Tags: Romance Languages


Emily Rose Kraus

I am happy to announce that I finished my PhD in French and Italian as well as an MA in German in 2024. I was fortunate enough to be able to complete both degrees simultaneously in 4 years. Starting fall 2024, I am working as a full-time instructor in the Romance Languages Department while pursuing an MA in Spanish. 


María González-Ferrer

Born in Madrid, Spain, María is a Ph.D. candidate in the Hispanic Linguistics program. Recently honored with the Sigma Delta Pi Award for international research, she will spend the Fall 2024 semester conducting research in Spain and Mexico. In addition, she will be teaching two sections of the SPAN 2001E online course. Her primary research interests are Second Language Acquisition and Applied Linguistics. For her dissertation, María is examining…


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.


Racheal Fulford

I specialize in Latinx Studies with a focus in contemporary Afro-Latina writers and content creators. My research highlights the use of religion and spirituality as a tool for decolonial action and identity through prose, music, and digital mediums.  While studying at the University of Georgia, I have also had the opportunity to teach beginning and intermediate level Spanish courses (SPAN 1001, 1002, 1110, 2001, 2002), Introduction to…


Kate Daley-Bailey

Kate advises (2nd year and beyond) 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.


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) Effective August 2024, I have been promoted to the rank of Professor.  I specialize in syntax, which 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. …


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.  In courses with students we examine canonical Spanish texts by siglo de oro, or 'Golden Age…
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