Eight Romance Languages and Spanish majors have won Boren Scholarships to study critical languages, committing to a year of federal service after graduation. Close to half of the students in this record group of UGA Boren Scholars will spend a capstone year in Brazil with our Portuguese Flagship Program. 

Graduate students from the Portuguese and Spanish programs in the Department of Romance Languages represented the University of Georgia at the Tenth Chicago Graduate Conference in Hispanic, Luso-Brazilian, and Latinx Studies, one of the premier interdisciplinary conferences for emerging scholars in the field. UGA was represented by Diana Trindade Drumond, Fabio Mariano, Yasmin Paiva de Siqueira, Fabio Passos, and Francisco Zamparini, whose participation showcased the strength and breadth of the department's graduate research.

The Department of Romance Languages at the University of Georgia proudly recognizes two exceptional graduate scholars whose work reflects excellence in research, teaching, and interdisciplinary inquiry.

Flor Adams, PhD Candidate in Hispanic Linguistics, has received the 2025–2026 Romance Languages Distinguished Research Publication Award for the article “Speculative Fabulation as Inquiry: Creative Approaches to Language Research,” published in Qualitative Inquiry (2026).

University of Georgia senior and Spanish major in the Department of Romance Languages Eliza Fausset has been selected as a 2026-28 FAO Schwarz Fellow, earning a place in one of the nation’s most selective postgraduate fellowship programs focused on social impact and nonprofit leadership.

On April 20th 2026, Spanish faculty member Mark Anderson presents keynote speech on "Las humanidades en tiempos de crisis" at the 3^rd Annual Inquorum International Conference on Humanities Research at the Universidad de Monterrey in Monterrey, Mexico.

Read more about his presentation here! 

Faculty authors share thoughts on their newly published works, followed by a graduate student-led conversation. Open to the UGA community and public.

Featured authors: Dr. Luis Correa-Díaz, Dr. Paola de Santo, Dr. Rachel Gabara, and Dr. Emily Sahakian. Graduate respondents: Michel Soares do Carmo, Francisco Zamparini, and Gabby Weatherby.

Dr. Andries Coetzee (University of Michigan) will be the second speaker in this year’s talk series, Language Variability in Latin America, funded by the Willson Center. He will be giving a research talk and lead a more informal, interdisciplinary discussion.  Information and abstracts for both are below.

Research talk: Language, Place and Identity in Post-Colonial Societies: Three Case Studies from Afrikaans, Gilbert Hall RM 118, 1:15-2:10pm