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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 Hanzlik…
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 paying now?"…
Check out Prof. Dana Renga's new hit iTunes course on ‘Trends in Italian Screen Studies'
More than 22,400 people browsed a new Ohio State iTunes U course “New Research Trends in Italian Screen Studies,” in just the first two and a half weeks it was available online. In that same time…
Medical Schools Seek Humanities Majors
You can't tell by looking which students at Mount Sinai's school of medicine in New York City were traditional pre-meds as undergraduates and which weren't. And that's exactly the point.Most of the…
New Prime Minister of Canada, Student of French and Literature
What can you do when you speak French and have a literature degree? Become Prime Minister of Canada!Justin Trudeau, newly elected Prime Minister of Canada, earned a bachelor's degree in French and…
On the Value of a Liberal Arts Education
James Engell, Gurney Professor of English and Professor of Comparative LiteratureBefore students may even have decided to apply to college, it still seems important to state that significant…
Film Studies Senior Seminar Produces an Issue of Film Matters
Professor Margaret Flinn’s Film Studies senior seminar this past year took an innovative approach to engaging films and other media. Flinn, graduate student teaching apprentices and students…