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I have a Master's degree in Romance Languages from the University of Georgia (UGA). I am currently a PhD candidate in the same program with a dissertation that features the relationship between Brazil and Latin America. I first arrived at UGA as a Fulbright Portuguese Teaching Assistant in 2015-2016. I have taught different levels of Portuguese since then, from Elementary proficiency to Full Professional working proficiency, following the ACTFL…
Kate advises (60 credit hour +)  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.
(Ph.D. University of Iowa, 2010) Research (my ORCID) I am associate professor of Hispanic linguistics specializing in syntax. This means that I study sentence structure and word order. In my research, I seek to discover insight on how language structure is represented within the human mind—in monolinguals as well as bilinguals/multi-linguals. I do this by focusing on a variety of constructions in language.  My current research…
Dr. Richard A. Gordon (Ph.D. Brown University, 2002) is Professor of Brazilian and Spanish-American Literature and Culture at the University of Georgia, Principal Investigator of UGA's Department of Education Title VI NRC and FLAS grants, and Co-Director of UGA's Department of Defense Portuguese Flagship Program. His research focuses largely on historical film and social identity, specifically, the capacity for cinema to influence how…

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