Tags: Spanish


Daniela Hernández

Daniela Hernández is in her first year of her Master's program at the University of Georgia. She earned her bachelor's in World Languages and Culture with a focus in Spanish for the Professions from Georgia College & State University in 2023. Prior to enrolling at UGA, she was working with individuals aged 8 - 55  in the role of a Spanish tutor. Currently, she is a mentee for Spanish 1110 and is excited about honing her teaching skills…


Jessica Tiegs

J. Tiegs is currently a lecturer of Spanish in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences. She learned Spanish from a young age, prompting her interest in language and her later travels to Spanish-speaking countries. She has spent long periods of time working and/or doing research in Peru and Chile, as well as shorter stays in Costa Rica, Ecuador and Spain. Her training is as a laboratory phonologist working with Romance Languages. She studies…


Caroline Schneider

Caroline recently graduated with an M.A. from the Department of Linguistics at UGA. Caroline is originally from Raleigh, NC, and attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. There she studied Linguistics, Romance studies, and Spanish Translation & Interpreting. In 2021 she participated in the Global Studies and Spanish summer program at the University of Deusto in Bilbao, Spain.  Her areas of interest are Hispanic…


Brandon Carmona

Brandon Ponce Carmona holds a B.A. in Spanish & Portuguese from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. He is currently a Master’s student at the University of Georgia, with a focus on Brazilian Popular Culture, musical analysis and Portuguese language acquisition. His research interests include the sociopolitical and cultural effects of Brazilian Funk (Funk Carioca) in Brazil, the modern expansion of the genre and lyrical analysis of Funk…


Ian Turner

I am from Pine Mountain, Georgia, a rural farming community with lots of cows & veggies. I have always had a strong interest in Spanish linguistics, semiotics, and philosophy. I am interested in the structural underpinnings of language as well as the relationship between phonetics and natural language processing. While language is my passion, I have also spent the last three years working as a legal writer for an immigration law firm &…


Rachel Thomas


Jessica Morales


Isabelle Leimkuhler

Isabelle Leimkuhler is a master's student in Hispanic Linguistics in the Department of Romance Languages at the University of Georgia. Her research interests include applied linguistics, pragmatics, L2 phonology, second language acquisition, and language variation.  Isabelle currently teaches SPAN 1001 at UGA and also teaches ESL (English as a second language) at Casa de Amistad here in Athens, Georgia. In Summer 2024, she worked as a Study…


Anthony Brycen Lee


Megan Hawes

Megan Hawes is a second year MA student studying Hispanic Studies. She currently teaches at the SPAN 1001 level at UGA and is an ESL instructor for the non-profit, Casa de Amistad in Athens, Georgia. Her main areas of research interest include indigenous culture and language, second language acquisition, and exploring religious and cultural identity in literature. She currently studies Spanish, Portuguese, and Quechua (1001).
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