday 3:15-4:15
  • Departments: Italian, Romance Languages

Nadia Ceccacci

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  • Title: Senior Instructor II of Italian
  • Phone: 541-346-0952
  • Office: 106A Friendly Hall
  • Office Hours: Tuesdays: 10:30-12:20, zoom meetings
  • Departments: Italian
  • Interests: Language Pedagogy, Contemporary Italian Literature and Culture

Annie Christofferson

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

Lauretta De Renzo-Huter

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

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

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

Sylvia Giustina

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  • Title: Senior Instructor Emerita
  • Phone: 541-346-4040
  • Office: 419 Friendly Hall
  • Departments: Italian, Romance Languages
  • Website: Website

Nathalie Hester

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  • Title: Associate Professor of Italian and French, National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow 2019-20
  • 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

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

Massimo Lollini

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  • Title: Professor Emeritus of Italian
  • Phone: 541-346-0957
  • Office: 325 Friendly Hall
  • Office Hours: By appointment: write maxiloll@uoregon.edu
  • Departments: Italian, Romance Languages
  • Affiliated Departments: Comparative Literature
  • Interests: Humanisms, More-than-Human-Humanism and Ecocriticism, Digital Culture and New Media, Digital Philology, Mediterranean Studies, Italian and European literature and theory.
  • Website: Website

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

Gerardo Pisacane

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  • Title: Graduate Employee, Italian, PhD
  • Phone: 865-232-9328
  • Office: Friendly 30
  • Office Hours: Monday, 12 -13 (FREE TUTORING, Mckenzie 175) or by appointment
  • Departments: Italian, Romance Languages
  • Affiliated Departments: Romance Languages
  • Interests: Teaching Italian and Pedagogy. Cinema and Television Studies, Gender and Sexuality, Queer Studies

Kevin Regan-Maglione

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  • Title: Graduate Employee, Italian, PhD candidate
  • Phone: 541-346-4497
  • Office: 192L Esslinger Hall
  • Office Hours: Spring 2022: Mondays, 11:00am-1:00pm via Zoom or by appt
  • Departments: Italian, Romance Languages
  • Affiliated Departments: Romance Languages
  • Interests: Romance language studies, archival politics, testimony, temporality

Sergio Rigoletto

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  • Title: Associate Professor of Cinema Studies and Italian
  • Phone: 541-346-4033
  • Office: 424 Friendly Hall
  • Departments: Cinema Studies Program, Italian, Romance Languages
  • Affiliated Departments: Comparative Literature, European Studies

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

Claudia Ventura

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  • Title: Senior Instructor II of Italian
  • 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

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

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