Congratulations to Romance Languages doctoral students Vera Bulla and Bethany Bateman McDonald, who have won UGA's prestigious Excellence-in-Teaching and Excellence-in-Research Awards!

Welcome to João Pedro Gomes! This is his first semester teaching Portuguese to UGA students as a Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant (FTLA) in the Department of Romance Languages. He shares his reflections on the importance of language learning and culture:

Oumelbanine Nina Zhiri, professor of French at the University of California San Diego, will give a lecture entitled “Ahmad al-Hajarî, Worldmaker.” Zhiri will be hosted at UGA by the Early Modern Studies Research Group, an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant-funded research project in the Global Georgia Initiative of the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts. Matching funds are provided by Franklin College of Arts and Sciences and the departments of English, History, Romance Languages, and Theatre and Film Studies.

Congratulations to Evelyn Saavedra Autry, a doctoral candidate in Hispanic Studies, who has been granted the prestigious and highly competitive Dissertation Completion Award for her work on "Indigenous Female Subjectivities and Andean Voices in Contemporary Cultural Productions of the Peruvian Internal Armed Conflict (1980-2000)."

Two Romance Language majors have been granted Fulbright English Teaching Assistantships. Please join us in congratulating Geoffrey Nolan (Spanish and International Affairs) and Melissa Siegel (French, Political Science, and Sociology), who will be travelling next year to teach English in Baranquilla, Colombia and Malaysia, respectively. Follow this link to an interview with them in Georgia E-News!

In 1895, the Lumière Brothers of Lyon, France presented their first projected motion pictures. The Lumières already owned the largest photographic company in the world when Louis and Auguste created their cinématographe, the first successful camera and projector. Their short films documented daily life and revolutionized modern entertainment and culture.

Dr. Dow will lead two engaging workshops introducing a new data collection tool called the Nasometer.

The first workshop is designed to appeal to a broad audience, especially those interested in innovative approaches to teaching pronunciation. We encourage everyone in our community—students, faculty, and language enthusiasts—to attend!

In the 1930s, Black performers were subjected to stereotypes even as they sought, and often achieved, their own opportunities to show the full range of their talents on the American screen. In pursuit of her artistic ambitions, singer/dancer/comedian Josephine Baker accepted an invitation to work in France. The resulting films, including “Princess Tam Tam” reveal what Hollywood producers in the US suppressed: a confident, sexy, scene-stealing African American woman who projected exuberance, expressiveness and raw charisma like an uncorked bottle of champagne.

Poetic realism reached sublime heights with Children of Paradise, widely considered one of the greatest French films of all time. This nimble depiction of nineteenth-century Paris’s theatrical demimonde, filmed during World War II, follows a mysterious woman (Arletty) loved by four different men (all based on historical figures): an actor, a criminal, a count, and, most poignantly, a mime (Jean-Louis Barrault, in a longing-suffused performance for the ages).