Tags: French

Evan is in his first year of the M.A French program, after receiving his B.A in French Studies from UGA in May '25. Evan currently studies Italian & German as well as French, and hopes to encourage the same passion for languages and language acquisition in others. In his free time, Evan enjoys watching movies, being in the outdoors, inshore fishing, birdwatching, and playing the bass guitar. He is a member of Phi Delta Phi and Phi Beta Kappa…

I am a medieval French specialist by training who focuses on Old French poetry and prose of the 12th and 13th centuries, or what might be considered the beginning of French as a literary language during a period where Latin remained the language of education and the church. I am also interested in the history of the book and the ways that the material conditions of textual transmission have affected reading practices over time, generating…

Maureen DeNino specializes in nineteenth-century French literature and culture. Her research explores the relationship between French culture, literature, and the press, with a focus on daily newspapers, illustrated weeklies, and comparative colonialisms across Europe. She has published articles on Tahiti and its place in the French cultural imagination, and on trans-European movement of images of the pétroleuse, the storied women arsonists…

My name is Alina Linchevska, and I am from Kyiv, Ukraine. I graduated from Kyiv National Linguistic University with a B.A. in Humanities, specializing in French language, literature, and translation. I studied 19th and 20th-century French literature and explored the psychology in Sidonie-Gabriel Colette’s novels, especially "Claudine’s House." I also examined French colloquial language and its unique features. For my senior thesis, I researched…

Every year the Center for Teaching and Learning recognizes the significant contributions graduate students make to the instructional mission of the University of Georgia through Teaching Awards sponsored by the Office of the Vice President for Instruction. This year, graduate students Erin Bolívar (PhD candidate in Hispanic Studies & Italian), María González-Ferrer (PhD candidate in Hispanic Linguistics), Álvaro Ley Garrido (PhD student in…

Poorvaja earned one of the highest scores on the National French Week quiz. This trivia event, open to students and faculty, was a part of a week-long national celebration of French and the Francophone world. 

Rachel Floyd holds a PhD in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching from the University of Arizona and an MA in French & Francophone Studies from the University of Tennessee. She specializes in the implementation of multiliteracies and critical pedagogies, and her research interests are mainly related to the implementation of these pedagogies in the language classroom. She has also published articles related to the development of socio-…