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Welcome from the Chair
Joe and Mary Borgo Talk About Career, Passions, and Giving Back
Francophone Day: Celebrating the Diversity of the Francophone World
John Jude on His Love for Travel and Experience with TAPIF
Italian 2055 Provides a Platform for Complex Conversations through Mafia Movies
Andrea Braendli Pursues Olympic Dreams and a Fourth Language
Thierno Diallo GTA Award
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Welcome from the Chair
Dear current members, alumni, and friends of the Department of French and Italian, We are happy to bring you this issue of the Ohio State Department of…
Joe and Mary Borgo Talk About Career, Passions, and Giving Back
Joe Borgo came to Ohio State as an undergraduate and earned a degree in French in 1970. He went on to get a master’s degree from the Ohio State College of Social Work (then known as the School of…
Francophone Day: Celebrating the Diversity of the Francophone World
March is Francophone month, and March 20th is International Francophone Day. This spring on March 20th FRIT hosted the Second Annual Francophone Day for High School French Students and Teachers. “…
John Jude on His Love for Travel and Experience with TAPIF
John Jude graduated from Ohio State in Spring 2021 with a major in Anthropology and minors in French, International Studies, Theatre, and Musical Theatre (he was rarely idle!). When the pandemic…
Italian 2055 Provides a Platform for Complex Conversations through Mafia Movies
Every semester FRIT offers a very popular course – Italian 2055: “Mafia Movies.” This is a general education course taught in English (GEL Visual and Performing Arts. GEN Foundation: Literary, Visual…
Andrea Braendli Pursues Olympic Dreams and a Fourth Language
In February, while some of us were keeping an eye on the Olympics on our TV screens, I received an excited email from Senior Associated Faculty in Italian Carla Onorato that said, “One of the…
