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Jane Malicki

My current research interests center around the field of Second Language Acquisition, specifically the acquisition of French by speakers of other Romance languages, the development of oral competency in French, and Portuguese as a third language.


Michelle Fulton

Michelle Fulton is a doctoral candidate in Romance languages with an emphasis on 19th century French Literature. Previously, she studied Vocal Performance at the University of Kentucky with a minor in French, and then continued on into the Master's program at the University of Kentucky pursuing a degree in French and Francophone Studies. She has also participated in the Lexington-Deauville Sister City Exchange Program, in which she taught…


Jonathan Haddad

Jonathan Haddad specializes in 17th and 18th century French literature. His research examines the role literature plays in the mediation of discourses of Self and Other within the context of French encounters with the Islamicate world. Drawing upon the perspectives of Mediterranean Studies and cultural history, his scholarship also places the universalist aspirations of the early modern Republic of Letters in dialogue with contemporary,…


Kate Daley-Bailey

Kate advises (2nd year and beyond) French, Romance Language, and some Spanish majors (last name H-Z). She is also the main contact for Italian and Portuguese minor questions. If you are a major or minor listed above and have a question, please email Kate at rladv@uga.edu.


Sandrine Zawacki

Sandrine Zawacki is a Lecturer of French. She received a master’s degree in political science and sociology from the University of Paris IX-Dauphine in 2004. She moved to the United States in 2006 to teach at the University of Georgia. She enjoys sharing her native language and her culture with her students. She is currently writing her dissertation to earn a Ph.D. in Sociology through the University of Paris-Gustave Eiffel. Her research…


Fuad Elhage

Dancing with the Athens Stars 2018 Fuad Elhage is currently a Lecturer of Spanish for the Professions at the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences at University of Georgia (UGA), Athens, from which he also earned his PhD in education. He was raised speaking in Arabic, French, and Spanish as the context of home, school, and country shifted during different phases of his life and he now uses language and dance to keep the connections to his…


Emily Sahakian

Dr. Emily Sahakian (Ph.D., Northwestern University and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales) teaches French and Francophone literatures and culture and advanced French in the Department of Romance Languages and is the faculty liaison for a partnership between UGA and the University of the Antilles in Martinique. She is jointly appointed with Theatre & Film Studies, where she teaches theatre studies and community-based…


Jan Pendergrass

Jan Pendergrass specializes in Renaissance humanism, humanist pedagogy, epistolography and paleography. He received a master’s degree in Philosophy from the University of Munich in 1981 and a doctorate from the University François-Rabelais (Tours, France) in 1987. He has published editions and commentaries of the neo-Latin correspondence of Antoine Arlier (Droz, 1990) and Jean de Pins (Droz, 2007) and is co-author of Images et lieux de mémoire d…


Rachel Gabara

Rachel Gabara teaches literature and film in French, with a particular focus on nonfiction and historical fiction from Europe and sub-Saharan Africa. Her students work to improve their spoken and written French while studying how and why French is used around the world, developing skills relevant to a wide range of international careers. The author of From Split to Screened Selves: French and Francophone Autobiography in the Third Person (…
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