Congratulations to Leda Lozier for successfully defending her doctoral dissertation on "Representaciones de género y violencia en la producción cultural por mujeres en el triángulo Norte de Centro América: Guatemala, Honduras y El Salvador, 1990-2017" and for receiving the American Council of Learned Societies Emerging Voices Fellowship in residence at Emory University in Atlanta.

Recent Romance Languages graduate Dr. Evelyn Autry has been named the winner of the UGA Graduate School's 2021 Excellence in Research Award for the Arts and Humanities.

Romance Languages faculty member Dr. Rachel Gabara has received the Albert Christ-Janer Creative Research Award, given to recognize an outstanding body of nationally and internationally recognized scholarly or creative activities in the arts and humanities.

Department of Romance Languages doctoral student Jorge García-Granados has been awarded a prestigious Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship. These extremely competitive fellowships support a year of research and writing to help advanced graduate students in the humanities and social sciences in the last year of PhD dissertation writing. 

Romance Languages professor Dr. Dana Bultman is one of fourteen University of Georgia faculty members selected for the 2021 UGA Libraries Special Collections Fellows Program. Fellows will collaborate with archivists this May to design learning opportunities for students using historical materials.

Dr. Emily Sahakian, joint faculty in Theatre Studies and Romance Languages, has been named a recipient of the Richard B. Russell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, which recognizes outstanding instruction by faculty members early in their academic careers.

The Department of Romance Languages, the Institute for African American Studies, and The Franklin College Visiting Scholar Program invites you to the Zoom lecture by 

Brent Hayes Edwards: “Black Radicalism and the Archive: Inventories of Fire” 

Wednesday, March 3, 5:30 - 6:30 p.m. (on Zoom) 

* This competition is not affiliated directly with the Department of Romance Languages at the University of Georgia

Congratulations to Hispanic Linguistics PhD student Camila Lívio Emidio on being awarded the prestigious James L. Carmon scholarship for her usage of digital resources in her doctoral dissertation on "Digital Technology meets Romance Linguistics: The Use of Computer-Based Methods for the Study of Language." As she summarizes, "in my research I construct corpora (e.g.