Tags: Spanish


Jessica Tiegs

J. Tiegs is currently a lecturer of Spanish in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences. She learned Spanish from a young age, prompting her interest in language and her later travels to Spanish-speaking countries. She has spent long periods of time working and/or doing research in Peru and Chile, as well as shorter stays in Costa Rica, Ecuador and Spain. Her training is as a laboratory phonologist working with Romance Languages. She studies…


Caroline Schneider

Caroline recently graduated with an M.A. from the Department of Linguistics at UGA. Caroline is originally from Raleigh, NC, and attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. There she studied Linguistics, Romance studies, and Spanish Translation & Interpreting. In 2021 she participated in the Global Studies and Spanish summer program at the University of Deusto in Bilbao, Spain.  Her areas of interest are Hispanic…


Brandon Carmona

Brandon Ponce Carmona holds a B.A. in Spanish & Portuguese from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. He is currently a Master’s student at the University of Georgia, with a focus on Brazilian Popular Culture, musical analysis and Portuguese language acquisition. His research interests include the sociopolitical and cultural effects of Brazilian Funk (Funk Carioca) in Brazil, the modern expansion of the genre and lyrical analysis of Funk…


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Isabelle Leimkuhler

Isabelle Leimkuhler is a master's student in Hispanic Linguistics in the Department of Romance Languages at the University of Georgia. Her research interests include applied linguistics, pragmatics, L2 phonology, second language acquisition, and language variation.  Isabelle currently teaches SPAN 1001 at UGA and also teaches ESL (English as a second language) at Casa de Amistad here in Athens, Georgia. In Summer 2024, she worked as a Study…


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Manuel Mantero

As a graduate of the Universidad de Sevilla Law School, Manuel Mantero obtained his Doctorate from the Universidad de Salamanca and was professor in the universities of Sevilla and Madrid. In 1969 he left Spain to be Professor of Spanish at Western Michigan University, arriving in 1973 at the University of Georgia where he retired in 2000 as a Distinguished Research Professor of Spanish. Among other honors, he has been awarded the Premio…

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New Faculty Member in Spanish Fascinated by Patterns of Language

A warm welcome to Dr. Brenda Ross! The Department of Romance Languages is happy to have you with us. This profile is part of a series featuring faculty members new to UGA campus in Fall 2022: Brenda M. Ross joins the Department of Romance Languages at UGA as Lecturer of Spanish. Born in the US, she lived in Uruguay for nearly twenty years and is a balanced bilingual in Spanish and English as well as fluent in Portuguese. Dr. Ross earned her…
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Michel Soares do Carmo

PhD Student and Teaching Assistant of Portuguese/Spanish at University of Georgia, Michel Soares do Carmo holds a M.A. in Linguistics and a B.A. in Languages and Literatures with a concentration in Portuguese, both from Universidade Federal de Goiás (UFG). He has extensive experience in teaching through different levels (middle and high school; university; adult education) and ages (from 12 to 71). Right before starting his PhD Studies, he was a…


Brenda Ross

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