Tags: Graduate Teaching Assistant

My name is Álvaro Ley Garrido and I'm a PhD candidate in Hispanic Studies at UGA. I also serve as a Teaching Assistant in the Spanish Program (courses regularly taught are SPAN2001 & SPAN2550). My current fields are Spanish Golden Age culture, Latinx Studies, and Translation Studies, and I also worked in Nineteenth century Peninsular literature for most of my years during my B.A.
Carine Sigaud is a PhD student in Francophone Studies at the University of Georgia. Her research focuses on taking a linguistic approach to study literary texts. She is especially interested in the way 18th century French novelists have represented different categories of underrepresented peoples' speech as well as the sociological and philosophical implications of these stylistic choices. She wrote her masters theses on 19th century post…
Hola! My name is Eliot Westdorp and I am a PhD candidate in the Hispanic Linguistics program as well as a Spanish TA 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.
Caitlin E. Samples is a PhD candidate in Hispanic linguistics. Broadly, she is interested in morphosyntax and semantics, specifically, as they pertain to second and heritage language acquisition, linguistic theory, and language variation. Other interests include applied linguistics, L2 pedagogy, and language change. Her dissertation analyzes how learners of English and Spanish acquire possessive structures at the interfaces among…
Michelle Fulton is a doctoral candidate in Romance languages with an emphasis on 19th century French Literature. Previously, she studied Vocal Performance at the University of Kentucky with a minor in French, and then continued on into the Master's program at the University of Kentucky pursuing a degree in French and Francophone Studies. She has also participated in the Lexington-Deauville Sister City Exchange Program, in which she taught…