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Troy Weider Receives Huntington Fellowship
Congratulations to student of French, Troy Weider, who recently received the Huntington Fellowship!
The Huntington International Fellowships are intended to permit students majoring in…
FRIT Participation in the Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages and Literatures
A number of our current and former students in French recently participated in the annual Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Cincinnati. They took a…
FRIT Nominations
Five of our lecturers in FRIT received nominations this year for a university-wide award, the Provost's Award for Distinguished Teaching by a Lecturer! That's 3% of the total number of nominations…
New Course: French 3301 - Discovering Second Language Acquisition
Professor Wynne Wong
Autumn 2016, WF 9:35-10:55 AM
Do you like languages? Are you currently learning a language and wish to understand how to learn it better? Do you hope to teach…
History 3263: Je suis Charlie?
The Department of History is offering the following course in Autumn 2016.
"People the world over were shocked in 2015 when terrorists gunned down first French cartoonists in their offices,…
FRIT Alumni, Jessica Hanzlik, in the News
Jessica Hanzlik: At the head of a classOhio State’s first female Rhodes Scholar turned her attention from the laboratory to the classroom midway through her two years at Oxford.
Jessica…
Elizabeth Willis Wins Bourse Gaston-Miron
Elizabeth Willis, a PhD candidate studying French in the Department of French and Italian, has been awarded the Bourse Gaston-Miron grant from the Association Internationale des Études…
Hoffmann Publishes Fourth Novel
Benjamin Hoffmann, assistant professor, early modern French studies, has published American Pandemonium (2016), with Gallimard, one of the leading French publishers of books. The novel is an epic…
What Is The Value Of An Education In The Humanities?
In a recent Skype call with a Dutch friend, we discussed her kids and their college experience. Apparently, there had been protests on campus about costs and payments.
"How much are they…