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!

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The Department of Romance Languages is proud to announce that Dr. Sharina Maíllo-Pozo, Associate Professor of Latinx Studies and Spanish, has been selected as one of the University of Georgia’s 2025–2026 Aspire Fellows.

The Aspire Fellows program, coordinated by UGA’s Office of Faculty Affairs, supports mid-career and senior faculty in completing a signature project that extends their professional impact. Fellows engage in interdisciplinary workshops focused on leadership, project management, and team building, while fostering strong community connections across campus.

Welcome to Mariana Ribeiro Rodrigues! This is her first semester teaching Portuguese to UGA students as a Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant (FTLA) in the Department of Romance Languages. She shares her reflections on being a cultural ambassador:

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.