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Dr. Sharina Maíllo-Pozo Named 2025–2026 Aspire Fellow

The Department of Romance Languages is proud to announce that Dr. Sharina Maíllo-Pozo, Associate Professor of Latinx Studies and Spanish, has been selected as one of the University of Georgia’s 2025–2026 Aspire Fellows. The Aspire Fellows program, coordinated by UGA’s Office of Faculty Affairs, supports mid-career and senior faculty in completing a signature project that extends their professional impact. Fellows engage in interdisciplinary…

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Bridging Worlds Through Language: A Fulbright Teaching Assistant Shares Her Journey

Welcome to Mariana Ribeiro Rodrigues! This is her first semester teaching Portuguese to UGA students as a Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant (FTLA) in the Department of Romance Languages. She shares her reflections on being a cultural ambassador:Coming from small town, I, like many of my friends, am a first-generation college student. For us, going to university represented a chance of studying the subjects we most enjoyed on a deeper…
Portuguese

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From engineering to language teaching, Fulbright Teaching Assistant shares her journey

Welcome to Késsia Shingu! This is her first semester teaching Portuguese to UGA students as a Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant (FTLA) in the Department of Romance Languages. She shares her reflections on being a cultural ambassador:  As a child and teenager, my interests varied a lot. I enjoyed all subjects, sports, music, and movies. However, I would say reading and studying the English language were big hobbies of mine.…
Portuguese

left to right: Pedro Alfaro (ILCL Director), Luis Correa-Díaz (UGA), Francisco Simon (UPLA), Elvira Hernández, Andrés Melis Jiménez (UV), Claudio Guerrero Valenzuela y Ana María Riveros (both PUCV)
Distinguished Research Professor Presents New Book in Chile

In August, Luis Correa-Díaz, Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Romance Languages, was invited by the Instituto de Literatura y Ciencias del Lenguaje (ILCL) at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso to present his new edited volume: La Bandera de Chile es extranjera en su propio país. Estudios sobre la poesía civil/insurrecta de Elvira Hernández. (Kassel/Barcelona: Edition Reichenberger, Colección Problemata…

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Embracing Community and Connection in Buenos Aires

By Amelia Rehman Around this time last year, I took home a flyer that had been hanging in Gilbert Hall, one that quickly populated many walls and crevices of the building, advertising the Buenos Aires Study Away program. I had recently changed my Spanish minor to a double major, confident that I wanted to spend the rest of my undergraduate experience strengthening my knowledge and fluency in the language, even if it meant a more demanding…
UGA en Buenos Aires, Spanish, Study Abroad

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Esteban Lazaro Named ROML Student Ambassador

French and Spanish major Esteban Lazaro has been named as the Department of Romance Languages' first Student Ambassador. A member of French National Honor Society Pi Delta Phi, Esteban studied in Montpellier last summer with UGA en France. This summer, he will be sharing information about our departmental courses, majors, and programs with  incoming first-year and transfer students in his role as Orientation Leader within UGA's Division of…

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Mark Adams Selected as Boren Scholar

French major Mark Adams has been awarded a prestigious Boren Scholarship to study French in Senegal, through Boren’s African Flagship Languages Initiative.  Mark was also the winner of a research fellowship supported by a departmental grant from Villa Albertine and the French Embassy in Washington DC's French in Higher Education program. Mentored by Dr. Timothy Raser, he conducted research on the poetry of French author Michel Houellebecq,…

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PhD student in Romance Linguistics interviewed by Galician newspaper

Eliot Westdorp, doctoral student in Romance Linguistics in the Department of Romance Languages, was recently interviewed by the Galician newspaper Faro de Vigo. He spoke to them about his dissertation research on the Galician language as it is spoken on the Illa de Arousa.
Romance Linguistics

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Dr. María González-Ferrer Successfully Defends Dissertation

Congratulations to Dr. María González-Ferrer, who successfully defended her doctoral dissertation, entitled "La reduplicación del clítico dativo en español: Adquisición en la L2 y variación" [Dative clitic doubling in Spanish: L2 Acquisition and variation] on May 21, 2025. ¡Enhorabuena, María!  We wish Dr. González-Ferrer the best in her new position as Lecturer of Spanish at Brown University starting in fall 2025.
Romance Linguistics, Spanish

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Cecília Rodrigues’s Vision for Portuguese at UGA Earns National Recognition

Cecília Rodrigues, Associate Professor of Portuguese in the Department of Romance Languages, has been awarded the Consortium of Latin American Studies Programs (CLASP) 2025 Excellence in Language Education Award.  The prize this year recognized exceptional leadership in Portuguese language instruction, pedagogy, curriculum development, and the promotion of the study of this language in the US. This is a major national and…
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