The Department of Romance Languages and Literatures is committed to an interdisciplinary, international, and collaborative vision of the study of language, literature, and culture. RLL is a diverse and dynamic academic unit offering undergraduate majors and minors in its core areas of French, Italian, and Spanish, and graduate concentrations in French, Spanish, and Romance Linguistics. In addition, we have emerging pedagogical and research interests in Catalan and Portuguese. RLL has cross-disciplinary strengths in Iberian and Latin American Studies, Francophone Canadian, Caribbean, and Sub-Saharan Studies, Early Modern Studies, Cultural Studies, (Post)Colonial Studies, Urban and Landscape Studies, Gender Studies, Disability Studies, Poetry, Theater and Performance, Film, and Romance Linguistics.

Valérie Hastings named as CAS Dissertation Fellow

Submitted by Amy Graves-Monroe
on Sun, 2013/04/21 - 7:30pm

Valérie Hastings has been awarded a College of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Fellowship. Fellows receive a stipend to allow them to pursue the research and writing of the doctoral thesis. Valérie is currently at work on a dissertation in the French section under the direction of the Melodia Jones Chair, Professor Jean-Jacques Thomas, entitled "Les formes de l'humain dans la fiction Francophone contemporaine" .

The thesis explores the status of animals in an image-obsessed society, presents figures of animality that express essential autofictional truths and analyzes animal metaphors that

Beth Kuberka Awarded HI Dissertation Fellowship

Submitted by Amy Graves-Monroe
on Tue, 2013/04/16 - 9:33am

Beth Kuberka, an RLL doctoral candidate in Spanish, has been named as one of the four dissertation fellows at the UB Humanities Institute for 2013-2014. She is working on a dissertation under the direction of Dr. Justin Read entitled "Domestic Space, Gender, and Familial Relations in Southern Cone Literature since 1950" that explores literary representations of domesticity under military dictatorships to illustrate a new angle on our understanding of relationships of power and politics on more marginalized sectors of society in South America.

Humanities Institute Graduate Fellows receive a

Second annual L2 workshop

Submitted by Ute Katrin Inselmann
on Fri, 2013/04/05 - 3:36pm

At the second annual workshop on second language acquisition, invited speaker Dr. Reyes Llopis-Garcí of Columbia University will focus on the topic Collaborative Learningin the Foreign Language Classroom: a Shared Co-Construction of Linguistic Ability. The workshop will run from 9:00 to 1:00pm on April 20th, 2013, in Clemens 120, with registration beginning at 8:30am on the 9th floor of Clemens Hall.

In this workshop, we will discuss Collaborative Learning as a methodological approach and how to teach with it.

Nicole Dunham and Olivier Leblond win Excellence in Teaching Award

Submitted by Amy Graves-Monroe
on Mon, 2013/03/25 - 8:44am

Each year, the Graduate School recognizes the Graduate Teaching Assistants who have demonstrated exceptional performance in the execution of their teaching responsibilities.

RLL is proud to announce that two Graduate Assistants in French, Nicole Dunham and Olivier Leblond, have been selected in this year's competition. Nicole Dunham and Olivier Leblond have gone the extra mile for their students, establishing an innovative and energetic presence in both in the classroom and in the many cultural activities in RLL. Congratulations to Nicole and Olivier on this achievement!

Study abroad funding applications now available

Submitted by Maureen Jameson
on Fri, 2013/03/08 - 2:28pm

Applications are now being accepted for the Linda Rock Memorial Scholarship and the Maria Becker Memorial Scholarship, awarded annually to RLL majors to support study abroad. Details, deadlines and application form are available here. Information on UB and SUNY study abroad programs is available on the Study Abroad website.

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