Professor Elizabeth Wright is the recipient of this year's Albert Christ-Janer Award, recognizing “an outstanding body of nationally and internationally recognized scholarly or creative activities in the creative arts and humanities.”

Congratulations to the organizers of the 49th Linguistics Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL) having been awarded a National Science Foundation grant in support of this prestigious conference, which will be hosted at UGA May 1-3, 2019. 

ROML M.A. graduate Fatoumata Seck interviews Senegalese novelist Boubacar Boris Diop in French newspaper Le Monde. Seck is currently Assistant Professor of French at the College of Staten Island.

Congratulations to UGA International Affairs and Spanish major student Ian Brusenhan, whose work on the economic, social, and political changes faced by the Mexican immigrant woman has been published in The Classic, the Writing Intensive Program’s journal of undergraduate writing and research. You can read "Mexican Women, Immigration, and the Consequent Transformation in Identity"in the current issue, 3.2, online by clicking here.  

Lilian Zhu, who graduated in May 2018 with a double major in Romance Languages and Latin American and Caribbean Studies, is teaching English at a federal university in Brazil. https://news.uga.edu/student-fulbrights-18-19/

Emily McGinn is director of the Willson Center Digital Humanities Lab. This event is part of the Interdisciplinary Modernism/s Workshop, a Willson Center Faculty Research Cluster. If you have questions or are interested in presenting your research, please contact the workshop co-directors: Susan Rosenbaum (English) atsrosenb@uga.edu or Nell Andrew (Art History) at nandrew@uga.edu.

Roberto Tejada is the author of art histories that include National Camera: Photography and Mexico’s Image Environment (2009); a monograph on pioneering Chicana conceptual artist Celia Alvarez Muñoz (2009), and such catalog essays as “Los Angeles Snapshots” in Now Dig This!: Art and Black Los Angeles, 1960-1980 (Hammer Museum, 2011); as well as poetry collections that include Full Foreground (2012), Exposition Park (2010), Mirrors for Gold (2006), and Todo en el ahora (2015).

Lecture by Dr. Nora Benedict, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton University and candidate for the position of Assistant Professor of Spanish in the Department of Romance Languages 

“Assembling Pages, Correcting Proofs”:

Borges as author, editor, and publisher

Monday, January 14, 5 p.m. 

118 Gilbert Hall

Reception to follow at The Globe, 2nd floor