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Exploring Expression and Unity Through Bad Bunny's Music

This story was originally published in The Franklin Chronicles on October 30, 2025 This fall, Sharina Maíllo-Pozo, associate professor in the Department of Romance Languages, taught a First Year Odyssey class focused on rapper, singer, and record producer Bad Bunny and the reggaetón music genre, which encouraged students to engage with Bad Bunny’s music from global and personal perspectives.   Maíllo-Pozo gave an overview of her seminar: “…

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Celebrating Achievements in Portuguese Studies

The Portuguese program has had an exciting year filled with student success, faculty recognition, and vibrant cultural events! Dr. Cecília Rodrigues has been awarded the Consortium of Latin American Studies Programs 2025 Excellence in Language Education award.   Undergraduate student, Madison Dixon, earned a Boren Scholarship as a Portuguese Flagship student and, graduate student, Elisa Braga, published an article in June…

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Dr. Giampaolo Molisina Delivers Keynote at Florida Atlantic University Film Retrospective

Dr. Giampaolo Molisina of the University of Georgia’s Department of Romance Languages, delivered the keynote address at Florida Atlantic University’s Film Retrospective dedicated to Rome on November 6. The event, organized by FAU’s Italian Program within the Department of Languages, Linguistics, and Comparative Literature, brought together an enthusiastic audience of graduate and undergraduate students as well as members of the local community.…

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Italian at UGA Celebrates Growth and Innovation

This fall, the Italian program welcomed two new lecturers, Dr. Giampaolo Molisina and Dr. Massimiliano Lorenzon, as the program celebrates a 17% increase in Italian minors over the past year.   Dr. Giampaolo Molisina brings experiential learning to ITAL 2002 with activities like a tiramisu workshop, visits to Special Collections to view rare Italian texts, and bilingual tours at the Georgia Museum of Art. Dr. Massimiliano…

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Romance Languages Students and Faculty Presenting at HLS 2025

Next week, students and faculty in Romance linguistics will be presenting linguistic research on Romance Languages at the 2025 Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, hosted by the University of Arizona in Tucson, AZ November 13-15, 2025  
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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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