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Victoria Lane F Silva

Victória Lane Silva is a PhD student in the Department of Romance Languages - Portuguese, with a keen interest in Afro-Latin American literature. Originally from Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, she has a deep passion for her hometown. In 2022-2023, she gained valuable experience as a Fulbright grantee in the Foreign Language Teaching Assistant program, serving as a Portuguese Teaching Assistant at UGA. Victória completed her master’s degree in…


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…


Georges Agode

Left to right: Alvaro Ley Garrido, Talita Nassur, and Michel Soares do Carmo
Six Romance Languages Graduate Students Receive 2024 Outstanding Teaching Award

Every year the Center for Teaching and Learning recognizes the significant contributions graduate students make to the instructional mission of the University of Georgia through Teaching Awards sponsored by the Office of the Vice President for Instruction. This year, graduate students Erin Bolívar (PhD candidate in Hispanic Studies & Italian), María González-Ferrer (PhD candidate in Hispanic Linguistics), Álvaro Ley Garrido (PhD student in…
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Portuguese, Linguistics, Spanish, French


Luana Santos

Luana Santos is an M.A. student at the University of Georgia. Her research interests are Brazilian music and literature. Luana also has an M.A. in education from Universidade Federal de Sergipe and has been teaching English and Portuguese as additional languages for the last ten years, in diverse settings. She likes writing poetry, singing, and practicing the acoustic guitar.


Brandon Ponce Carmona

Brandon Ponce Carmona holds a B.A. in Spanish & Portuguese from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. He is currently a Master’s student at the University of Georgia, with a focus on Brazilian Popular Culture, musical analysis and Portuguese language acquisition. His research interests include the sociopolitical and cultural effects of Brazilian Funk (Funk Carioca) in Brazil, the modern expansion of the genre and lyrical analysis of Funk…


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…


Ian Turner

I am from Pine Mountain, Georgia, a rural farming community with lots of cows & veggies. I have always had a strong interest in Spanish linguistics, semiotics, and philosophy. I am interested in the structural underpinnings of language as well as the relationship between phonetics and natural language processing. While language is my passion, I have also spent the last three years working as a legal writer for an immigration law firm &…


Rachel Thomas


Jessica Morales

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