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Djamila Ribeiro visits campus, challenges lecture attendees to complicate their worldviews

On Oct. 17, the Black feminist scholar Djamila Ribeiro visited the University of Georgia’s campus to speak about her new book Where We Stand — her first work translated into English. “Seeing my work translated into English has been particularly rewarding as it allows my ideas to resonate with a broader audience while maintaining the core of what’s rooted in my experiences as a Black woman in Brazil,” Ribeiro said. While in Athens, Ribeiro met…
Portuguese, Guest Lecture

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UGA students and faculty present at the Hispanic Linguistics Symposium (HLS)

Numerous current and former UGA ROML linguists recently presented their research at the Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, hosted in Omaha, Nebraska October 17-19, 2024.  Congratulations to all of them! Sarah Hubbel (UGA PhD 2024, now University of North Georgia): Predicate constituent order variation in the Spanish-Quechua contact situation of Cusco, Peru Caitlin Samples (UGA/Stanford University): Four years later: is gender-inclusive…
Romance Linguistics, Spanish, Linguistics

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Portuguese PhD Student Diana Trindade Drumond Publishes Her First Book

The book titled Pode a mulher escolher? (Can women choose?), by Portuguese PhD student Diana Trindade Drumond was recently published by the Luso-Brazilian/Galician publisher Editora Urutau under their academic imprint, Margem da Palavra.Learn more about the book below: Pode a mulher escolher? (Can women choose?) explores the relationship between gender and power and how it affects women’s autonomy, offering a detailed analysis of Margaret…
Literature, Portuguese

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Recent Portuguese PhD Student Publication

The article entitled "O fruto estranho de Bernardo Kucinski" [Bernardo Kucinski's Strange Fruit], authored by Portuguese PhD student, Fábio Mariano, appeared in the most recent volume of the journal Revista de Estudos Literários da UEMS. Congratulations to Fábio Mariano! 
Literature, Portuguese, Romance Languages

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Portuguese PhD Student Speaks at the Human Rights Council Event in Geneva

Portuguese first-year PhD student, Victória Lane Silva, recently participated as a panelist in the side event Human Rights Education and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development during the 57th session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva. In her speech, she emphasized the importance of considering intersectional factors when discussing more inclusive education for Brazilian youth. Representing Instituto Cultural Steve Biko, a Brazilian…

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From USP to UGA, Fulbright Teaching Assistant from Brazil Shares His Story

Welcome to Romario Souza Santos! 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 being a cultural ambassador:Coming from a modest family, I am a first-generation college student. Before graduating, I took on several different jobs, each of which provided me with skills that later helped me navigate…
Portuguese

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Dr. Madeline Gilbert Joins Spanish Linguistics Faculty

Join us in welcoming to UGA Assistant Professor Madeline Gilbert, specialist in phonetics and phonology. Dr. Gilbert's research focuses on laboratory phonology, phonological representations, and sociophonetic variability. Before coming to Athens, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Laboratoire de Phonétique et Phonologie at the Sorbonne Nouvelle & CNRS in Paris, France. She received her PhD in Linguistics from NYU in 2022 where her…

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New Romance Linguistics faculty co-publication with ROML alumnus

The article "What formal approaches to syntactic interfaces can tell us about the syntax of preverbal and prenominal constituents in Galician" recently appeared in New Developments in Galician Linguistics, a special issue of the journal Languages guest edited by Dr. Xosé Luís Regueira and Dr. Elisa Fernández Rei, both of the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (Spain).  This article was co-authored by Dr. Timothy Gupton and UGA…
Romance Linguistics

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Portuguese Majors and Minors Win Boren Awards in 2024

The Portuguese program in Romance Languages and the Portuguese Flagship Program are proud to announce that this year six of our students were awarded the prestigious and highly competitive Boren Scholarship. This remarkable achievement deserves our heartfelt congratulations to Dalma Arteaga, Nicole Cortes, Bridget Goodman, Emily Hinckley, Connor Mason, and Davis Potts. With this distinguished honor, these students are now better equipped to…
Portuguese

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Portuguese Classes Receive Renowned Brazilian Musicians

Portuguese students in the Department of Romance Languages had the privilege of receiving Brazilian percussionist Bill Lucas and Brazilian singer Maria Kamila, lead singer of Perrengue’s band, last week to learn about Brazilian rhythms. Students were invited to join in by singing and reproducing the rhythms they learned, clapping their hands, and moving their bodies. One of the rhythms they explored was coco de roda. Coco is the Portuguese…
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