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  • Congratulations to Mario JuĆ”rez SuĆ”rez on completing his first Qualifying Paper (QP1). His paper, entitled ā€œVoy a estudiar espaƱol, en plan cĆ³mo se hablaā€: AnĆ”lisis de en plan en PRESEEAā€, leverages corpus-based methods to analyze the distribution and meaning of the discourse structure en plan. The committee, which includes Dr. Sarah Blackwell and Dr. Timothy Gupton, was impressed with his use of naturalistic data and has encouraged him to expand on this work. Ā”Enhorabuena, Mario!
  • Dr. Andrew Bray has accepted the position of Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Rochester. Congratulations, Andrew!
  • Camila LĆ­vio successfully defended her dissertation on May 17, 2023. Her dissertation, entitled ā€œDigital Approaches to Intensification in Portuguese & Spanishā€, explores the use and perception of words like muy, muito, bem, and super (i.e. intensifiers) in data extracted from Amazon reviews. Camila has now started her new position as Scholarly Communications Librarian at the University of Georgia Library. ParabĆ©ns, Camila!
  • ROML Grad and all around brilliant fellow, Dr. Lamar Graham, was recently promoted to Associate Professor (with tenure) in the Department of Romance Studies at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. Ā”Enhorabuena, Lamar!

If youā€™re interested in working with me, please take a look at my current (and updated!) Advisee Guide. This document is intended to provide some useful guidance in the process of completing your graduate requirements. Itā€™s also a bit out of date so please contact me if you have any questions. For more information about UGA Graduate School deadlines, consult the Grad School Calendar. Students should also familizarize themselves with the Romance Languages Graduate Handbook and the Linguistics Graduate Handbook.

Note: Before you consider asking me to work with you as a major professor, please keep a few things in mind. First, you need to have taken at least one course with me in order for me to consider serving as your major professor. Second, unless you are working on something related to my current research, I will not be able to serve as your major professor.

Current Advisees Former Advisees

Current Advisees

  • Allonah Ezro-Christy (PhD, Romance Languages), Areas of Research: Comparative Romance Linguistics, Historical Change, grammaticalization
  • Nathaniel (Nate) Fackler (PhD. Linguistics), Areas of Research: Sociolinguistics, language acquisition
  • Sarah Hubbel (PhD, Romance Languages), Areas of Research: Sociolinguistics, Spanish/Quechua Contact
  • Kasi Ives (PhD, Romance Languages), Areas of Research: Language use in digital media, computational methods
  • Mario JuĆ”rez SĆ”nchez (PhD, Romance Languages), Areas of Research: Language variation, Spanish in digital media
  • Rachel Kim (PhD, Linguistics), Areas of Research: Sociolinguistics, perception of US dialects by L2 speakers of English
  • Bailey Pieplow (MA, Linguistics), Areas of Research: Sociolinguistics, language variation in Georgia
  • Eliot Westdorp (PhD, Romance Languages), Areas of Research: Sociolinguistics, language variation in Peninsular Spanish, Galician/Spanish contact

Former Advisees

To find a copy of a thesis or dissertation, go to the UGA repository and search by the authorā€™s name.