Congratulations to Dr. Nuño Castellanos Díez, Senior Lecturer of Spanish, for earning the Disability Resource Center Outstanding Faculty Award. The prize was awarded in October 2022 for the excellent teaching and learning accommodations he provides to his students with special needs. He shares his language teaching philosophy:

If learning a language is in most cases demanding for the student, for a person with a disability it can be a strenuous journey.  

Let's meet around 5:30pm at Little King's to have a drink and enjoy some time together outside of Gilbert.

Feel free to bring friends!

Welcome to Victória Lane Silva! 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 the importance of language learning and culture:

Caitlin Samples (PhD student, Hispanic Linguistics) was awarded a grant for her project “The Acquisition of the Uses and Meanings of Possessive Structures in Second and Heritage Languages”. The award will fund dissertation research in Querétaro, Mexico on L1 Spanish-L2 English speakers’ use of possessive structures at the interfaces.

People from all departments are welcome at this event. Please, feel free to share this info and the flyer with your students. 

Fuad Elhage, a lecturer of Spanish for the professions in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, was recognized for his “Diversity through Dance” workshop, a class offered for the Certificate in Diversity and Inclusion. Learning and Development and the Equal Opportunity Office were recognized for their partnership with Certificate in Diversity and Inclusion courses.

Students can receive 3 hours credit taking his semester long SPAN 4080 Diversity Through Dance course. Read more about the course. 

On Wednesday, November 16^th from 5-7pm, Fala Aí, the magazine of the Portuguese department at UGA,  will sponsor a French + Portuguese film night in Gilbert Hall room 118. The movie being shown is "La Cage Dorée" or "The Gilded Cage", which is a French-language comedy about the lives of Portuguese immigrants living in France. It will be subtitled in English. Light refreshments will be served, and there will be a discussion in English after the film. 

Discussion moderated by Dr. Jorge García-Granados, UGA Department of Romance Languages (hybrid format)

Trilce, by César Vallejo, was released in October of 1922, a century ago. It was a poetic work without precedent in Spanish. This conversation will feature Dr. Carlos Villacorta, Associate Professor Spanish and Chair of Modern Languages and Classics, University of Maine (via Zoom) and our own Dr. Luis Correa Díaz and Dr. Nicolás Lucero (in 116 Gilbert Hall). They will share some of their impressions of César Vallejo’s poetry.

Dr. Brian Gravely and Dr. Timothy Gupton recently published an article in the journal Isogloss on null-copula constructions in Galician and Asturian. The article is open access.

Brian Gravely is currently Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish linguistics at Emory University.