The Council of Editors of Learned Journals presented its 2019 award for Best Journal Design to Elizabeth Wright, Professor in the Department of Romance Languages, at the Modern Language Association's January conference. Wright is the editor of Bulletin of the Comediantes, now based at UGA; CELJ  praised the journal’s multicultural perspectives and cover designs that speak to the cultural and material history of Spanish “Golden Age” theater.

Catherine Jones, Professor of French and Provençal in the Department of Romance Languages, has been named Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques by the French Ministry of Education. This honor, originally created by Napoleon in 1808, is awarded to distinguished academics to recognize their service to French culture. 

We are happy to invite you to our new workshop How to Be an Effective Writer and Stay Sane. Dr. Magdalena Matuskova, PhD from UCLA, and certified yoga kundalini instructor, has graciously agreed to share her knowledge and experience and give this workshop. The main goal is to teach us self-care techniques and effective writing techniques.

This workshop will take place Friday, February 7th, from 4.00 to 6.30 at Gilbert 112.

The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded a research fellowship to Rachel Gabara, associate professor in the University of Georgia Franklin College of Arts and Sciences’ department of Romance languages, funded as a part of more than $30 million in new NEH grants for 188 humanities projects nationwide. 

On Wednesday, January 29, Lisa LaCross, Teaching and Learning Specialist in the Center for Teaching and Learning, will join us for a workshop entitled, "Documenting Your Teaching Effectiveness." The workshop will take place from 4:00-5:00 PM in Gilbert Hall 112.

Here is a brief description: How do you know/show that your teaching is effective? This workshop explores methods to document your teaching impact and how to translate your teaching effectiveness into an academic job application.

We hope to see you there!

The GSO cordially invites you to the presentation of:

Marta Huduskova

f you would like to participate in the GSO Colloquium series, please contact the colloquium planning committee at: 

romlcolloquiumseries@gmail.com

Spanish and World Language Education major Kristian Joi Walker is UGA's Amazing Student this week! She selected Romance Languages faculty member Tim Gupton as her favorite professor. 

Deborah Cohn, Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Indiana University-Bloomington, will give a lecture entitled "Cold War American Studies: Robert Spiller, the U.S. Information Agency, and the American Studies Certificate." Part of her current research project, "Cold War Humanities," Cohn's talk examines the history of an American studies academic certificat developed at the behest of the U.S. Information Agency, which targeted non-citizens outside the United States.

The GSO cordially invites you to the following event:

Special Guest Presentation

Dr. Jane Tylus  (Yale University)

"Italy at the Margins of Empire: Pastoral as a Way of Seeing"

If you would like to participate in the GSO Colloquium series, please contact the colloquium planning committee at: 

romlcolloquiumseries@gmail.com

Film screening and Q & A with filmmaker Fred Kuwornu. Kuwornu, activist-producer-writer-director, was born and raised in Italy and is of Italian-Ghanaian descent.18 IUS SOLI: The Right to Be Italian (2012) is an award-winning grassroots documentary about the issue of citizenship for the over 1,000,000 children born in Italy to immigrant parents, who are denied citizenship because they have no Italian “blood”. This event is made possible by the generous support of: The Departments of Romance Languages, and Theatre & Film Studies; The Willso