Tags: Spanish


Nikki Eckstine


Nicole Casnettie


Eliot Westdorp

Hola! My name is Eliot Westdorp and I am a PhD student in the Hispanic Linguistics program as well as a Spanish TA here at the University of Georgia. My areas of study include sociolinguistics (language variation and change, dialectology, bilingualism, language contact, language attitudes), L2 pronunciation acquisition, and applied linguistics with my focus on languages of the Iberian Peninsula.


Nora Benedict

I am a book historian and digital humanist who focuses on the development of the publishing industry in twentieth-century Latin America. A commonly overlooked fact of every book is the material evidence of its production and manufacture; this has been the central point of departure for much of my research. Instead of examining variants from manuscripts to printed text, my research relies on an analysis of the physical features of any given…


Laura Vieira

Olá! I was born in Roraima, Brazil, and I am a sixth year PhD candidate in Romance Languages, studying the construction and representation of Latin American identities in contemporary comic books and graphic novels. During my Master's at Universidade Federal Flumimense (Niteói - RJ), I researched contemporary Brazilian literature and graphic novel adaptations, and the representation of indigenous identities in the Amazon. I have over 10 years of…


Keenan Hunt

Although Spanish is my focus and was my "first love" in terms of foreign languages, I also greatly enjoyed taking Italian courses as an undergrad, and teaching myself Catalan on my own time. I love talking about language and sharing unique facets of culture related to those languages such as music or tongue twisters ("Els Sezte Jutges" fits both of those!), and I'm always interested to learn a new fact about any…


Ningxian Li

I am a PHD candidate in Hispanic linguistics. The topic of my dissertation is about predicate fronting in Spanish and Chinese. My areas of interest include left periphery structure in Chinese and Spanish, the syntax and pragmatics of predicate fronting, precedural meaning, and argument structure in Chinese. In my spare time, I like trying new recipes. I love yarns and fabric. I enjoy making blankets and sweaters. I served as a Chinese instructor…


Angela Blash


Rachel Denae Harris


Patricia Padilla Diaz

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