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!

On April 20th 2026, Spanish faculty member Mark Anderson presents keynote speech on "Las humanidades en tiempos de crisis" at the 3^rd Annual Inquorum International Conference on Humanities Research at the Universidad de Monterrey in Monterrey, Mexico.

Read more about his presentation here! 

Faculty authors share thoughts on their newly published works, followed by a graduate student-led conversation. Open to the UGA community and public.

Featured authors: Dr. Luis Correa-Díaz, Dr. Paola de Santo, Dr. Rachel Gabara, and Dr. Emily Sahakian. Graduate respondents: Michel Soares do Carmo, Francisco Zamparini, and Gabby Weatherby.

Dr. Andries Coetzee (University of Michigan) will be the second speaker in this year’s talk series, Language Variability in Latin America, funded by the Willson Center. He will be giving a research talk and lead a more informal, interdisciplinary discussion.  Information and abstracts for both are below.

Research talk: Language, Place and Identity in Post-Colonial Societies: Three Case Studies from Afrikaans, Gilbert Hall RM 118, 1:15-2:10pm