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I have a PhD and a Master's degree in Romance Languages from the University of Georgia (UGA). I first arrived at UGA as a Fulbright Portuguese Teaching Assistant in 2015-2016. I have taught different levels of Portuguese since then, from elementary proficiency to full professional working proficiency, following the ACTFL ILR scale. In 2019, I was also invited to teach an accelerated elementary level of Spanish and have been teaching both…
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.
Carmen Chaves Tesser received her M.A. in Foreign Languages (1969) and Ph.D. in European Cultural History: The Iberian Peninsula (1976) from Mississippi State University.  She did post-doctoral studies in Eighteenth Century Spanish Literature at the University of Georgia (1978) and in Portuguese and Brazilian Literature at Vanderbilt University (1980).  She was research fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, 1992-93. During…
(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…
Dr. Richard A. Gordon (Ph.D. Brown University, 2002) is Professor of Brazilian and Spanish-American Literature and Culture at the University of Georgia, Principal Investigator of UGA's Department of Education Title VI NRC and FLAS grants, and Co-Director of UGA's Department of Defense Portuguese Flagship Program. His research focuses largely on historical film and social identity, specifically, the capacity for cinema to influence how…

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