The Department of Romance Languages offers graduate programs in French, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish leading to M.A. and Ph.D. degrees. We are one of the most productive departments at the University of Georgia, with a large faculty of professors who specialize in research on literature, linguistics and film.

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Our graduate programs favor a contextualized and integrated approach to the research of language and cultural production. Texts are studied as components in a broad network of interrelated artistic, political, and economic practices and institutions. The learning process is structured in such a way as to combine language, culture and theory both at the level of individual courses and in the graduate curriculum as a whole.

We currently have a large and diverse group of graduate students from the USA, Africa, Asia, Europe, the Caribbean and Latin America working together in a collegial environment. Students complete the requirements for the M.A. in 2 years and the requirements for the Ph.D. in 4-5 years.

Our graduate students go on to productive careers. See where our alumni are now: M.A. Alumni Ph.D. Alumni

According to the The Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index, the Romance Languages Ph.D. program at UGA is currently ranked number 10 in the U.S. among language programs, just after top programs such as those at the University of Pennsylvania, Ohio State University, Carnegie Mellon University, University of Chicago, University of New Mexico, Columbia University, Vanderbilt University, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. See rankings.

The Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index is produced on an annual basis and it is a method for evaluating doctoral programs at Research Universities (across all Carnegie research classifications), based on a set of statistical algorithms. It measures the annual productivity of faculty on several factors including publications (books and journal articles), citations of journal publications, federal research funding, awards and honors. This Index is unique in its focus on concrete data relating to faculty scholarly productivity. It contains no reputational assessments, and is unrivaled in the depth and detail of its content, even compiling data in areas where other assessments have found difficulty. For more information: you can read about it in "The Chronicle of Higher Education" (Nov. 16, 2007 issue) and also in the direct link to Academics Analytics.

ASSISTANTSHIPS, FELLOWSHIPS AND SCHOLARSHIPS

Departmental teaching assistantships are awarded for 4 semesters to M.A. students and an additional 10 semesters to Ph.D. students who qualify. Additional financial support is offered through the UGA Graduate School. Current graduate teaching assistant stipends and information on financial assistance

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FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT

Maryanna Axson
Administrative Specialist I
maxson@uga.edu
Phone 706-542-3591

Prof. Catherine M. Jones
Graduate Coordinator
cmjones@uga.edu

Prof. Nina Hellerstein
Department Head
hellerst@uga.edu

Prof. Dana Bultman
Associate Head
dbultman@uga.edu

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