Tags: Spanish


Rosa Chavez-Otero

Born and raised in Trujillo, Peru. Worked in Peru as an English as a Foreign Language teacher for a Binational Center for eight years. Worked in elementary and high school level teaching English. Worked at Universidad Cesar Vallejo and Universidad Privada del Norte teaching English to undergraduate students to fulfill their foreign language requirement. Moved to Athens, GA to pursue graduate school in Spanish Linguistics. After graduation, have…


Alberto Villate-Isaza

Alberto Villate Isaza specializes in Latin American colonial literature, culture and historiography, particularly in the New Kingdom of Granada. Other interest and areas of research include social and political theory of the baroque, discourses of Latin American national identity, and nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Latin American literature, especially modernismo. He is the author of Exemplary Violence: Rewriting History in…


Elena V. Sarmiento


Kate Daley-Bailey

Kate advises (2nd year and beyond) French, Romance Languages (including Italian and Portuguese tracks), and some Spanish majors (last name H-Z). She is the main contact for Italian and Portuguese minor questions. Kate Daley-Bailey received her A.B. (2001) and M.A. (2004) degrees in Religion from the University of Georgia. She taught Religion courses at the collegiate level for ten years at Georgia State University, Georgia Perimeter College,…


Martin Ward

I am a Lecturer in Spanish and Supervisor of the Spanish Language Program. My teaching and research explore 20th- and 21st-century Latin American literature and culture, with particular attention to queer representation before, during, and after Latin American dictatorships. My work examines how literature and film negotiate power, space, and identity in the post-dictatorship era.   In addition to my literary scholarship, I teach courses in…


Bethany Bateman

Dr. Bethany Bateman is a Lecturer for the Department of Romance Languages (SPAN 1110, 2001, 2002, 3010, 3050) and Quechua Instructor (QUEC 1001, 1002, 2001, 2002) for the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Institute at UGA.  Her primary research interests include: sociolinguistics, Andean Spanish, Quechua, and language contact.


Luis Correa-Díaz

Ph.D., Catholic University of America (Washington, D.C.) Dr. Correa-Diaz has research and teaching interests in Latin American & Spanish Poetry, Critical Theory and Cultural Studies, Human Rights, Science (cosmology) and Literature, and Digital Humanities. He is the author of 1) Novissima Verba: huellas digitales y cibernética en la poesía latinoamericana (RIL Editores/Academia Chilena de la Lengua); 2) Cervantes y/en (las) Américas:…


Manuel Pinto Barragán


Kerry Steinberg

Kerry Steinberg is a Lecturer of Spanish in the Department of Romance Languages, where she also serves as the Preceptor for SPAN 1110. She teaches courses including accelerated elementary Spanish (SPAN 1110/1110E), SPAN 2001 (Intermediate Spanish I), and SPAN 4090S (Practicum in Service Learning). In her role as instructor of the service-learning practicum course SPAN 4090S, Steinberg has been recognized with the 2025 Service-Learning…


Samantha D. Osborne

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