Tags: Spanish


Emily Rose Kraus

I am happy to announce that I finished my PhD in French and Italian as well as an MA in German in 2024. I was fortunate enough to be able to complete both degrees simultaneously in 4 years. Starting fall 2024, I am working as a full-time instructor in the Romance Languages Department while pursuing an MA in Spanish. 


María González-Ferrer

Born in Madrid, Spain, María is a Ph.D. candidate in the Hispanic Linguistics program. Recently honored with the Sigma Delta Pi Award for international research, she will spend the Fall 2024 semester conducting research in Spain and Mexico. In addition, she will be teaching two sections of the SPAN 2001E online course. Her primary research interests are Second Language Acquisition and Applied Linguistics. For her dissertation, María is examining…


J. Graham Johnson

My name is Graham Johnson and I'm currently a third-year PhD Student in Hispanic Linguistics at UGA. I also serve as an Instructor of Record in the Spanish program (SPAN 1001/1110/2001). My current research interests include: pragmatics and discourse analysis, discourse markers, pragmatic variation, and LGBTQIA+ discourse and identity, as well as sociolinguistics, language attitudes, historical linguistics, and phonetics/phonology. 


Marcela Garza


Racheal Fulford

I specialize in Latinx Studies with a focus in contemporary Afro-Latina writers and content creators. My research highlights the use of religion and spirituality as a tool for decolonial action and identity through prose, music, and digital mediums.  While studying at the University of Georgia, I have also had the opportunity to teach beginning and intermediate level Spanish courses (SPAN 1001, 1002, 1110, 2001, 2002), Introduction to…


Chase Fulford

I recently graduated from UGA with my Ph.D. in Hispanic Studies with a concentration in contemporary Spanish novel and culture. My dissertation focused on the novelistic series by Benjamín Prado titled "Los casos de Juan Urbano." I analyzed the first five novels in his series using the theoretical framework of Linda Hutcheon's work on historiographic metafiction. Before coming to UGA, I earned my Master of Arts in Spanish (M.A.) and Master of…


Daniel Ferreira da Silva

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…


Rosa Chávez Otero


Alberto Villate-Isaza

Alberto Villate Isaza specializes in Latin American colonial literature, culture and historiography, particularly in the New Kingdom of Granada. Other interest and areas of research include social and political theory of the baroque, discourses of Latin American national identity, and nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Latin American literature, especially modernismo. He is the author of Exemplary Violence: Rewriting History in…


Elena V. Sarmiento

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