RLL offers vibrant programs in French, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish. Our language classes have long been popular with undergraduates, including those interested in international travel and those who anticipate a global dimension to their future careers. All of our classes focus on culture writ large: we study great texts, and we do so with an eye to gender roles, traditions, communities, individual freedom, social obligations, and many other topics of critical importance today. We offer concentrations in French, Italian, and Spanish, and Applied Linguistics, and introductory Portuguese. Our Ph.D. programs in French and Spanish are comprehensive and designed to prepare careers in academia, with a focus on research and teaching...Read More
The department is the home to the Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, an internationally recognized, peer-reviewed journal that publishes original manuscripts in all areas of Hispanic literatures, cultures, and film, including essays on theoretical and interdisciplinary topics. See all publications...
“Empire’s End: Transnational Connections in the Hispanic World, 1808-1898,” presented by the Department of Romance Languages & Literatures, the College of Arts & Sciences, and the Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spain’s Ministry of Culture and United States Universities, will take place February 24, 2012, at Washington University....[Read More]
Faculty Fellow, Elzbieta Sklodowska, will give talk sponsored by Center for the Humanities