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Cris Lira Book Signing Photo
Cris Lira In The Black & Red

UGA assistant professor Cris Lira recently launched her latest book of poetry, A Casa Eterna. The Portuguese-language collection, published in Brazil in May by Venas Abiertas as part of the annual publications of the Brazilian collective Mulherio das Letras, is now making its American debut. The Red & Black covered the launch and Lira’s new publication.   Read the full story in The Red & Black.
Romance Languages, Portuguese

Felipe smiles at the camera
To Study a Language Is to Study People: A FLTA Journey's to UGA

This semester, Felipe Guedes M. Vieira joins the UGA community as a Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant (FLTA) in the Department of Romance Languages. As he begins teaching Portuguese, he brings with him years of experience in language education and research in Brazil. Below, Felipe shares more about his journey to UGA. I was always fascinated by languages and by the different ways people communicate and make sense of the world. Over…
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Amanda Menezes

Amanda holds a B.A. in English, a secondary B.A. in Portuguese, and a specialization in Inclusive Education. Her teaching experience spans diverse age groups and educational contexts, and her interest in Portuguese as a Foreign Language grew from her experience as both a language learner and educator. Originally from Manaus, in the Brazilian Amazon, Amanda is particularly interested in Indigenous identities, gender, ecofeminism, cultural…


Felipe Guedes Moreira Vieira

I am from Mato Grosso, Brazil, and I am currently a Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant (FLTA) of Portuguese in the Department of Romance Languages at the University of Georgia (UGA). I am also a master’s student in Psycholinguistics in the Graduate Program in Linguistics and Literature at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), where I hold a CAPES scholarship. I hold a Bachelor’s degree in Portuguese and English Language…


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Elliana Shillig Venâncio

Elliana is a first-year PhD student whose research focuses on feminist literature from the Lusophone world. She holds a BA in Portuguese and an MA in Portuguese Literature from Brigham Young University, where her graduate work centered on feminist authors from Portugal and Cape Verde. Her research has taken her to archives in Spain and Portugal, and she is broadly interested in feminist writing across Lusophone countries and the ways these…


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Mariana holds a blue painting.
Bridging Worlds Through Language: A Fulbright Teaching Assistant Shares Her Journey

Welcome to Mariana Ribeiro Rodrigues! 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 being a cultural ambassador:Coming from small town, I, like many of my friends, am a first-generation college student. For us, going to university represented a chance of studying the subjects we most enjoyed on a deeper…
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Laryssa Rodrigues


Fabio Passos

Fabio Passos is a second-year M.A. student in Spanish at the University of Georgia (UGA), with certificates in Latin American and Caribbean Studies (LACSI) and Entrepreneurship. He serves as a Teaching Assistant for PORT 2001: Intermediate Portuguese, SPAN 1001: Elementary Spanish I, and SPAN 1002: Elementary Spanish II. During Summer 2026, he worked as a Program Assistant for the UGA in Spain – Seville Study Abroad Program, supporting academic…
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