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June 2016
This fall we welcome five new colleagues to the department, three in French and two in Spanish.
Our new French colleagues are:Stève Levillain, lecturer. A French native, Stève completed his PhD at the University of Iowa this past spring. He wrote his dissertation on urban...
May 2016
From Class Acts
PhD candidate in Spanish Alexander Eastman researches Cuba’s forgotten abolitionist and civil rights journalism.It’s tough to study a nation’s racial history when that nation denies one exists....
April 2016
Congratulations to Siham Bouamer, who has accepted a tenure-track offer from Carroll College in Helena, Montana, where she’ll be an assistant professor of French this fall...Congratulations as well...
March 2016
Spring 2016
Two of our recent graduate students in Spanish have landed tenure-track jobs during this highly competitive season....
February 2016
This year’s Massie Distinguished Visiting Professor, Nancy Morejón, has arrived on campus. Ms. Morejón is a prolific poet, scholar, and translator, as well as a leader in the Cuban arts community....
November 2015
Billy Acree, who recently received tenure in Spanish, starts off our occasional series in which RLL faculty tell the story that led to their career.
During my freshman year in college I was fortunate to take a handful of inspirational humanities classes that started me thinking about the goal of becoming a professor. I had enrolled in college as...
May 2015
ANDIA AUGUSTIN-BILLY
Today we celebrate PhD candidate Andia Augustin-Billy, who is concluding her graduate career with some singular achievements. Recently she traveled to Yale University, where she was inducted into the...
December 2014
Many of us know the name “Seth” from the book of Genesis, where he plays a minor role as the third son of Adam and Eve. Others of us think of Seth Meyers, erstwhile Saturday Night Live cast...
July 2014
We’ve had a busy few weeks in the department, even if we haven’t been there. One of the largest freshman classes in the University’s history recently completed its fall registration process, and this...
March 2014
With spring approaching, four of our faculty get big news
This winter’s heavy snowfall led to an avalanche of good news in RLL in March—and we’re not even talking about Spring Break. On Friday, March 7, the Board of Trustees met and approved our...
February 2014
Virginia Braxs, Senior Lecturer in Spanish, named one of ten St. Louis Women of Achievement for 2014
The Department of Romance Languages and Literatures congratulates Virginia Braxs on her inclusion as one of ten St. Louis Women of Achievement for 2014. This award has been given since 1955, when the...
Valéria Souza was recently invited by the University of Illinois--Chicago's Department of Disability and Human Development to give a talk currently titled "Chronic Illness as Disability: 'Access'...
January 2014
New year, new books … actually some imprints from 2013, so we’re catching up on last year’s news.
Ignacio Infante’s book, After Translation: The Transfer and Circulation of Modern Poetics across the Atlantic, has appeared with Fordham University Press. The book...
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....