Faculty Promotions
Julie Singer and William Acree have been promoted to Professor, of French and Spanish, respectively after many years of outstanding teaching and scholarship at Washington University.
William Acree is a Professor of Spanish, American Culture Studies (Affiliate) and Performing Arts (Affiliate), as well as the Director of Graduate Studies in Hispanic Studies and Associate Director of the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity. His research and teaching focus on Latin American literary and cultural history, in particular the enduring impact of everyday experiences. He has written about print and popular culture, writing and the formation of collective identities, and the ways in which forms of entertainment led people to come together across lines of class, ethnicity, and race. His most recent book, Staging Frontiers: the Making of Modern Popular Culture in Argentina & Uruguay, won the LASA 2020-Best Book Award in the Nineteenth Century. He joined the department in 2009 after completing his Ph.D. at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Julie Singer is a Professor of French and Director of Graduate Studies in French. Her research focuses on medieval French and Italian Literature and culture. Her recent book, Representing Mental Illness in Late Medieval France: Machines, Madness, Metaphor (2018) was published in Boydell and Brewer's Gallica series. She was a 2019 faculty fellow with the Center for the Humanities in Arts & Sciences at Washington University as well as the recipient of the Weiner Humanities Research Grant in 2018. Her undergraduate and graduate seminars have included the cultural memory of Joan of Arc; contacts between Europe and the East in medieval literature; and body and disability in medieval texts. She joined the department in 2007 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and after completing her Ph.D. at Duke University.
Congratulations to Professor Acree and Professor Singer!
