News

PhD candidate Lauren De Camilla, received news today from the Dean of the Graduate School that she is the recipient of the Graduate Associate Leadership Award! This is a highly selective award and…

Coming in Autumn 2020: the new French and Francophone Studies Major (pending final approval by the state)

A new major program that is similar to the French major but that…

Check out this playlist of Italian films that are available for free on YouTube! Thank you to friend of FRIT, Catherine O’Rawe, for putting this together. Some films have English subtitles.

From The Lantern

"SYMPOSIUM TO DISCUSS FEMALE REPRESENTATION IN FRENCH-LANGUAGE COMICS"

Students can say, “Bonjour,” to female representation at an upcoming library event.

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Dana Renga, Department Chair and Associate Professor of Italian, discusses "Why Italian cinema is starting to glamorize the mafia" in The Conversation.

"For almost a century, American…

Stories of the harsh reality of World War II have been told in every medium, from film to literature to oil on canvas. Next week, an author will visit the university to share her mother’s story…

The Department of French and Italian Scholarship Competition 2020 is now open. All materials must be submitted online by Friday, February 14, 2020. Full details as well as the application can be…

We would like to congratulate several of our graduate alumni on recent publications in leading French & Francophone journals. Xinyi Tan (Ph.D. 2018) had her first article accepted in Dalhousie…

Mackenzie Wright, a fifth-year Romance Studies major graduating in the spring, has a unique view of medicine thanks to her interest in humanities.

“If I hadn't chosen to study Romance…