Congratulations to Romance Languages doctoral students Vera Bulla and Bethany Bateman McDonald, who have won UGA's prestigious Excellence-in-Teaching and Excellence-in-Research Awards!

Welcome to João Pedro Gomes! This is his first semester teaching Portuguese to UGA students as a Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant (FTLA) in the Department of Romance Languages. He shares his reflections on the importance of language learning and culture:

Oumelbanine Nina Zhiri, professor of French at the University of California San Diego, will give a lecture entitled “Ahmad al-Hajarî, Worldmaker.” Zhiri will be hosted at UGA by the Early Modern Studies Research Group, an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant-funded research project in the Global Georgia Initiative of the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts. Matching funds are provided by Franklin College of Arts and Sciences and the departments of English, History, Romance Languages, and Theatre and Film Studies.

Congratulations to Evelyn Saavedra Autry, a doctoral candidate in Hispanic Studies, who has been granted the prestigious and highly competitive Dissertation Completion Award for her work on "Indigenous Female Subjectivities and Andean Voices in Contemporary Cultural Productions of the Peruvian Internal Armed Conflict (1980-2000)."

Two Romance Language majors have been granted Fulbright English Teaching Assistantships. Please join us in congratulating Geoffrey Nolan (Spanish and International Affairs) and Melissa Siegel (French, Political Science, and Sociology), who will be travelling next year to teach English in Baranquilla, Colombia and Malaysia, respectively. Follow this link to an interview with them in Georgia E-News!

It is with great pleasure that we invite you all to our first Romance Languages Colloquium Event of the semester. On the 13th of October, we will host an academic presentation by PhD student Priscilla Scarpaci in Gilbert Hall 360, starting at 5 PM. After a brief introduction of the event, our panelist will present for around 15 minutes, and a 15-minute Q&A will follow.

Further information can be found here!

On Wednesday, September 23rd, UGA’s chapter of the Pi Delta Phi National French Honor Society hosted a picnic on New College Lawn. It was a wonderful occasion for PDP members to catch up with each other and ROML Faculty, as well as getting the word out about our organization to prospective new members. Drs. Ovrom and Denino from ROML’s French section were in attendance, as was department head Dr. Bultman. The organizers were also thrilled that Professor Emerita of French Nina Hellerstein was able to stop by and join in the festivities.