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Nikki Eckstine


Nicole Casnettie


Daniel Noh


Eliot Westdorp

Hola! My name is Eliot Westdorp and I am a PhD student in the Hispanic Linguistics program as well as a Spanish TA here 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.


Nora Benedict

I am a book historian and digital humanist focusing on Latin American print culture. More specifically, my research centers on twentieth-century Latin American literature, descriptive bibliography, book history, and questions of access and maintenance surrounding both digital and print cultures.  My first monograph, Borges and the Literary Marketplace (Yale University Press, 2021), considers the marked presence of…


Sherry Kate Nourizadeh

Sherry Kate Nourizadeh is a PhD Candidate in Hispanic Studies, specializing in contemporary Latin American Literature and Human Rights. Her research examines Human Rights in Latin America, particularly focusing on political oppression, gender and sexuality, indigenous rights, and environmental ethics through contemporary testimonial poetry. While at UGA, she also completed a Graduate Certificate in Latin American and Caribbean Studies…


Laura Isabel dos Santos Vieira

Olá! I was born in Roraima, Brazil, and I am a fifth year PhD candidate in Romance Languages, studying the construction and representation of Latin American identities in contemporary comic books and graphic novels. During my Master's at Universidade Federal Flumimense (Niteói - RJ), I researched contemporary Brazilian literature and graphic novel adaptations, and the representation of indigenous identities in the Amazon. Back in Brazil, I was a…


Keenan Hunt

Although Spanish is my focus and was my "first love" in terms of foreign languages, I also greatly enjoyed taking Italian courses as an undergrad, and teaching myself Catalan on my own time. I love talking about language and sharing unique facets of culture related to those languages such as music or tongue twisters ("Els Sezte Jutges" fits both of those!), and I'm always interested to learn a new fact about any…


Ningxian Li

I am a PHD candidate in Hispanic linguistics. The topic of my dissertation is about predicate fronting in Spanish and Chinese. My areas of interest include left periphery structure in Chinese and Spanish, the syntax and pragmatics of predicate fronting, precedural meaning, and argument structure in Chinese. In my spare time, I like trying new recipes. I love yarns and fabric. I enjoy making blankets and sweaters. I served as a Chinese instructor…


Angela Blash

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