College of Letters & Science
May 5, 2016 On April 27, Sara Mattavelli Ph.D. Candidate in Italian, was inducted as a Future Faculty Partner of the UW–Madison Teaching Academy in recognition of commitment to excellence in teaching and learning and deep interest in higher education.
April 22, 2016 Congratulations to Swetha Saseedhar an undergraduate major in French who has just been awarded a 2016-17 Wisconsin Idea Fellowship! Click here to read our interview with her.
March 4, 2016 On February 12th, Dennis Looney (Professor in the Department of French and Italian Languages and Literatures at the University of Pittsburgh) completed his visit to UW–Madison with a lecture on Dante in African-American Culture.
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.”
November 4, 2015 Undergraduate leaders in our French program have launched a new Undergraduate Student Advisory Board, otherwise known as ‘The French Ambassadors.’ This ‘French club of the new millennium’ is focused on deepening engagement between our undergrads and department faculty, staff and alumni, with a special interest in networking, career planning and innovation in French …
November 4, 2015 Dr. Ritt Deitz (Director, Professional French Masters Program) has founded the First Annual Wisconsin Round Table on French and Francophone Studies, which brought professors of French from college and university campuses across Wisconsin to Madison on October 16, to discuss current issues in French studies and in the profession. Presenters at the first …
September 1, 2015 The Department of French and Italian is very excited to introduce its new Undergraduate Certificate in Italian! Interested undergraduates can take 15 credits of intermediate and advanced Italian coursework in order to qualify. Seven qualifying courses will be available in Fall 2015.