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Congratulations to our 2024 RLL Award Winners!

Celebrated yearly in March, the International Francophonie Day (Journée Internationale de la Francophonie) is a worldwide celebration that reunites francophones to celebrate French language and francophone cultures. This year, we reflect on the role of time in shaping the francophonie ; the French language has changed and continues to change to reflect the enormous diversity of francophone communities in all continents around the globe using the language for everything from everyday communication to writing scientific reports and groundbreaking literature.

Award-winning films by contemporary Latin American directors

The Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Washington University in St. Louis invites applications for a full-time lecturer in French.

Nine multiyear clusters and five yearlong programmatic grants bring together faculty across all seven schools to collaborate on new transdisciplinary research.

With Thanksgiving just around the corner, faculty members share recipes that they will include at their dinners. 

Arts & Science has announced the second cohort of internal seed grant recipients, Prof. Ignacio Infante among them

Arts & Sciences has announced the second cohort of internal seed grant recipients.

Rodrigo Viqueira, a Ph.D. candidate in our Hispanic Studies program publishes his article “La escritura fonoautográfica de Rodolfo Walsh: la grabadora y la disputa por la voz obrera en ¿Quién mató a Rosendo?” in the Latin America Literary Review

A midcentury surge of schoolteachers, trained as agents of rural progress, brought modern education to even the most remote areas of the Andean provinces of Peru. Faculty Fellow Javier García Liendo offers a preview of his book in progress, “The Children of Indigenismo: Schoolteachers and the Making of Popular Modernity in Peru.”

The new center will serve as a hub for creative writers and translators at Washington University and beyond.