Milonga Tropical Spring 2025

Athens Tangueros presents Milonga Tropical - Tango intertwined with Latin Rhythm dancing for a memorable evening of dancing.

Live Dance performances by UGA Salsa Club, DanceFX RevolutionSalsa, and Athens Tangueros.

-- Admission: FREE --

Downtown Athens April 23, 2025 from 6:45p – 10:30p at Rialto Club

Romance Languages Colloquium

The Romance Languages Colloquium is a series of free, open to the public events organized by graduate students of the Department. The spirit of the event is to share our department’s work with the community, making us more aware of what our colleagues do and giving us the opportunity of talking to about our production.

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Samantha Gillen Awarded Sandy Beaver Excellence in Teaching

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Dr. Samantha Gillen, Lecturer of Italian, is a recipient of a 2025 Sandy Beaver Excellence in Teaching Award. The Sandy Beaver awards annually honor outstanding faculty in the Franklin College who have shown a sustained commitment to high-quality instruction.  Since joining the Romance Languages faculty in 2022, Samantha has designed and taught the new, online asynchronous course ITAL 2500e, participated in the pilot Experiential Learning Connect Abroad programs (Italy 2024 and Greece 2025), and taught Italian language at the UGA Cortona campus in Summer 2024.

Romance Languages Colloquium

The Romance Languages Colloquium is a series of free, open to the public events organized by graduate students of the Department. The spirit of the event is to share our department’s work with the community, making us more aware of what our colleagues do and giving us the opportunity of talking to about our production.

Hunting Shadows: Resisting Displacement Trauma Leveraging Archives

Gallery Talk with Dr. Paola De Santo

Paola De Santo, associate professor of Italian at the University of Georgia, will give a gallery talk in the exhibition “Beyond the Medici: The Haukohl Family Collection.” Her talk will expand on the exhibition through the lens of her expertise in gender and the Italian baroque. Dr. De Santo’s current research focuses on the literature and culture of early modern Italy, particularly women’s writing and performance.

Spanish Major Alexandra Catherine Wells Selected for National Humanities Leadership Council

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Story by Dr. Sharina Maíllo-Pozo

Alexandra is a senior Foundation Fellow and Stamps Scholar at the University of Georgia, studying Cellular Biology and Spanish. She conducted undergraduate research with the Kipreos Lab and the team’s work was recently published in Nature Communications. Alexandra was nominated by Romance Languages Faculty to be a student representative on the National Humanities Leadership Council (NHLC) because of her exploration of the importance of humanistic perspectives in solving current global issues. Here's an excerpt from our interview: