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Welcome to Késsia Shingu! This is her first semester teaching Portuguese to UGA students as a Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant (FTLA) in the Department of Romance Languages. She shares her reflections on being a cultural ambassador:  As a child and teenager, my interests varied a lot. I enjoyed all subjects, sports, music, and movies. However, I would say reading and studying the English language were big hobbies of mine.…

In August, Luis Correa-Díaz, Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Romance Languages, was invited by the Instituto de Literatura y Ciencias del Lenguaje (ILCL) at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso to present his new edited volume: La Bandera de Chile es extranjera en su propio país. Estudios sobre la poesía civil/insurrecta de Elvira Hernández. (Kassel/Barcelona: Edition Reichenberger, Colección Problemata…

By Amelia Rehman Around this time last year, I took home a flyer that had been hanging in Gilbert Hall, one that quickly populated many walls and crevices of the building, advertising the Buenos Aires Study Away program. I had recently changed my Spanish minor to a double major, confident that I wanted to spend the rest of my undergraduate experience strengthening my knowledge and fluency in the language, even if it meant a more demanding…

French and Spanish major Esteban Lazaro has been named as the Department of Romance Languages' first Student Ambassador. A member of French National Honor Society Pi Delta Phi, Esteban studied in Montpellier last summer with UGA en France. This summer, he will be sharing information about our departmental courses, majors, and programs with  incoming first-year and transfer students in his role as Orientation Leader within UGA's Division of…

French major Mark Adams has been awarded a prestigious Boren Scholarship to study French in Senegal, through Boren’s African Flagship Languages Initiative.  Mark was also the winner of a research fellowship supported by a departmental grant from Villa Albertine and the French Embassy in Washington DC's French in Higher Education program. Mentored by Dr. Timothy Raser, he conducted research on the poetry of French author Michel Houellebecq,…

Eliot Westdorp, doctoral student in Romance Linguistics in the Department of Romance Languages, was recently interviewed by the Galician newspaper Faro de Vigo. He spoke to them about his dissertation research on the Galician language as it is spoken on the Illa de Arousa.

Congratulations to Dr. María González-Ferrer, who successfully defended her doctoral dissertation, entitled "La reduplicación del clítico dativo en español: Adquisición en la L2 y variación" [Dative clitic doubling in Spanish: L2 Acquisition and variation] on May 21, 2025. ¡Enhorabuena, María!  We wish Dr. González-Ferrer the best in her new position as Lecturer of Spanish at Brown University starting in fall 2025.

Cecília Rodrigues, Associate Professor of Portuguese in the Department of Romance Languages, has been awarded the Consortium of Latin American Studies Programs (CLASP) 2025 Excellence in Language Education Award.  The prize this year recognized exceptional leadership in Portuguese language instruction, pedagogy, curriculum development, and the promotion of the study of this language in the US. This is a major national and…

Sharina Maíllo-Pozo, Assistant Professor in the Department of Romance Languages, has been awarded the Consortium of Latin American Studies Programs (CLASP) 2025 Faculty Teaching Award. This is a major national and interdisciplinary distinction, given that the competition was open to early-career faculty from over thirty US institutions, with nominees representing the broad constellation of humanities and social sciences found in Latin American…

Service-learning dance course unites students across cultures and generations Fuad Elhage, Senior Lecturer of Spanish in Franklin College’s Department of Romance Languages, has taught Diversity Through Dance since 2010. The course allows students to spend each class period connecting to the Spanish language and culture through music and dance. However, for two semesters, the course has been adapted to integrate a service-learning component,…