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  • Colloquium: The Politics of Colonization
  • Caffettino Fall 2023
  • Pause Café FA 23
  • Media and Cinema in French
  • Exploring Rome
  • Narratives of Disease
  • Colloquium: The Politics of Colonization
    Colloquium: The Politics of Colonization
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  • Caffettino Fall 2023
    Italian Conversation Table Fall 2023
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  • Pause Café FA 23
    French Conversation Table Fall 2023
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  • Media and Cinema in French
    Fall 2023: FR 387 Media and Cinema in French
    T, R 11 am -12:20 pm
  • Exploring Rome
    Fall 2023: ITAL 156 Exploring Rome
    T, R 9:30-10:50 am
  • Narratives of Disease
    Fall 2023: FR 543 Narratives of Disease
    R 3-4:20 pm
  • Masterpieces of Renaissance Literature
    Fall 2023: ITAL 420 Masterpieces of Renaissance Literature
    T,R 2 -3:20pm
  • Spring 2023 ITAL 310: Advanced Grammar
    Fall 2023: ITAL 210 Practical Review of Italian
    M, W 2-3:20PM
  • French Identities
    Fall 2023: FR 212 French Identities
    MW or TR 2-3:20 pm (two sections)
  • Exploring Paris
    Fall 2023: FR 156 Exploring Paris
    T, R 11 am -12:20 pm
  • Assistant Professor in Italian Studies

    We are hiring in Italian Studies!

    We are hiring faculty for a full-time, tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Italian Studies, with a start date of August 16, 2024 and a broad set of specializations!  They include but are not limited to: Minority Studies, Cultural Studies, Diaspora and Migration Studies, Gender Studies, Race and Ethnicity Studies, Mediterranean Studies, Global Early Modern Studies. Applicants with an...
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  • Incoming grads 2023-24

    Meet our incoming graduate students!

    This year's incoming graduate students again come to us from a variety of places to study French and Italian literatures, cultures, linguistics, and language pedagogy. From left to right and top to bottom on this picture, meet: Michele Prudence Djemwel Biscene (md58@illinois.edu), M.A. Student in French Studies (B.A....
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  • Dan's picture giving interview

    Professor Maroun interviewed on riots in France

    The recent riots in France have raised questions about French police’s "larger purpose" in the country, stated Assistant Professor Daniel Nabil Maroun on FRANCE 24, the French state-owned international news television network based in Paris. The riots broke out after the recent shooting of a 17-year-old, identified as Nahel M., by a police officer in the Paris suburb of Nanterre when he was...
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More Department News

  • Take our summer courses!
    Look up our French and Italian summer course offerings, if you would like to study our languages over the summer. Regular instruction in French and Italian resumes on August 16. Have a restful and productive summer!
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  • Congratulations to our Undergraduate Awardees!
    This year's K. A. Looney Awards for French Merit prize went to six outstanding majors and minors who have been excellent in their classes and earned a minimum GPA of 3.5 in a rigorous academic program in French.  Minors:...
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  • Professor Gaillard wins Humanities Research Prize
    Congratulations to Professor Julie Gaillard for winning Honorable Mention, one of this year's Humanities Research Institute's Prizes for Research across all fields of the Humanities on campus. Professor Gaillard's article is entitled: “‘Returning 'home’? Or Dwelling in the Pixel Age: On Invader’s...
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Highlighted Courses

  • Paris vor Triumphbogen
    FR 322

    Movements and Perspectives

    "Les Années noires (1940-44) and their aftermath" Les Années noires (1940-1944) and their aftermath in film, literature, memoirs and documents such as photography. The Vichy regime ; Everyday life in Paris during the Nazi Occupation ; Collaboration and Resistance ; the Holocaust...
    Course Description for FR 322
  • FR 336 French Cultural History 1789-1968
    FR 336

    French Cultural History, 1789-1968

    Survey of French cultural history from the French Revolution to 1968. Taught in French.  
    Course Description for FR 336
  • FR 324 Literature and the Other Arts
    FR 324

    Literature and the Other Arts

    "Images of Reality, Reality of Images."
    Course Description for FR 324
  • ITAL 420 Founding Mothers: Female Genealogies in Medieval and Renaissance Italian Literature
    ITAL 420

    Founding Mothers: Female Genealogies in Medieval and Renaissance Italian Literature

    ITAL 420 Founding Mothers: Female Genealogies in Medieval and Renaissance Italian Literature
    Course Description for ITAL 420
  • ITAL 240 Middle Ages and Renaissance: The Foul and the Fragrant
    ITAL 240

    Middle Ages and Renaissance: The Foul and the Fragrant

    FA19  ITAL 240 Middle Ages and Renaissance: The Foul and the Fragrant
    Course Description for ITAL 240
  • Sociophonetics of French and Gallo-Romance course
    FR 529

    Sociophonetics of French and Gallo-Romance

    FR 529 Sociophonetics of French and Gallo-Romance course
    Course Description for FR 529
  • FR 212
    FR 212

    Introduction to Cultural Analysis - French Identities

    Introduction to concepts of and debates on French national identity. Materials are drawn from a multiplicity of media and from many spheres of modern life in France: political, artistic, the everyday, etc. Identification of major resources for the study of culture and analysis of diverse cultural...
    Course Description for FR 212

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