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Associate Professor of French Benjamin Hoffmann presented his new novel L'île de la Sentinelle on French national TV on "L'essentiel chez Labro"! Check out the video.

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Professor Marx-Scouras's spring 2022 class French 5403: “Minor Art” from Gainsbourg to Stromae: Popular Music as a Political Act allowed students to engage with French and Francophone music.…

Congratulations to Professor Jonathan Combs-Schilling, who was recently promoted to Associate Professor!

Combs-Schilling’s principal field of research and teaching is Medieval and…

Congratulations to Lucille Toth on winning the 2022 Best New Undergraduate Mentor Award! Toth is an Assistant Professor of French at OSU-Newark, affiliated with Ohio State Dance department. She…

A huge thank you to FRIT's Wynne Wong and Québec Government Office in Chicago for organizing "Mental Health and Music: An Evening with Quebec's Polyglot Florence K" on April 13th. Over 200 people…

Congratulations to Sarah-Grace Heller, who has been appointed by Interim Executive Dean David Horn as Department Chair of the Department of French and Italian! Heller will begin her four year term…

Over the weekend of March 18-19, Assistant Professor of Italian Jonathan Combs-Schilling, who specializes in Medieval and Renaissance Italian Literature, was invited to join the Columbus Symphony…

Congratulations to FRIT's Lucille Toth, Assistant Professor of French, and Maggie Flinn, Associate Professor of French, for recently winning substantial A&H Grants for their respective…

Sarah-Grace Heller, an associate professor of French, specializes in medieval French and Occitan literature, language and material culture. Her most recent book is a cultural history of fashion in…