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Six Romance Languages Graduate Students Receive 2024 Outstanding Teaching Award

Every year the Center for Teaching and Learning recognizes the significant contributions graduate students make to the instructional mission of the University of Georgia through Teaching Awards sponsored by the Office of the Vice President for Instruction. This year, graduate students Erin Bolívar (PhD candidate in Hispanic Studies & Italian), María González-Ferrer (PhD candidate in Hispanic Linguistics), Álvaro Ley Garrido (PhD student in…
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Portuguese, Linguistics, Spanish, French

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Romance Languages Alumni Invited for Portuguese Flagship Professional Development Event

The Portuguese Flagship Program (PFP) proudly hosted a Professional Development event recently that brought together current PFP students and nearly 30 alumni from cohorts dating back to our very first overseas capstone group in 2013. Among the panelists, we had Romance Languages Majors: Mateo Villa '14, Rachel Osnos '14, Taylay Obeng-Akrofi' 15, Natalia Sanchez '16, Alejandro Espinosa '17, Jamie Sauerbier '19, and Baleigh Preston '21. …
Portuguese, Portuguese Courses


Portuguese Language Flagship Domestic Grant Renewed

The Portuguese Flagship Program is thrilled to announce that our Language Flagship Domestic Grant has been renewed for an additional four years. Since 2011, our mission has been to provide students from all majors with funded opportunities to become global professionals by achieving professional proficiency in Portuguese and becoming area experts in Brazil. We eagerly anticipate another four years of exciting cultural and professional…
Portuguese, Portuguese Courses

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Congratulations to Dr. Sarah Hubbel!

Congratulations to Sarah Hubbel, who successfully defended her doctoral dissertation, entitled "Predicate constituent order variation in the Andes: A comparative analysis of Andean Spanish and bilingual Cusco Quechua" on March 27, 2024.
Spanish, Romance Linguistics, Linguistics

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Rachel Gabara Named Brinning Professor

Professor Rachel Gabara has been named the first Nancy Gillespie Brinning Professor in French.  The Department of Romance Languages is delighted to congratulate Professor Gabara and to celebrate Mrs. Brinning's legacy.  Brinning was a French major who graduated cum laude from the University of Georgia in 1948 and enjoyed a highly distinguished, path-breaking career at Piedmont Natural Gas Company in Charlotte, North Carolina.  She…

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New Romance Linguistics faculty co-publication with UGA alumnus

The article "Processing dissociations between raising and control in Brazilian Portuguese" recently appeared in the First View portion of the Journal of Linguistics. This article was co-published by UGA Department of Linguistics alumnus Dr. Douglas Merchant (PhD, 2019) and Dr. Timothy Gupton. This project started before the Covid-19 pandemic, and is the first manuscript resulting from this collaboration. Congratulations to them! 
Portuguese, Romance Linguistics, Linguistics

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Congratulations to Dr. Ningxian Li!

Congratulations to Ningxian Li, who successfully defended his doctoral dissertation, entitled "V(P) copying in Spanish and Chinese" on January 26, 2024. In his dissertation, Li compares the syntax, semantics, and information structure of verb-fronting and predicate-fronting constructions in Mandarin Chinese and Spanish. The committee was impressed by the coherence and organization of his argumentation. ¡Felicitaciones, Dr. Li!   Sarah…
Spanish, Romance Linguistics

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Spanish Undergraduate Publication in The Classic Journal

This December, David Burke's essay “El mal de Chagas: Su historia y la necesidad de financiar las vacunas para lucharlo” appears in The Classic, the Writing Intensive Program’s journal of undergraduate writing and research. David's paper analyzes how widespread the Chagas disease is in Latin America and the Southern United States and the urgent support needed for vaccine development.  You can read the latest issue and find out more about…
Spanish, Romance Languages, Literature, Undergraduate Students

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Clemencia El Antouri Awarded Pickering Fellowship

Congratulations to Clemencia El Antouri for receiving a Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowship for students interested in careers in the U.S. Department of State Foreign Service. A major in Romance Languages (Spanish and French) and International Affairs, she will receive a scholarship of $84,000 for graduate school, an internship at Capitol Hill, an internship at a US embassy abroad, and entrance after graduate school into the Foreign…

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Dr. Fernanda Guida and Spelman Portuguese Program Visit Portuguese Flagship students at UGA

On October 31st, the Portuguese Flagship Program at UGA hosted Dr. Fernanda Guida (Spelman College), three students from Spelman College (Amyre Hobbs, Annis Baron, Latisha Jones), one student from Morehouse (Carleon Outlaw), and Portuguese Fulbright Teaching Assistant (Yasmin Paiva de Siqueira). This event promoted a student-student, student-faculty and faculty-faculty interaction through a collaboration of the Portuguese Programs at UGA and…
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