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Spring 2025 Romance Languages and Literatures Award Winners

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Umrath Lounge | Tuesday, April 29th

Confronting historical ‘amnesia’: Spain’s belated reckoning with slavery

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The power of motivated mistranslation

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Did Indigenous translators intentionally mistranslate to disrupt colonization? Two WashU scholars explore this question and the crucial role of language in history.

Exciting Success for Our Graduate Students in Romance Languages & Literatures!

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Despite the uncertainties facing higher education today, our graduate students continue to excel and secure prestigious positions.

“El orgullo y la nostalgia imperiales están muy arraigados en la identidad colectiva española”

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An Interview with Akiko Tsuchiya and her co-editor Aurélie Vialette on their new book, Cultural Legacies of Slavery in Modern Spain (SUNY Press, 2025).

Food for Thought

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An undergraduate Spanish course provides a taste of Latin American literature and history.

Crossing borders, bridging divides

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Using novels and readings from all over the world, an Arts & Sciences course teaches students to look at the stories that exist on both sides of a geopolitical line.

Building trust and community

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One of WashU’s fundamental missions is to help students develop into the global leaders of tomorrow, by cultivating habits of lifelong learning and critical and ethical thinking. Here, six faculty members and administrators share their approaches and work on helping students — and the entire community — better connect and communicate, develop empathy and active listening, and grant each other grace, especially in fraught times.

A new era for the humanities

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As director of the Center for the Humanities in Arts & Sciences, Stephanie Kirk wants to empower humanities graduate students to use their expertise in a range of meaningful careers.

Food for thought

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An undergraduate Spanish course provides a taste of Latin American literature and history.

Learning the French way to better health

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After a pandemic pause, WashU undergrads were back at Hôpital Pasteur on the French Riviera over the summer, learning why the French live healthier and longer than anyone else in the industrialized world.

Carey named Dean’s Fellow for Educational Initiatives

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Amanda Carey, a teaching professor of Spanish and assistant director of undergraduate studies in Spanish, has been appointed the Dean’s Fellow for Educational Initiatives, effective Nov. 1.