Tags: Spanish


Gary K. Baker


Alicia Arribas

FOR ADVISING, please send an email with your questions and information (name and 81 number) to  spanish@uga.edu  or call 706-542-1075 to schedule an appointment. If you are in one of Dr. Arribas' classes or would like to contact her for a matter other than advising, use this e-mail arribas@uga.edu.


Elizabeth Wright

I am a scholar of the literature and culture of Spanish early modernity. My publications ponder the diverse writing practices with which people and communities grappled with expanded geographic and cultural horizons that came into view as a result of transatlantic navigation and empire building. I also serve as editor of the Bulletin of the Comediantes.  My publications include The Epic of Juan Latino: Dilemmas of Race and Religion in…


Diana L. Ranson

        Diana L. Ranson specializes in historical linguistics and language variation and change of the Romance languages. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Linguistics from Yale University (1977) and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Romance Linguistics from the University of Michigan (1981, 1986). Her 1989 book, Change and Compensation:  Parallel Weakening of /s/ in Italian, French and Spanish, compares the weakening…


Susan Canty Quinlan


Margaret Lubbers Quesada

Ph.D. in Linguistics, Michigan State University Prof. Quesada has investigated the second language (L2) acquisition of tense, aspect and mood, subject pronouns, and lexical datives in conversational and narrative discourse structure. She is particularly interested in finding common ground among diverse theories of second language acquisition. Currently she is focusing on two areas of research: to what extent narrative structure impacts…


Nicolás Lucero

Author of La vuelta incompleta. Saer y la novela. Buenos Aires, Santiago Arcos Editor, 2017. Specializes in 19th and 20th century Latin American literatures, Modernization and Modernisms, Travel Writing, Journalism, politics and literature.


Betina Kaplan

Dr. Betina Kaplan researches contemporary Latin American literature, visual culture, and film. She is the author of Género y violencia en la narrativa del cono sur (1954-2003), 2007.  Latin American Works of Memory Conference- April 28-30, 2022 Conference Program    


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 was promoted to the rank of Professor in August 2024. 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.  My current research…
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