College of Letters & Science
Amir Issaa (Egyptian-Italian Hip-hop Artist, Writer, Educator) was on the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus on Monday March 3rd, 2025 during his “Potere alle Parole-Vivo per Questo / Power to the Words-This is What I Live For” US Tour 2025 (the tour includes also lectures, workshops and concerts at Berkeley, Stanford, the Italian Cultural Institute in San …
Martin Rueff is a Professor of French Literature at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, as well as an acclaimed poet and translator. A specialist of 18th-century literature, especially Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Professor Rueff has also published extensively on contemporary poetry. His editorial activities include editions of Cesare Pavese’s works, Jean Starobinski’s essays as well as Claude …
This exhibit features translations and other works from the Libraries’ collection that were written by speakers participating in the upcoming Burdick-Vary Symposium on “The Work of the Literary Translator. Ethics, Aesthetics, and Politics,” February 28, 2025, co-sponsored by the Department of French and Italian and the Institute for Research in the Humanities. Burdick-Vary symposium: “The …
French Love Professor Jan Miernowski Department of French & Italian See more information on the All You Need is Love series here. The talk explores the unique perspectives on love in French and Francophone cultures through an examination of its philosophical conceptualizations as well as literary and musical representations. It delves into what makes love particularly French, …
Graduate student Mathilde Garner was one of a select number of students to receive the 2025 Language Institute Awards for Instructional Innovation with Generative AI. The awardees were among 35+ participants in a semester-long Language Institute seminar in Fall 2024 on Generative AI and the Future of Language Education, a forum for critical engagement with …
The International Division shares that UW–Madison continues to demonstrate excellence in global engagement, earning recognition in the 2024 Open Doors Report. This report is published annually by the Institute of International Education in partnership with the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.
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 comics from the Francophone world, from Canada to the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The works show great diversity of …
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. The full list of honorees can be found here. Congratulations!
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 dignitaries and recognize service in the field of education. Today it is conferred on scholars, scientists, and those in literary …
“The French House is a residence for students who want to speak French on a daily basis, but it’s also for native French speakers who are participating in exchange programs,” (Anne) Theobald said. “Having both groups together is, I think, mutually beneficial.” Read the full article in The Daily Cardinal HERE.