Tags: Spanish

One of my main commitments is to implement new and effective methods of teaching, such as the use of audiovisuals and the implementation of new technologies that empower and help students invest in a deeper way with their learning. Practices and educational experiences in past times have led us to enrich the philosophical concept of education. Search, understanding, and reflection have always been and continue to be the main drivers for…

My research interests lie in phonetics and phonology.  More specifically, my research focuses on laboratory phonology, phonological representations, and sociophonetic variability.  Disentangling surface forms (the sounds we produce) from abstract forms (how they are represented in the brain) has always been a primary goal for phonological theories, but finding appropriate methods to test these questions is challenging.  I use a…

My name is Ally Bigham and I am from Charlotte, North Carolina. I recently graduated from Wofford College located in Spartanburg, SC where I received my B.A. in Spanish with a minor in Business and was also a member of the inaugural softball team. My undergraduate research investigated Ethnicity, Race, and Nationality in the Spanish Civil War through Newspapers. I focused mainly on a Spanish Basque newspaper titled Euzkadi. I am in my first…

Daniela Hernández is in her first year of her Master's program at the University of Georgia. She earned her bachelor's in World Languages and Culture with a focus in Spanish for the Professions from Georgia College & State University in 2023. Prior to enrolling at UGA, she was working with individuals aged 8 - 55  in the role of a Spanish tutor. Currently, she is a mentee for Spanish 1110 and is excited about honing her teaching skills…

J. Tiegs is currently a lecturer of Spanish in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences. She learned Spanish from a young age, prompting her interest in language and her later travels to Spanish-speaking countries. She has spent long periods of time working and/or doing research in Peru and Chile, as well as shorter stays in Costa Rica, Ecuador and Spain. Her training is as a laboratory phonologist working with Romance Languages. She studies…

Caroline recently graduated with an M.A. from the Department of Linguistics at UGA. Caroline is originally from Raleigh, NC, and attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. There she studied Linguistics, Romance studies, and Spanish Translation & Interpreting. In 2021 she participated in the Global Studies and Spanish summer program at the University of Deusto in Bilbao, Spain.  Her areas of interest are Hispanic…

Brandon Ponce Carmona holds a B.A. in Spanish & Portuguese from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. He is currently a Master’s student at the University of Georgia, with a focus on Brazilian Popular Culture, musical analysis and Portuguese language acquisition. His research interests include the sociopolitical and cultural effects of Brazilian Funk (Funk Carioca) in Brazil, the modern expansion of the genre and lyrical analysis of Funk…