Congratulations to Dr. Susan Quinlan, Portuguese professor in the Department of Romance Languages, who received the 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award at the Kentucky Foreign Languages Conference!

Please join us in recognizing our students graduating with M.A. and Ph.D. degrees and announce awards won by all of our graduate students during the 2014-15 academic year. A reception will follow the ceremony.

Two Romance Languages graduate students will present their research on:

Leah Lemberg, "Native and non-Native instructors discourse patterns and feedback in upper-level spanish classes."

Sophie Vainer, "The Effects of Digital Storytelling on Students' Creativity, Motivation, and Target Language Use with Audio and Visual Media."  

The Department of Romance Languages students and faculty would like to thank Dr. Amélia Hutchinson for her many years of service the University of Georgia. We wish you the very best in your retirement!

Two Romance Languages graduate students will present papers in the Romance Languages Colloquium: Julia Hernández on "Plinean Amerindians: Textuo-Visual Feedback Loops in the First European Accounts of the Americas" and Ximena González-Parada will discuss "Contesting National Narratives: Chocó and the Reimagining of Black Communities in Colombia."

Textual Machines is an international symposium exploring literary objects that produce texts through the material interaction with mechanical devices or procedures. We define “textual machines” as a perspective on literature and book objects where text is “a mechanical device for the production and consumption of verbal signs” (Espen J. Aarseth).

Dr. Fuad Elhage, French and Spanish instructor in the Department of Romance Languages, is participating in the Dancing with the Athens Stars event in order to raise funds for Project Safe, an organization dedicated to helping women and children who have suffered domestic abuse. Click here to access the article in the Athens Banner-Herald.

We are delighted to announce that Professor Robert Moser has been awarded a 2015 OIE (Office of International Education) Study Abroad Award in recognition of his outstanding efforts in establishing and successfully directing the Portuguese Flagship Program.

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Diana Cullell Teixedor will be visiting us from the University of Liverpool (UK) on Wednesday, March 4, when she will present a talk in our colloquia series on "(Re)locating Prestige: Poetry Readings, Poetry Slams, and Poetry Jam Sessions in Contemporary Spain" in Gilbert 115 from 12:15-1:15PM. We hope you will be able to attend. We would also like to thank Dr. Luis Correa-Díaz for arranging her visit. Click here to see the flyer.