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Francophone Week 2023

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.

Faculty, Research

Teaching modernity in the mountains

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.”

Celebrating outstanding faculty and staff 2022

At a ceremony and reception held Sept. 21 in Holmes Lounge, members of the Arts & Sciences community gathered to recognize recipients of the annual faculty and staff awards. Each award-winner has demonstrated exceptional service to the university through service, leadership, or teaching. Congratulations to all the awardees, including our own Miguel Valerio.

Hispanic Studies Graduate Student, Juan Manuel Ramírez Velázquez, Attends National Humanities Center Virtual Residency

Four graduate students in humanities departments at WashU attend the National Humanities Center’s Meaningful Teaching and Learning in the Humanities Classroom. During the week, WashU grad students engaged in team-based learning with graduate students from peer institutions to create instructional materials and to learn from a wide range of faculty and pedagogy-specialists from across the United States.

Williamson to study families affected by Zika

Eliza Williamson, an anthropologist and a lecturer in Latin American studies and in Romance languages and literatures, both in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, was awarded a postdoctoral fieldwork grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation for longitudinal ethnographic research with families raising children diagnosed with congenital Zika syndrome in Bahia, Brazil.

CRE2 announces new faculty fellowships

The Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity (CRE2) at Washington University in St. Louis has announced six recipients of the 2023 CRE2 Faculty Fellowships, including Javier García-Liendo, associate professor of Spanish in Arts & Sciences, who will develop “The Children of Indigenismo: Schoolteachers and the Making of Popular Modernity in Peru, 1939-1967" and Akiko Tsuchiya, professor of Spanish and affiliate professor of women, gender and sexuality studies, both in Arts & Sciences, who will develop “The Politics of Public Memory: Racist and Colonial Monuments in Modern Spain.”

Celebrating Josephine Baker

On November 30, 2021, French ConneXions Center of Excellence, the Romance Languages and Literatures Department, and the Divided City Initiative celebrated Josephine Baker’s introduction into the Panthéon in Paris.

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RLL Graduate Students Summer Fellowships with The Divided City

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Congratulations to our RLL graduate students on their Graduate Summer Research Fellowship with the Divided City.

Faculty Employment Opportunity: Lecturer in Spanish Linguistics Position

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Join us at Washington University in St. Louis.

Book edited by Jonatán Martín Gómez y Patricio Sullivan, two PhD candidates at our Hispanic Studies program

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Our PhD Candidates Jonatán Martín Gómez and Patricio Sullivan edited a volume on science fiction and technological imaginaries in the 21st-century narrative in Spanish with Albatros Ediciones.

Four inducted into Bouchet Graduate Honor Society

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Four Washington University PhD candidates were recently inducted into Bouchet Graduate Honor Society, including our Hispanic Studies Candidate, Kaché Claytor.

Romance Languages & Literatures Honors 2022

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Congratulations to our 2022 RLL Award Winners!

Vamos fazer um Podcast!

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Portuguese 103 students create podcasts with guidance from their instructor, Mark Dowell.

WashU’s French connection

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The French Connexions Cultural Center is WashU’s ambassador to the Francophone world, facilitating a network of cultural and professional opportunities for the campus and St. Louis community.

Acree appointed Dean's Fellow for Graduate Education Initiatives

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Celebrating Afro-Mexico and Its Cuisine

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Professor Valerio reflects on cuisine and scholarship at Rick Bayless’ Frontera Grill in Chicago.

Sounds of street protest

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What happens when invisibilized bodies, faces and voices occupy public spaces? That’s one of the questions that propelled graduate students Gicela Medina and Rodrigo Viqueira (both in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures) as they developed their podcast, “Street Politics Across the Americas.” Inspired by a striking increase in street actions in North, Central and South America, the Divided City Summer Graduate Student Research Fellows set out to explore the hemispheric history of street politics and analyze how public space has been politically used by marginalized groups across the Americas.

Mark Dowell, a Lecturer in the Department of Romance Languages and Literature, uses Annoto to Support Asynchronous Language Learning

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"Annoto solved the problem of encouraging collaborative speaking, listening, reading, and writing practice in the context of an asynchronous, online, language course." -Prof. Mark Dowell

New edited collection explores Indigenous and Black communities in Latin America

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Miguel Valerio, assistant professor of Spanish, and Javiera Jaque, PhD ’17, co-edited a new collection of essays about lay Catholic brotherhoods in Latin America.

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