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Professor Incoronato on Italian American and African American Experience in Movies
After a successful Fall 2024 semester teaching about the Italian capital, Rome (ITAL 156), and Italian Culture in a European and global context, including the mafia (ITAL 406) Professor Ciro Incoronato is gearing up to teach the Italian program's minority general education course ITAL 250 'Minority...
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FRIT and SLCL Staff Recognized at Holiday Luncheon
FRIT office manager Anne Olmstead and office support specialist Linh Tran were recognized with a small gift by faculty and graduate students at this year's FRIT Holiday Luncheon on Wednesday, December 11 from 11 to 2 pm. Each year, the buffet-style Luncheon opens at 11 am and runs continuously...
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Professors Gaillard, Maroun, and Reynolds awarded COVID-19 Revitalization Fellowships
Heartfelt congratulations to Professors Julie Gaillard, Daniel Maroun, and Felisa Reynolds who received an LAS COVID-19 Revitalization Fellowship that will allow them to focus more on their ongoing research in the academic year 2025-26. Their...
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Le Cercle Francophone at the Chancellor's Inaugural Public Engagement Summit
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...
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Choix Goncourt 2025: Select the Best French Novel of the Year
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...
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Assistant Professor Ciro Incoronato joins faculty
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...
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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
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...
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Professor Emerita Armine Mortimer publishes new translation
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,...
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21st Century Black Beauty Resistance
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:...