Anne Vila Receives Prestigious Recognition
Professor Anne Vila has been awarded a 2021-2025 IRH Senior Fellowship. This is a well-deserved honor in recognition of her outstanding scholarly accomplishments.
College of Letters & Science
Professor Anne Vila has been awarded a 2021-2025 IRH Senior Fellowship. This is a well-deserved honor in recognition of her outstanding scholarly accomplishments.
Shawn Ramer has been selected as a recipient of the 2020-21 University Staff Excellence Award by the College of Letters and Science. Shawn’s tireless dedication to our department, faculty, staff, and students is exceeded only by his depth of knowledge and grace under pressure.
Congratulations to Sarah Gamalinda for being selected as one of only 15 campus-wide winners for this year’s 2020 Campus-wide TA Awards.
Kristin Phillips-Court has been selected to receive the Faculty Professional Development Grant. Congratulations on your well-deserved success, Kristin!
Congratulations to Mary Noles, Department Financial Specialist, who is the recipient of a 2019-20 University Staff Excellence Award! This award recognizes individuals in the College of Letters and Science that demonstrate performance, service, and contributions. Bravo, Mary! You are very deserving of this honor – our department would truly not be the same without your …
Dr. Ritt Deitz has been selected as the 2019 AATF-WI Chapter Distinguished French Educator. The department congratulates him on this well-deserved recognition!
Congratulations to undergraduate Samantha Zeid for receiving the highest honors in the American Journal of French Studies 2020 national writing competition in French! Samantha’s essay “Une histoire d’amour” was written in response to the prompt “Why did you start learning French?” It was placed eleventh out of the over 1,000 submissions the American Journal of French Studies received from around the country. Samantha …
For the 2019-2020 academic year, Lauren Surovi (PhD candidate in Italian) has been named one of five Mellon Public Humanities Fellows at the UW–Madison Center for the Humanities. The Mellon Public Humanities Fellows are part of Engaging the Humanities, a multi-year project generously supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation that creates opportunities for UW–Madison graduate students and …
Joshua Armstrong places recent French fiction into dialogue with some of today’s most influential theorists. ‘This book importantly addresses questions that are at the very heart of contemporary debates about our relationship to space and places in a world where borders and distance are being redefined by the forces of globalization.’ Jean-Xavier Ridon, University of …
Florence Vatan and Anne Vila have co-edited a special issue of Arts et Savoirs entitled “Entre savoir et fantasme: le corps et ses énigmes,” now available on-line: https://journals.openedition.org/aes/