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!

Join us next week, April 17th, from 5:00 to 7:00 in Gilbert Hall 113, for an Afternoon of Art in Portuguese with MA student Elisa Braga and Dr. Vera Bulla. 

Come make your own painting inspired by Monique Malcher's writing. 

REGISTRATION REQUIRED. Everybody is welcome! 

María González-Ferrer has been selected as a recipient of a 2024 Sigma Delta Pi (SDP) Graduate Research Grant Award among a very competitive pool of applicants nationwide. This will be a huge help in funding María's dissertation research project on clitic doubling in the Spanish of Spain, Argentina, and Mexico. ¡Enhorabuena, María!

French major Caitlin Lyons has been named Scholar-Athlete of the year by the Southeastern Conference. An accomplished equestrian, Lyons graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Ecology in 2023 and will receive her Bachelor of Arts in French next month. A three-time recipient of UGA Presidential Scholar Honors, she has been named to the J. Reid Parker Director of Athletics Honor Roll every semester for four years.  

Romance Languages B.A. and M.A. graduate (2017) and former Foundation Fellow Joy Peltier, now Assistant Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature and Linguistics Program at the University of South Carolina, has won a highly competitive and prestigious research fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies.