The Department of Romance Languages would like to congratulate Peter Gachanja on defended succesfully his dissertation on “Ousmane Sembene: The Aestheticization of Memory and History.”

Dr. Richard Gordon will discuss the process of writing and publishing academic articles and books.

Prominent Latin@ scholar and writer Alberto Sandoval-Sanchez will discuss queerness and the experience of AIDS in the context of Latin@ identity.

Prominent Latin@ scholar Alberto Sandoval-Sanchez will discuss the construction and performance of Latin@ identity and cultural politics through theater.

Philip Limerick, MA student in Spanish Linguistics, will present his paper "Spanish Subject Expression in Roswell, Georgia: dialect formation in an emerging bilingual community"

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Emily Warden, PhD student in Romance Languages at UGA, will present her paper "Determining determiners in Spanish"

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Join us in congratulating Cris Lira, a PhD student concentrating on Brazilian literature, for her succesful application for a Graduate School Dean's Award to help fund her research on the convergence of women's writing with militant political activity during dictatorships in Latin America. 

La ponencia del profesor Argüelles Acosta forma parte de su trabajo de investigación más reciente, Cuba (1959–

2008). Contextos de la literatura: entidades paraliteraria donde se propone una caracterización del desempeño

histórico de algunas de las zonas de contacto de la literatura con su entorno socio–histórico–cultural. Para ello se

acerca a diferentes concreciones de este entorno que han conseguido una identidad ostensible y una autonomía

relativa, estableciendo vínculos de variada naturaleza con las instancias que determinan directamente tal