Tags: Romance Languages

Kate advises (2nd year and beyond) French, Romance Languages (including Italian and Portuguese tracks), and some Spanish majors (last name H-Z). She is the main contact for Italian and Portuguese minor questions. Kate Daley-Bailey received her A.B. (2001) and M.A. (2004) degrees in Religion from the University of Georgia. She taught Religion courses at the collegiate level for ten years at Georgia State University, Georgia Perimeter College,…
Jan Pendergrass specializes in Renaissance humanism, humanist pedagogy, epistolography and paleography. He received a master’s degree in Philosophy from the University of Munich in 1981 and a doctorate from the University François-Rabelais (Tours, France) in 1987. He has published editions and commentaries of the neo-Latin correspondence of Antoine Arlier (Droz, 1990) and Jean de Pins (Droz, 2007) and is co-author of Images et lieux de mémoire d…
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…
(Ph.D. University of Iowa, 2010) Research (my ORCID) I was promoted to the rank of Professor effective 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…
I am a scholar of early modern Spanish literature and culture. My research examines the literary and religious writings of the Spanish Empire, and how these forms continue to inform global culture and collective experience today. My publications include Heretical Mixtures: Feminine and Poetic Opposition to Matter-Spirit Dualism in Spain, 1531–1631, and a critical edition of Francisco de Osuna’s Norte de los estados, a Franciscan conduct…