College of Letters & Science
Dr. Vlas Dima (UW Madison), Moderator Dr. Mary Anne Lewis (Ohio Wesleyan) “The Moroccan Years of Lead Go Abroad: Globalizing the Narrator in Malika Oufkir and Michèle Fitoussi’s La Prisonnière and Tahar Ben Jelloun’s Cette aveuglante absence de lumière” Dr. Sylvie Ngilla (University of San Diego) “Afropolitanisme/Afropéanité: espaces d’identité et de création chez les dramaturges …
November 27, 2015 Assistant Professor Jennifer Gipson won the Nineteenth-Century French Studies’ Larry Schehr memorial award for the best junior faculty essay on November 7, 2015. Her essay is entitled “The Newspaper vs. the Storyteller: Phantasms of Orality and the Quarrel of the roman-feuilleton.”
Bruno Viard is the author of 13 monographs devoted to 19th-, 20th– and 21st –century literature and culture. He is specializing in the anthropological approach to literature, European Romanticism, as well as 19th-century socialism and republicanism. Among authors commented by Bruno Viard are: Michel Houellebecq and Michel de Montaigne, Marcel Proust and Marcel Mauss, Rousseau, …
Cineteca is a weekly film series showcasing a variety of Italian films with English subtitles. This is the last film of the semester. The Department of Italian will be presenting the film Una Famiglia Perfetta. In this movie, the main character, Leon, a wealthy and lonely man, creates a family for Christmas by hiring actors …
Cineteca is a weekly film series showcasing a variety of Italian films with English subtitles. The Department of Italian will be presenting Caterina Va In Citta. The story begins when Caterina’s father, Giancarlo is transferred to Rome from the small country town of Montalto Di Castro, Caterina, a 12 years old girl, will discover her …