Tags: Spanish

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.

Eliot Westdorp has been selected as a recipient of a 2025 Sigma Delta Pi (SDP) Graduate Research Grant Award among a very competitive pool of applicants nationwide. This will be critical in funding Eliot's dissertation research project examining changes related to the loss of seseo and language contact between Spanish and Galician in Galicia. ¡Enhorabuena, Eliot!

Dr. Leal will present collaborative research with Elena Shimanskaya (U. Nevada-Reno) on the second language acquisition of French structures by native speakers of Spanish and English. See flyer for link to presentation abstract.

María González-Ferrer, a Ph.D. candidate in Hispanic Linguistics at UGA, has been awarded the prestigious Excellence in Teaching Award for graduate students. Graduating this May, María is one of up to five recipients of this annual honor, jointly presented by the Graduate School, the Center for Teaching and Learning, and the UGA Teaching Academy. She was recognized for her outstanding contributions to the university’s instructional mission while…

On October 28, Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa will give the lecture “Forgotten Women:  Giving Voice to the Voiceless” with a brief opening intervention by Marcela Garza, ABD and Racheal Fulford, PhD.   There will be an opportunity for Q&A and to obtain her latest novel, A Woman of Endurance.    Ms. Llanos-Figueroa is a Puerto Rican novelist and memoirist, the author of both Daughters of the Stone and her latest novel, a…

Karina Vazquez, PhD Latin American, Latino, and Iberian Studies, and Director of Community-Based Learning - University of Richmond

Ania Tizziani, PhD Universidad Nacional de Gral. Sarmiento & Council of Scientific and Technological Research (CONICET)    

15th Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas (WILA 15)  Janne Bondi Johannessen Celebration Lecture Dr. Kim Potowski (University of Illinois, Chicago) "The Triple Bullying of U.S. Heritage Speakers and How to Counter it" Young people raised in the U.S. speaking languages other than English often suffer a triple bullying. First, they are frequently subjected to discourses of “You’re in America, speak English” from some of the English…

Join us for our next Romance Languages Colloquium Event!    On the 9th of October, we will host academic presentations by Ph.D. student Flor Adams and ROML alumni Ivo Antonio de Matos Cruz in Gilbert 112, starting at 5:30PM. After a brief introduction of the event, panelists will present for around 15 minutes, and a 15-minute Q&A will follow.   Event information:   What: Romance Languages Colloquium When: …

UGA faculty, students, and community members are invited to join a reception and celebration of the release of The Oxford Handbook of Jorge Luis Borges (September 2024, Oxford University Press) edited by Dr. Nora Benedict(UGA, Department of Romance Languages) and Dr. Daniel Balderston (University of Pittsburgh, Department of Spanish and Portuguese). The Oxford Handbook of Jorge Luis Borges contextualizes the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges’s…