UGA's Columns features Dr. Betina Kaplan and Kerry Steinberg in an article about SPAN 4090. Please click here to access the full article. 

Congratulations to Spanish Professor Luís Correa-Díaz, who "was unanimously elected as a US-based Member of the Chilean Academy of Languages (Academia Chilena de la Lengua), in recognition of his 'outstanding merits as a writer, poet, and literary critic.'"

The Department of Romance Languages would like to congratulate Spanish and Geography major Sarah Mizrah on winning the prestigious Harry S. Truman scholarship!  Please click here to access the full article. 

French graduate Student Kathleen Rizy will discuss ecofeminism, Spanish graduate student Marcela Reales will discuss extractivism, Spanish professor Mark Anderson will discuss material subjectivities, and French professor Jonathan Krell will discuss ecohumor.

The following three papers on Guaraní linguistics will be presented:

Kerry Steinberg (UGA) “Language use, language attitude, and mobility: The case of the rural and urban areas of Coronel Oviedo, Paraguay”

Elizabeth Herring (Indiana Unversity) “A historical and comparative investigation on the origins of Guaraní question markers Pa, Pio and Piko”

Bruno Estigarribia, PhD (UNC-Chapel Hill) “The status of morphologically mixed words in Guarani-Spanish mixing”

Dr. Rielle Navitski of the Department of Theater and Film Studies at the University of Georgia will present her research on representations of violence in Mexican film from the Revolutionary period.

Invited speaker Dr. Ana Maria Carvalho (University of Arizona) will present her talk “Portuguese in contact with Spanish: Evidence for language divergence”.

This talk was organized by the 2013 Portuguese Linguistics in the United States (PLUS) Organizing Committee. It is sponsored by the Willson Center, the President's Venture Fund, LACSI, the Portuguese Flagship Program, and the Department of Romance Languages.

Please see the flyer below for more information on the Graduate Student Roundtable at 4:30 PM on Friday, March 21 in Gilbert 115.

Graduate Student Roundtable flyer.pdf

Cinecittà is the annual Italian movie night series organized by the Italian section of the Department of Romance Languages and this year we are at its 6th edition.

For this 6th edition we selected of four films that deal with resistance, insurgency and terrorism under the clash of competing ideologies. Click here to view the flyer.