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May 2013
Our own Billy Acree, assistant professor of Spanish, is this year’s recipient of this year’s Southern Cone Studies Section 2013 Humanities Book Award of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA...
On April 26th, the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of St. Louis awarded Virginia Braxs, Senior Lecturer in Spanish, the "Adelante 2013 Civic Award of the Year."
April 2013
Publication of After Translation: The Transfer and Circulation of Modern Poetics Across the Atlantic
The department congratulates Professor Ignacio Infante on the 2013 publication of his book, After Translation: The Transfer and Circulation of Modern Poetics Across the Atlantic, with...
Fifty years ago, in the early 1960’s, two women set off in opposite directions to cross the Atlantic to spend a year living in a foreign country – France and the United States – and mastering a...
March 2013
A collection of essays by Professor Ignacio Sánchez Prado
The Department of Romance Languages and Literatures congratulates Professor of Spanish Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado on the publication of Intermitencias americanistas. Estudios y ensayos escogidos (...
Prof. Rebecca Messbarger has been awarded two prizes for her article "The Re-Birth of Venus in Florence’s Royal Museum of Physics and Natural History"...
February 2013
Discusses the evolution of language and her upcoming scholarship in China
Cindy Brantmeier, Professor of Spanish and Applied Linguistics, was a guest on NPR's "St. Louis on the Air" on Thursday, February 14th, along with fellow Washington University faculty member Prof....
January 2013
The Department of Romance Languages and Literatures congratulates Professors Rebecca Messbarger (Italian) and Tili Boon Cuillé (French), who have been selected as 2013-2014 Faculty Fellows at The...
2013 Felice Massie Distinguished Visiting Professor in Hispanic Literature
The Department of Romance Languages & Literatures welcomes Bolivian writer and Professor of Hispanic Studies at Cornell University Edmundo Paz Soldán as the 2013 Felice Massie Distinguished...
December 2012
The Department of Romance Languages and Literatures congratulates Assistant Professor of Spanish William Acree, who has been awarded a National...
[Living and Writing in Cuba Today]
On Thursday, November 8th, 2012, the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures welcomed Cuban novelist and essayist Leonardo Padura, who gave a lecture in Spanish on “Vivir y escribir en Cuba...
Structuring the art of conversation
Tili Boon Cuillé, associate professor of French and co-convener of the 18th Century Interdisciplinary Salon, discusses the musical tableaux, the relationship between science and the humanities, and...
November 2012
A podcast by Professor Rebecca Messbarger
In April 2012, experts gathered for a conference in St. Louis to discuss the life and legacy of "The Enlightenment Pope": Pope Benedict XIV. Benedict, a startlingly modern figure, used his papacy in...
September 2012
The Department of Romance Languages and Literatures congratulates Professor Cindy Brantmeier, Washington University’s 2012 Emerson Excellence in Teaching Award...
August 2012
The Department of Romance Languages and Literatures congratulates Randolph Family Professor of Spanish Elzbieta Sklodowska, who has received an honorary “Profesorado de Honor en Letras” from the...
May 2012
Details of Assistant Professor of Spanish William Acree’s Fulbright-funded research on the Creole circus can now be found in Washington University’s Spring 2012 Arts & Sciences Magazine.
April 2012
The Department of Romance Languages and Literatures congratulates Professor of Spanish Joseph Schraibman, who is the recipient of the Delores K. Kennedy Award.
The Department of Romance Languages and Literatures congratulates Joe Barcroft, Professor of Spanish and Second Language Acquisition, who received the Fulbright-García Robles Award to conduct...
The Department congratulates French faculty members Lynne Breakstone and Julie Singer, recipients of the James E. McLeod Faculty Recognition Award and the Graduate Student Senate Outstanding Faculty...
March 2012
The department congratulates Professor William Acree on the 2011 publication of his book, Everyday Reading: Print Culture and Collective Identity in the Rio de la Plata, 1780-1910, with...