Tags: Spanish


Brenda Ross


Vanessa Revheim

Vanessa Revheim is a Ph.D. student in Hispanic Linguistics at the University of Georgia. She has been actively engaged in community-based learning, serving as a teaching assistant for SPAN/LACS 4090S: Practicum in Service Learning, where she supported students’ partnerships with Spanish-speaking communities in Athens, GA. Vanessa’s research focuses on heritage language acquisition, particularly the maintenance of Brazilian Portuguese in…


Flor Adams

My name is Flor Adams and I am a PhD student here at UGA in Hispanic Linguistics and am also completing the graduate certificates in Women's Studies and Interdisciplinary Qualitative Studies. Currently, I teach SPAN 1001/1002/1110. My research interests include: Post-structuralism/Post-humanism and Queer theory, Discourse Analysis, Raciolinguistics, sociopragmatics.   


Allonah Ezro-Christy

I'm a second-year Ph.D. student in Romance Language Linguistics and instructor of record for SPAN 2001.  Between completing my M.A. and starting my Ph.D. here at UGA, I was a lecturer for 5 years at SUNY Potsdam in Northern New York teaching Spanish, French, and English for non-native speakers. I also volunteered with AFS as a liaison and orientation coordinator for high school students from abroad studying in the U.S. Study abroad holds…


Mario Juárez Sánchez


Rocío Jiménez Segura


Alvaro Ley Garrido

My name is Álvaro Ley Garrido and I'm a PhD candidate in Hispanic Studies at UGA. I also serve as a Teaching Assistant in the Spanish Program (courses regularly taught are SPAN2001 & SPAN2550). My current fields are Spanish Golden Age culture, Latinx Studies, and Translation Studies, and I also worked in Nineteenth century Peninsular literature for most of my years during my B.A.


Nicole Casnettie


Eliot Westdorp

Hola! My name is Eliot Westdorp and I am a PhD candidate in the Hispanic Linguistics program as well as a Spanish TA at the University of Georgia. My areas of study include sociolinguistics (language variation and change, dialectology, bilingualism, language contact, language attitudes), L2 pronunciation acquisition, and applied linguistics with my focus on languages of the Iberian Peninsula.


Nora Benedict

I am a book historian and digital humanist who focuses on the development of the publishing industry in twentieth-century Latin America. A commonly overlooked fact of every book is the material evidence of its production and manufacture; this has been the central point of departure for much of my research. Instead of examining variants from manuscripts to printed text, my research relies on an analysis of the physical features of any given…
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