| Department of French & Italian

Le Cercle Francophone at the Chancellor's Inaugural Public Engagement Summit

2024-12-22

Professor Aurore Mroz and two PhD students, Macha Petre and Scarlet Peterson, presented an innovative public engagement project, Le Cercle Francophone (The Francophone Circle), at the Chancellor's Inaugural...

Choix Goncourt 2025: Select the Best French Novel of the Year

2024-12-20

The Villa Albertine's Choix Goncourt, or Goncourt Prize Selection, gives undergraduate students in French from campuses across the United States the opportunity to participate in the...

Assistant Professor Ciro Incoronato joins faculty

2024-08-16

We are delighted to welcome Assistant Professor Ciro Incoronato (PhD 2024, Duke University) who is new graduate faculty in Italian Studies. He comes to us with extensive teaching and service experience and is an expert on Mediterranean and transnational Italian literatures, cultures, and...

Endangered Languages in the 21st Century

"Its 18 chapters provide a wide-ranging snapshot of the state of endangered languages in the contemporary world – including a great deal of historical background – and the methods and practices that...

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French in US Minority Cultures

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8-week, online March 17-May 5, 2025 Introduction to the history of French as a heritage language in African American, Native American, and Cajun American communities in North America from early colonial to late modern times. Focus on the lived experiences and lasting heritage of contact and segregation between colonizers, farmers, refugees, and free and enslaved populations in the American Midwest and South. Taught in English. Online, one synchronous session with the instructor available for discussions on three Thursdays per month from 4-5:20 pm. This course satisfies the General Education...

Professor Emerita Armine Mortimer publishes new translation

2023-12-13

Professor Armine Kotin Mortimer, Professor Emerita of French Literature in FRIT, has published the translation of Julia Kristeva’s “Dostoyevsky in the Face of Death or Language Haunted by Sex” at Columbia University Press. Professor Mortimer, recipient of the 2020 NEA Translation Fellowship,...

21st Century Black Beauty Resistance

2023-12-09

Join us in congratulating Amanda Smith who successfully defended her PhD dissertation on Friday, December 1. Her dissertation opened a new, and hopefully lasting, focus of our program on Black collectivism and French Black women individuality. Titled “21st Century Black Beauty Resistance:...