The Graduate Romanic Association of the Department of Romance Languages at the University of Pennsylvania is a student-run organization that represents graduate students in French, Italian, and Spanish. The Graduate Romanic Association (GRA) plans monthly roundtable talks on students' recent research and on topics of common professional and academic interest, publishes the Working Papers in Romance Languages and Literatures, and organizes the annual Graduate Student Colloquium in Romance Languages. Last year's Colloquium was entitled "Traversing Geographies: New Poetics of Space."

GRA Officers and Committees for 2008-2009:

President:
François Massonnat

Vice Presidents: 
Larissa Brewer and Chris Schaefer (Hispanic Studies); Christina Elefteriades and Melissa Motley (French)

Secretary:
Samuel Martin

Treasurer:
Andrea Cote

Roundtable Organizer:
Anna Cox (Hispanic Studies); Anne Bornschein (French)

Social Chair:
Lucy Swanson

Student-Faculty Liaison:
Anne Bornschein (French Studies); Michele Rossi (Italian Studies); Sandra Casanova-Vizcaíno and Selma Feliciano-Arroyo (Hispanic Studies)