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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 Celebrates Growth and Innovation

Together, our Italian faculty are creating dynamic, immersive experiences, from interactive reading workshops to community engagement, making Italian at UGA more vibrant than ever.  This fall, the Italian program welcomed two new faculty, Dr. Giampaolo Molisina and Dr. Massimiliano Lorenzon as the program celebrates a seventeen percent increase in Italian minors over the past year.Follow us on Instagram: @italian.uga for photos and…

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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  
Romance Linguistics

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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

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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 workload. My deep…
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 for summer orientation. 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…

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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 and good luck as you step into your new role as Assistant Teaching Professor of Spanish at Brown University starting in fall 2025. Dr. María González-Ferrer 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! 
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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