Tags: Spanish

FOR ADVISING, please send an email with your questions and information (name and 81 number) to  spanish@uga.edu. If you are in one of Dr. Arribas' classes or would like to contact her for a matter other than advising, use this e-mail arribas@uga.edu.
I am a scholar of the literature and culture of Spanish early modernity. My publications ponder the diverse writing practices with which people and communities grappled with expanded geographic and cultural horizons that came into view as a result of transatlantic navigation and empire building. I also serve as editor of the Bulletin of the Comediantes.  My publications include The Epic of Juan Latino: Dilemmas of Race and Religion in…
Author of La vuelta incompleta. Saer y la novela. Buenos Aires, Santiago Arcos Editor, 2017. Specializes in 19th and 20th century Latin American literatures, Modernization and Modernisms, Travel Writing, Journalism, politics and literature.
Dr. Betina Kaplan researches contemporary Latin American literature, visual culture, and film. She is the author of Género y violencia en la narrativa del cono sur (1954-2003), 2007. She is currently working on a project on mapping narratives of Latin American immigrants in Athens, Georgia      
My primary area of research is language variation and change, focusing on structural phenomena in the Romance Languages. More generally, I investigate the forces that shape language use and the subsequent effect that these forces have on how language evolves. The most recent extension of this research involves analyzed data from social media for evidence of language change. I am also involved in work related to Spanish/Quechua contact. For a…
(Ph.D. University of Iowa, 2010) Research (my ORCID) I was promoted to the rank of Professor effective August 2024. I specialize in syntax, which 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…
Pilar Chamorro's research focuses on the semantic and pragmatic contribution of temporal, aspectual, and modal expressions across languages. She is also interested in the semantics of plurals, the mass/count distinction, and quantification. She has done fieldwork on Spanish, Galician and Portuguese (Romance) since 2007, and on Malayalam (Dravidian) since 2013. Since 2015, she has been doing fieldwork  on Tenetehára (Tupi-Guarani) in Brazil.…
I am a scholar of early modern Spanish literature and culture. My research examines the literary and religious writings of the Spanish Empire, and how these forms continue to inform global culture and collective experience today. My publications include Heretical Mixtures: Feminine and Poetic Opposition to Matter-Spirit Dualism in Spain, 1531–1631, and a critical edition of Francisco de Osuna’s Norte de los estados, a Franciscan conduct…
My main areas of interest in research and teaching include pragmatics (particularly Gricean and neo-Gricean pragmatics), the roles of pragmatics and semantics in language use and interpretation, discourse analysis, cognitive and functional linguistics, discourse reference and anaphora, discourse connectives and markers, Spanish/English contrastive pragmatics, L2 pragmatics, and applied linguistics. My research has focused on  pragmatic,…