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Left to right: Alvaro Ley Garrido, Talita Nassur, and Michel Soares do Carmo
Six Romance Languages Graduate Students Receive 2024 Outstanding Teaching Award

Every year the Center for Teaching and Learning recognizes the significant contributions graduate students make to the instructional mission of the University of Georgia through Teaching Awards sponsored by the Office of the Vice President for Instruction. This year, graduate students Erin Bolívar (PhD candidate in Hispanic Studies & Italian), María González-Ferrer (PhD candidate in Hispanic Linguistics), Álvaro Ley Garrido (PhD student in…
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Portuguese, Linguistics, Spanish, French

Poorvaja Joganpalli holding up her prize
Congratulations to Poorvaja Joganpalli for winning National French Week Trivia

Poorvaja earned one of the highest scores on the National French Week quiz. This trivia event, open to students and faculty, was a part of a week-long national celebration of French and the Francophone world. 
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Rachel Floyd

Rachel Floyd holds a PhD in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching from the University of Arizona and an MA in French & Francophone Studies from the University of Tennessee. She specializes in the implementation of multiliteracies and critical pedagogies, and her research interests are mainly related to the implementation of these pedagogies in the language classroom. She has also published articles related to the development of socio-…


Marie Currie


Priscilla Scarpaci

Priscilla Scarpaci is a PhD student in French at UGA. She holds a Master's degree in French from Georgia State University, where her research delved into the diverse experiences of French-speaking communities in the United States, particularly in Louisiana and Maine. This background informs her current interest in exploring the cultural exchange between different artistic mediums and social contexts within French history, specifically 17th…


Oluwatoyin Olusanya


Okikiola Olusanu


Joshua McNeill

More information available at his linguistics department page.


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…


Brian Boomhower

Brian Boomhower is a fourth year PhD student in the Department of Romance Languages at the University of Georgia.  Research Interests: French & francophone graphic novels (bande dessinée). Additional research interests include travel narratives and francophone film.
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