Welcome
The Department of French & Italian at UW-Madison is home to a vibrant community of professors, academic staff, undergraduate and graduate students, guest and visiting scholars, and friends and alumni. With 28 faculty members, over 75 graduate students, and a large number of undergrads majoring in French and Italian, the department fosters a lively and engaging atmosphere for French and Italian studies.
Spring Course Previews
Literature in Translation 302: What is Life?
French 211: Exploring Paris
Upcoming Events
[tribe_events_list limit=”5″ tribe-bar=”false”]
News
2024 Open Doors Report: UW–Madison ranked #8 for study abroad and #18 for international students
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 …
Temporarily on view in the main lobby of the Memorial Library: “Francophone Comics: Evolving Understandings of the Global French-Language Bande Dessinée” (curated by French Ph.D. candidates Pete Russella and Kimberly Rooney)
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 …
FRIT’s University Housing Honored Instructors
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. …
- More News posts