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Left to right: Alvaro Ley Garrido, Talita Nassur, and Michel Soares do Carmo
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

Poorvaja Joganpalli holding up her prize
Congratulations to Poorvaja Joganpalli for winning National French Week Trivia

Poorvaja earned one of the highest scores on the National French Week quiz. This trivia event, open to students and faculty, was a part of a week-long national celebration of French and the Francophone world. 
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Marie Currie


Priscilla Scarpaci

Priscilla Scarpaci is a PhD student in French at UGA. She holds a Master's degree in French from Georgia State University, where her research delved into the diverse experiences of French-speaking communities in the United States, particularly in Louisiana and Maine. This background informs her current interest in exploring the cultural exchange between different artistic mediums and social contexts within French history, specifically 17th…


Okikiola Olusanu


Allonah Ezro-Christy

I'm a second-year Ph.D. student in Romance Language Linguistics and instructor of record for SPAN 2001.  Between completing my M.A. and starting my Ph.D. here at UGA, I was a lecturer for 5 years at SUNY Potsdam in Northern New York teaching Spanish, French, and English for non-native speakers. I also volunteered with AFS as a liaison and orientation coordinator for high school students from abroad studying in the U.S. Study abroad holds…


Carine Sigaud

Carine Sigaud is a PhD student in Francophone Studies at the University of Georgia. Her research focuses on taking a linguistic approach to study literary texts. She is especially interested in the way authors have represented different categories of underrepresented peoples' speech as well as the sociological and philosophical implications of these stylistic choices. She wrote her masters theses on 19th century post realism, with a particular…


Anaïs Jandot

My name is Anaïs Jandot (they/them). I was born in Lyon, France. I am a 28-year old non-binary scholar in arts and humanities. I moved to the US in July 2019 and met my husband Colin a few months later. I am the proud owner of two cats and three greyhounds who make my home the happiest place on earth. I studied at the University of Jean Moulin Lyon III for 5 years and had the pleasure to work with Dr. Lawrence Gasquet on my master’s thesis. At…


Raymond Friedman


Bénédicte Beall-Lebéhot

Bénédicte Beall-Lebéhot earned her Ph.D in French from Rutgers University in 2018. Her dissertation, entitled ''Trouver sa voi(e)(x) sur grand écran: les acteurs-chanteurs du cinéma français des années 30 aux années 50'', is a study of actor-singers in French cinema from the 30s to the 50s and the entertaining commercial musicals and operettas in which they performed.
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