Tags: Romance Languages


Lais Cruz

Thu, 11/11/2021 - 8:34pm
Born and raised in São Paulo, Brazil. Language teaching experience since 2012. Fulbright Alumni. Currently a Romance Languages MA student and Portuguese Teaching Assistant. Researching Brazilian Literature with an emphasis on Clarice Lispector's work. 


Allonah Ezro-Christy

Mon, 09/06/2021 - 11:54am
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 a…


Naomi Avilés

Mon, 09/06/2021 - 10:09am


Erin Bolívar

Mon, 09/06/2021 - 10:00am
Erin Bolívar is a scholar of Hispanic Studies and a second year PhD student in the Department of Romance Languages at the University of Georgia.  Her research focuses on the portrayal of the Virgen Mary in both Spanish and Italian cultures.  As a Marian scholar, she focuses on the connections between Mother Mary as both an earthly figure and an inspirational embodiment of  humanity's highest aspirations.  Her dissertation will center on Spanish…


Lydia Ruiz

Mon, 09/06/2021 - 9:14am


Laura Isabel dos Santos Vieira

Fri, 08/09/2019 - 2:01pm
Olá! I was born in Roraima, Brazil, and I am a fourth year PhD candidate in the Portuguese program, with a Spanish minor. During my MA in Rio de Janeiro, I researched contemporary Brazilian literature and graphic novel adaptations, and the representation of indigenous identities. Back in Brazil, I was a Middle and High School teacher of Portuguese language and literature. At UGA, I am a Portuguese and Spanish Teaching Assistant, Portuguese tutor…


Luiz Roberto Farias

Fri, 08/09/2019 - 1:56pm
Luiz Roberto Farias is a Ph.D. student at The University of Georgia. He researches Brazilian cinema and literature from the state of Pernambuco, Brazil. Farias has written the preface to Hermilo Borba Filho's novel, Agá, 2019, and has taken part in the documentary by acclaimed Brazilian director Hilton Lacerda, A Prática da Anarquia: Uma leitura de Sobrados e Mocambos. Farias has an M.A in Theory of Literature at the Universidade Federal de…


María González-Ferrer

Wed, 08/08/2018 - 4:43pm
¡Hola! Born in Madrid (Spain), I am a third year Ph.D. student in the Hispanic Linguistics program. During Spring '23 semester, I will be teaching one sections of SPAN 2001, and I will serve as the Writing Intensive Program TA for the Latin American Cinema Class (SPAN 4082) with Dr.Kaplan. In the last 4 years, I taught SPAN 1002E, SPAN 1110, SPAN 1110E, SPAN 2001, and SPAN 2002. I also served as a TA for SPAN 4090 (Service Learning), and SPAN…


Jane Malicki

Wed, 08/30/2017 - 4:55pm
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.


Camila Livio Emidio

Mon, 08/08/2016 - 1:54pm
I am a PhD candidate in Romance Languages (Linguistics) at UGA. I earned a MA degree in Language Studies from the Universidade Estadual de Londrina, in Brazil, and served as a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania before coming to Athens. My work centers on Spanish and Portuguese, mostly from a comparative perspective, informed by theories of language variation and change, sociolinguistics, computational and corpus linguistics. My…
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