The incomparable beauty of medieval France: the chateau at Gien evokes the solemn grandeur of an earlier age.

The remote solemnity of this Portuguese church evokes through its simple architecture an enduring natural beauty.

Toledo, the city where Spain’s three great religions (Christian, Jewish, Muslim) intermingled to produce an abundant richness of culture.

A great river flows through it: the Tiber juxtaposes monuments from Rome’s imperial past with its Catholic present.

One of Latin America’s storied cities, Havana, Cuba bears the marks of Caribbean culture from colonial times to the present.

Overview of Programs

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, as well as a composite major in Romance Languages, and courses in 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

Publications

Our faculty members are authors, co-authors, editors, and co-editors of a variety of published works, and as the fall semester begins, we would like to highlight our faculty's most recent publications!

Professor of Spanish, International and Area Studies, and Comparative Literature Tabea Linhard co-edited Mapping Migration, Identity, and Space, which was published by Palgrave MacMillan.

Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado, professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies, published Strategic Occidentalism: On Mexican Fiction, the Neoliberal Book Market, and the Question of World Literature this year with Northwestern University Press.

Julie Singer, associate professor of French, has also published a new book entitled Representing Mental Illness in Late Medieval France. Machines, Madness, Metaphor. with Boydell & Brewer.

Professor of Spanish and Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies (Affiliate) Akiko Tsuchiya co-edited a book entitled, Unsettling Colonialism: Gender and Race in the Global Nineteenth-century Hispanic World, which will be forthcoming from SUNY Press.

September 20, 2018

Two RLL Alumni Win LASA Awards

The Department of Romance Languages and Literatures congratulates two alumni of our Spanish Graduate Program, who are recipients of awards at this year’s Latin American Studies Association conference. Iván Eusebio Aguirre Darancou and Alexander Sotelo Eastman were each presented with the following 2018 LASA honors:

2018 LASA MEXICO SECTION BEST DISSERTATION AWARD
Presented by the Mexico Section
Winner
Iván Eusebio Aguirre Darancou
University of California, Riverside
Consuming Bodies: Countercultural Citizens of Mexican Capitalism in the 20th Century

PREMIO MEJOR DISERTACION SIGLO XIX
Presented by the Nineteenth-Century Section
Honorable Mention
Alexander Sotelo Eastman
Dartmouth College
"Binding Freedom: Cuba's Black Public Sphere,1868-1912." Diss. Washington University in St. Louis, 2016

Oct
25
Prof. Consuelo (Chelo) Naranjo (CSIC-Madrid) Talk is in Spanish
Women's Building Formal Lounge 6:30 PM Reception Prior to Talk 7:00 PM @ 7:00pm
Nov
09
Keynote speaker is Lionel Cuillé Jane and Bruce Robert Chair of French and Francophone Studies and Director of the Centre francophone, Webster University
Ginkgo Room, Olin Library @ 3:00pm
Nov
15
Julio Ariza, Latin American, Latino and Caribbean Studies, Spanish & Portuguese, Dartmouth University
Women's Building Lounge Reception at 6:30PM followed by talk at 7:00PM @ 7:00pm