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Left to right: Alvaro Ley Garrido, Talita Nassur, and Michel Soares do Carmo
Six Romance Languages Graduate Students Receive 2024 Outstanding Teaching Award

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…
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Portuguese, Linguistics, Spanish, French


Luana Santos

Luana I. A. Santos is a PhD student at the Department of Romance Languages at the University of Georgia. Luana also has an MA in Romance Languages from the University of Georgia and an MEd from the Federal University of Sergipe, in Brazil. Her research interests are popular culture and literature, adaptation and intermediality, performance and identity, memory and tradition. She loves art in general, music being her favorite one as she enjoys…


Fabio Mariano

I was born in São Paulo, Brazil, but have lived in Campinas from my first year of life until I came to UGA. I went to Unicamp, where I got my undergraduate major in Literature Studies, an MA in Literary Theory and History and started a Ph.D in Literary History and Theory right before I came here. During that time, I have also taught Portuguese Language Literature in Brazilian High School and have pursued a career in creative writing. My…


Marie Currie


Michel Soares do Carmo

PhD Student and Teaching Assistant of Portuguese/Spanish at University of Georgia, Michel Soares do Carmo holds a M.A. in Linguistics and a B.A. in Languages and Literatures with a concentration in Portuguese, both from Universidade Federal de Goiás (UFG). He has extensive experience in teaching through different levels (middle and high school; university; adult education) and ages (from 12 to 71). Right before starting his PhD Studies, he was a…


Priscilla Scarpaci

Priscilla Scarpaci is a PhD student in French at UGA. She holds a Master's degree in French from Georgia State University, where her research delved into the diverse experiences of French-speaking communities in the United States, particularly in Louisiana and Maine. This background informs her current interest in exploring the cultural exchange between different artistic mediums and social contexts within French history, specifically 17th…


Vanessa Revheim

Vanessa Revheim is a Ph.D. candidate in Hispanic Linguistics at the University of Georgia. Her research focuses on heritage language acquisition, particularly the maintenance of Brazilian Portuguese in immigrant communities in the United States. She is interested in cross-linguistic interference resulting from language contact and the role of language attitudes in shaping the experiences of heritage speakers. With nearly 20 years of experience…


Okikiola Olusanu


Omar Gil-Pérez


Talita Lara Carvalho Nassur

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