Welcome to the Department of French & Italian
The Department of French & Italian at UW-Madison is home to a vibrant community of professors, academic staff, undergraduate and graduate students, guest and visiting scholars, and friends and alumni. Through our faculty members, graduate students, and undergraduates majoring in French and Italian, the department fosters a lively and engaging atmosphere for French and Italian studies.
Events
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Oct23
Research Seminar @ 4:00 pm CDT - 5:30 pm CDT TBD
Save the date! More information to come.
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Oct24
Fill the Hill 2024 - Fill the Hill
Fill the Hill serves as campus’s annual fall fundraising campaign and as an opportunity to celebrate one of campus’s most famous pranks. For each gift UW receives during the campaign, a pink lawn flamingo is …
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Oct24
Delphine Jayot @ 4:00 pm CDT - 5:30 pm CDT The French House, 633 N Frances House
Delphine Jayot is an Associate Professor at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, Hungary. She teaches 19th-century literature in the Department of French Language and Literature.
News
Now on view in the main lobby of the Memorial Library: “Francophone Comics: Evolving Understandings of the Global French-Language Bande Dessinée” (curated by French Ph.D. candidates Pete Russella and Kimberly Rooney)
In recent years, the UW-Libraries have made significant additions to their French-language comics holdings to bolster awareness of and research on these important comics voices. This exhibit features selections from the Libraries’ burgeoning collection of …
FRIT’s University Housing Honored Instructors
The Department of French and Italian’s Associate Professor Kristin Phillips-Court and graduate student TAs Kulani Jahrling and Peter Russella were nominated by their students to be University Housing Honored Instructors for the Fall 2023 semester. …
Heather Willis Allen named Chevalier de l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques
Associate Professor Heather Willis Allen has been inducted into the Ordre des Palmes Académiques at the rank of Chevalier. Dating from 1808 under Napoleonic rule, the Ordre des Palmes Académiques was established to distinguish university …
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