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!

Amelia Parenteau will discuss her work to translate French playwright Eva Doumbia's award-winning play Le iench (slang for The Dog) for its English - Language premiere at Spelman College in October 2027.

Lucas Williams, a second-year Biomedical Physiology major and Spanish minor, spent six weeks in Sevilla, Spain, through the UGA en España program. Living with a host family, taking Spanish courses, and traveling throughout the country gave him the opportunity to strengthen his language skills while experiencing Spanish culture, traditions, and everyday life firsthand.

What drew you to this study abroad program and what did you hope to learn or experience?

It is with great pleasure that we invite you all to our first Romance Languages Colloquium Event of the semester. On the 13th of October, we will host an academic presentation by PhD student Priscilla Scarpaci in Gilbert Hall 360, starting at 5 PM. After a brief introduction of the event, our panelist will present for around 15 minutes, and a 15-minute Q&A will follow.

Further information can be found here!