Tags: Romance Languages


Roman Tskhovrebov


Evan Blazowski

My name is Evan Blazowski, and I'm from Tampa, Florida!  I'm in my first year of the M.A French program after receiving my B.A in French Studies from UGA in May '25. During my undergrad at UGA, I studied French history and culture, with a particular interest in French as a medium for cultural and socio-economic exchange. I completed a senior thesis that examined and analyzed Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc's principles of French Gothic…


Yasmin Paiva de Siqueira

Yasmin Paiva de Siqueira is originally from São Paulo, Brazil. She holds a Bachelor's and Teaching Degree in Language and Literature (Portuguese and English) from The Faculty of Philosophy, Languages and Human Sciences of the University of São Paulo (FFLCH/USP).  Currently, she is a second year Master's student in the Portuguese Program in the Department of Romance Languages at the University of Georgia. Moreover, she is a…


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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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Recent Portuguese PhD student publication

The article entitled "A parte dos Críticos de 2666, de Roberto Bolaño, como análise da globalização" [The Part About the Critics, in Roberto Bolaño's 2666, as an analysis of Globalization], authored by Portuguese PhD student, Fábio Mariano, appeared in the most recent volume of the journal Revista da Associação Brasileira de Hispanistas (abehache). Congratulations to Fábio Mariano! 
Literature, Spanish, Portuguese, Romance Languages


Luana Santos

Luana I. A. Santos is a PhD student at the Department of Romance Languages at the University of Georgia. Luana also has an MA in Romance Languages from the University of Georgia and an MEd from the Federal University of Sergipe, in Brazil. Her research interests are popular culture and literature, adaptation and intermediality, performance and identity, memory and tradition. She loves art in general, music being her favorite one as she enjoys…

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Recent Romance Linguistics faculty publication

The article entitled "El foco, la estructura informativa y el ser focalizador en el español cibaeño" [Focus, information structure, and focalizing ser in Cibaeño Spanish], authored by Dr. Timothy Gupton, appeared in the most recent volume of the journal Revista International de Lingüística Iberoamericana (RILI). Congratulations to Dr. Gupton! 
Linguistics, Spanish, Romance Languages

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New Romance Linguistics Faculty Publication

The article "Why we need a gradient approach to word order" recently appeared (ahead of print) in the journal Linguistics. An Interdisciplinary Journal of the Language Sciences. This project was led by Dr. Natalia Levishna (Max Planck Institute) and Dr. Savithry Namboodiripad (University of Michigan), and was co-authored by a team of international researchers including Dr. Timothy Gupton. ​​​​This paper started as collection of separate…
Linguistics, Spanish, Romance Languages

Rhodes Scholar Natalie Navarrete
Rhodes Scholar Natalie Navarrete On Studying Spanish and Russian

Natalie Navarrete, a triple major in Spanish, Russian, and International Affairs, and a minor in Latin American and Caribbean Studies, was a 2023 Rhodes Scholar. Natalie completed a national security-focused scholarship in Kazakhstan as a Boren Scholar. She spoke with Dr. Tim Gupton, Associate Professor of Spanish Linguistics, about the value of her language studies at UGA (full video below): ...All of the language study that I've done,…
Spanish, Romance Languages
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