Tags: Romance Languages


María González-Ferrer

Born in Madrid (Spain), María is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Hispanic Linguistics program. She is a recipient of the Graduate School Research Assistantship, and during the academic course of 23-24, she will do research and focus on her dissertation.  Her main areas of interest are Second Language Acquisition and Applied Linguistics. For her dissertation, María investigates the acquisition of Spanish pronoun doubling structures by learners…


Jane Malicki

My current research interests center around the field of Second Language Acquisition, specifically the acquisition of French by speakers of other Romance languages, the development of oral competency in French, and Portuguese as a third language.


Kate Daley-Bailey

Kate advises (60 credit hour +)  French, Romance Language, and some Spanish majors (last name H-Z). She is also the main contact for Italian and Portuguese minor questions. If you are a major or minor listed above and have a question, please email Kate at rladv@uga.edu.


Holly Smith

I have been in the department since August of 2013.  I started as the receptionist, then moved up to administrative staff.  I am now the Assistant to the Graduate Coordinator and assist prospective and current Graduate Students and Graduate Teaching Assistants, starting with the application process all the way through defending their dissertations.  I wear many other hats in the department, but my main role, and the one I am most…


Thomas E. Peterson

Professor Peterson earned his M.A. in Italian at the University of California, Berkeley, and his Ph.D. in Italian Studies at Brown University.  Before coming to UGA in 1990 he taught as visiting assistant professor at Wellesley College, Brown University and Middlebury College.  He was promoted to the rank of Professor in 1999. Professor Peterson’s research focuses on the lyric and epic poetry of the Italian tradition (Dante, Petrarch,…


Jan Pendergrass

Jan Pendergrass specializes in Renaissance humanism, humanist pedagogy, epistolography and paleography. He received a master’s degree in Philosophy from the University of Munich in 1981 and a doctorate from the University François-Rabelais (Tours, France) in 1987. He has published editions and commentaries of the neo-Latin correspondence of Antoine Arlier (Droz, 1990) and Jean de Pins (Droz, 2007) and is co-author of Images et lieux de mémoire d…


Chad Howe

My primary area of research is language variation and change, focusing on structural phenomena in the Romance Languages. More generally, I investigate the forces that shape language use and the subsequent effect that these forces have on how language evolves. The most recent extension of this research involves analyzed data from social media for evidence of language change. I am also involved in work related to Spanish/Quechua contact. For a…


Timothy Gupton

(Ph.D. University of Iowa, 2010) Research (my ORCID) I am associate professor of Hispanic linguistics specializing in syntax. This means that I study sentence structure and word order. In my research, I seek to discover insight on how language structure is represented within the human mind—in monolinguals as well as bilinguals/multi-linguals. I do this by focusing on a variety of constructions in language.  My current research…


Dana Bultman

I am a scholar of premodern Spanish literature and culture. My research answers the question: how did religious culture shape literary aesthetics through the rise and decline of the Spanish Empire? Particularly I study moral theology in combination with poetry, novels, and treatises to interpret methods for creating social roles and identities.  Recent publications include the critical edition Francisco de Osuna’s Norte de los estados…
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