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Diana Trindade Drumond

I am a PhD student at the University of Georgia. My research focuses on exploring Brazilian poetry through the lenses of women’s studies and decolonial thinking theories. I hold a Bachelor’s degree in Languages and Literature, specializing in Portuguese and English, and a Master’s degree in Languages and Literature with a focus on Literary Theory and Cultural Criticism, both from the Federal University of São João del-Rei (UFSJ). Throughout my…

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Portuguese Classes Receive Renowned Brazilian Musicians

Portuguese students in the Department of Romance Languages had the privilege of receiving Brazilian percussionist Bill Lucas and Brazilian singer Maria Kamila, lead singer of Perrengue’s band, last week to learn about Brazilian rhythms. Students were invited to join in by singing and reproducing the rhythms they learned, clapping their hands, and moving their bodies. One of the rhythms they explored was coco de roda. Coco is the Portuguese…
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Romance Languages Alumni Invited for Portuguese Flagship Professional Development Event

The Portuguese Flagship Program (PFP) proudly hosted a Professional Development event recently that brought together current PFP students and nearly 30 alumni from cohorts dating back to our very first overseas capstone group in 2013. Among the panelists, we had Romance Languages Majors: Mateo Villa '14, Rachel Osnos '14, Taylay Obeng-Akrofi' 15, Natalia Sanchez '16, Alejandro Espinosa '17, Jamie Sauerbier '19, and Baleigh Preston '21. …
Portuguese, Portuguese Courses


Portuguese Language Flagship Domestic Grant Renewed

The Portuguese Flagship Program is thrilled to announce that our Language Flagship Domestic Grant has been renewed for an additional four years. Since 2011, our mission has been to provide students from all majors with funded opportunities to become global professionals by achieving professional proficiency in Portuguese and becoming area experts in Brazil. We eagerly anticipate another four years of exciting cultural and professional…
Portuguese, Portuguese Courses

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New Romance Linguistics faculty co-publication with UGA alumnus

The article "Processing dissociations between raising and control in Brazilian Portuguese" recently appeared in the First View portion of the Journal of Linguistics. This article was co-published by UGA Department of Linguistics alumnus Dr. Douglas Merchant (PhD, 2019) and Dr. Timothy Gupton. This project started before the Covid-19 pandemic, and is the first manuscript resulting from this collaboration. Congratulations to them! 
Portuguese, Romance Linguistics, Linguistics


Jessica Tiegs

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…

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Recent Portuguese PhD student publication

The article entitled "A parte dos Críticos de 2666, de Roberto Bolaño, como análise da globalização" [The Part About the Critics, in Roberto Bolaño's 2666, as an analysis of Globalization], authored by Portuguese PhD student, Fábio Mariano, appeared in the most recent volume of the journal Revista da Associação Brasileira de Hispanistas (abehache). Congratulations to Fábio Mariano! 
Literature, Spanish, Portuguese, Romance Languages


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…

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Fulbright Assistant Brings Northwestern Brazilian Culture to UGA Students

Welcome to Victória Lane Silva! This is her first semester teaching Portuguese to UGA students as a Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant (FTLA) in the Department of Romance Languages. She shares her reflections on the importance of language learning and culture: My name is Victória Lane Silva, and I am from Salvador, Bahia — the first capital of Brazil and a study abroad destination for current UGA students who are learning Portuguese.…
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