New People in the Department

As in past years, we welcome to the department our newest members, who joined Romance Languages in Fall 2006.

Graduate Students

Elizabeth Franz (French M.A.)
Corrine Kimmel (French M.A.)
Rachel Clue (French M.A.)
Vilay Lyxochouky (French Ph.D.)
Maria di Salvatore (Italian Ph.D.)
Jamille Barreto (Portuguese M.A.)
Erika Vasconcelos (Portuguese Ph.D.)
Elena Fernández (Spanish M.A.)
Javier Lluch (Spanish M.A.)
Kenneth Martin (Spanish M.A.)
William Pennington (Spanish M.A.)
Pablo Rubio-Gijón (Spanish M.A.)
Gloria Surber (Spanish M.A.)
Arthur Wendorf (Spanish M.A.)
Anne Wesserling (Spanish M.A.)
Wendy McBurney (Spanish Ph.D.)

Staff

Amy Duran (Language Resource Center)

Instructors

Scott Weintraub (Spanish)
Raúl Vázquez (Spanish)
Stephanie Howe (Spanish)
Gilles Antonielli (Italian)

Faculty

Chad Howe (photo above) comes to UGA from Ohio State University where he recently completed his dissertation entitled Cross-dialectal Features of the Spanish Present Perfect: A Typological Analysis of Form and Function. Prof. Howe’s research concerns the interplay between meaning and context and their expression in the tense/aspect systems of Spanish and Portuguese. Among his current projects is an analysis of the factors contributing to the convergence of verbal features in the language of monolinguals and bilinguals in the Andean region of South America, primarily in situations of extended linguistic contact between Spanish and Quechua. During the summer, Prof. Howe will be returning to South America to continue his fieldwork in conjunction with the Centro Bartolomé de las Casas and the Asociación Pukllasunchis in Cusco, Perú. He is also working on a project aimed at describing the circumstances that give rise to complex antecedents and the contextual factors involved in their interpretation, specifically in languages where null anaphors are possible (e.g. Spanish and Portuguese). Prof. Howe’s work has appeared in various sources including Romance Linguistics: Theory and Acquisition and Penn Working Papers in Linguistics, as well as numerous national and international conferences. While at UGA, Prof. Howe hopes to become an active member of the linguistics community and to offer students the opportunity to work with ongoing research in the field.

Nicolás Lucero (photo above) joins UGA from the University of Iowa where he earned his MA in 2003 and a doctoral degree in Spanish in 2006. His dissertation, Zona y exterioridad: personaje, narrador y diálogo en la obra de Juan José Saer, explores Saer’s aesthetics of narration as a form of critique by focusing on the elaboration of characters and narrators in his fiction. Before coming to the United States in 2001, Nicolás worked as a librarian at the Instituto de Literatura Hispanoamericana and as a teaching assistant at the Universidad de Buenos Aires, where he received a licenciatura in Modern Literatures in 2000. Lucero will teach courses in 19th and 20th century Spanish American literatures at UGA. His interests include travel writing in the 19th century, theory of the novel, and Latin American cultural theory. He is currently working on the manuscript of a book on Saer and on a research project on Latin American travelers to the United States in the first half of the 19th century. Lucero is the author of La máquina infernal (a monograph on José Rivera Indarte, a writer of the Argentine generation of 1837), and “La guerra gauchipolítica”, which appeared in volume 2 of Historia crítica de la literatura argentina (Noé Jitrik and Julio Schvartzman, eds.). An essay on Saer’s Glosa, co-authored with Daniel Balderston, is forthcoming in the critical edition of Glosa / El entenado edited by Julio Premat for Colección Archivos.