Tags: Graduate Teaching Assistant

My name is Flor Adams and I am a PhD student here at UGA in Hispanic Linguistics and am also completing the graduate certificates in Women's Studies and Interdisciplinary Qualitative Studies. Currently, I teach SPAN 1001/1002/1110. My research interests include: Post-structuralism/Post-humanism and Queer theory, Discourse Analysis, Raciolinguistics, sociopragmatics.   

I'm a second-year Ph.D. student in Romance Language Linguistics and instructor of record for SPAN 2001.  Between completing my M.A. and starting my Ph.D. here at UGA, I was a lecturer for 5 years at SUNY Potsdam in Northern New York teaching Spanish, French, and English for non-native speakers. I also volunteered with AFS as a liaison and orientation coordinator for high school students from abroad studying in the U.S. Study abroad holds…

My name is Álvaro Ley Garrido and I'm a PhD candidate in Hispanic Studies at UGA. I also serve as a Teaching Assistant in the Spanish Program (courses regularly taught are SPAN2001 & SPAN2550). My current fields are Spanish Golden Age culture, Latinx Studies, and Translation Studies, and I also worked in Nineteenth century Peninsular literature for most of my years during my B.A.

Carine Sigaud is a PhD student in Francophone Studies at the University of Georgia. Her research focuses on taking a linguistic approach to study literary texts. She is especially interested in the way authors have represented different categories of underrepresented peoples' speech as well as the sociological and philosophical implications of these stylistic choices. She wrote her masters theses on 19th century post realism, with a particular…

My name is Anaïs Jandot (they/them). I was born in Lyon, France. I am a 28-year old non-binary scholar in arts and humanities. I moved to the US in July 2019 and met my husband Colin a few months later. I am the proud owner of two cats and three greyhounds who make my home the happiest place on earth. I studied at the University of Jean Moulin Lyon III for 5 years and had the pleasure to work with Dr. Lawrence Gasquet on my master’s thesis. At…

Hola! My name is Eliot Westdorp and I am a PhD candidate in the Hispanic Linguistics program as well as a Spanish TA at the University of Georgia. My areas of study include sociolinguistics (language variation and change, dialectology, bilingualism, language contact, language attitudes), L2 pronunciation acquisition, and applied linguistics with my focus on languages of the Iberian Peninsula.

Caitlin E. Samples is a PhD candidate in Hispanic linguistics. Broadly, she is interested in morphosyntax and semantics, specifically, as they pertain to second and heritage language acquisition, linguistic theory, and language variation. Other interests include applied linguistics, L2 pedagogy, and language change. Her dissertation analyzes how learners of English and Spanish acquire possessive structures at the interfaces among…