College of Letters & Science
December 1, 2017 Congratulations to Associate Professor, Nevine El Nossery and Teaching Assistants Lindsey Smith and Hilary Emerson! All three were selected as Fall 2017 Honored Instructors by University Housing through the Honored Instructors Program. Each semester, University Housing residents have an opportunity to honor instructors that have impacted them positively – instructors that have challenged them, …
November 27, 2017 Chef “Marietta” leads a pasta making demonstration. The Week of Italian Cuisine in the World is an annual celebration of Italian gastronomy abroad. This year the focus was on quality, sustainability, culture, food security, right to food, education, identity, territory, and biodiversity. A series of events took place around the world and …
November 21, 2017 From November 13 – 17, the Department was host to a group of master’s students from the Graduate School of Management (IAE) in Aix-en-Provence, France. The group was on campus as part of a rigorous academic study tour, the first of its kind organized between the two universities. Sponsored by the Center for Interdisciplinary French Studies and …
October 24, 2017 Group photo of French and Italian students in Morocco Students can now improve their French langauge skills in North Africa! The new UW sponsored program, called UW French Language in Morocco, allows students to spend four weeks in the city of Rabat while earning three credits. Deadline for Summer 2018 is February …
October 13, 2017 Photo of Gilles Bousquet, Andrew Irving, and Ashley Redjinski posing with French Consul General in Chicago Guillaume Lacroix During his visit last Friday, the new French Consul General in Chicago, Guillaume Lacroix, met with French-speaking academics and researchers from across campus and took a tour of the French House. As Consul, Monsieur …
October 3, 2017 Image of the cover of Dictionnaire Flaubert Faculty member Florence Vatan and graduate student Jeffrey Thomas both contributed to the Dictionnaire Gustave Flaubert that was recently published by Les Classiques Garnier in Paris. In addition to being a very focused work, the Dictionnaire Gustave Flaubert is a substantial contribution to 19th Century French Studies.