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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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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.

Baker’s Blues: St. Louis Remembers Josephine

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Lionel Cuillé writes about the University's Celebrating Josephine Baker's event in Villa Albertine.

Celebrating Josephine Baker

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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.

The devil is in the details

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Sophomore Gracie Hime reflects on her experience studying Dante’s Inferno this semester in a course taught by Michael Sherberg.

Infante's translation named one of Entropy's best poetry books of 2020–21

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Entropy named Ignacio Infante and Michael Leong’s new translation of a major Latin American avant-garde book-length poem by Vincente Huidobro one of the best poetry books of 2020–21.

Andia Augustin-Billy, PhD WashU French Alumna, is Centenary College's first Tenured Black Faculty Member

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Andia Augustin-Billy, PhD WashU French Alumna, is Centenary College's first Tenured Black Faculty Member.

Faculty Employment Opportunity: Latinx Performance Studies Position

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The Performing Arts Department (PAD) and RLL invite applications for an Associate or Full Professor in the area of Latinx Performance Studies.

The humanities: A beating heart of scholarship

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Ignacio Sánchez Prado, the Jarvis Thurston and Mona Van Duyn Professor in the Humanities, writes about the value of the humanities.

Language Teaching Fair brings together a world of language instruction

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A recent conference invited language instructors from across Arts & Sciences to discuss challenges and opportunities unique to the foreign language classroom.

France for Pre-Med in Nice program awarded Transatlantic Mobility Program grant

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The grant will provide scholarships for the five-week exchange program between Washington University and Pasteur Hospital in Nice.

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.

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