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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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Published article by Soledad Mocchi-Radichi, a Ph.D. candidate in our Hispanic Studies program

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Soledad Mocchi-Radichi, a Ph.D. candidate in our Hispanic Studies program publishes an article in the journal, Latin American Theatre Review.

Prof. Acree featured on podcast about his book, Staging Frontiers: the making of modern popular culture in Argentina and Uruguay

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Prof. Acree featured on podcast about his book, Staging Frontiers. The Making of Modern Popular Culture in Argentina and Uruguay.

Majority-Minority Myths

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Weidenbaum Center Faculty Research Fellow Jake Rosenfeld authors article in Dissent Magazine

Professor Acree serving as faculty marshal in Spring 2021 graduate school commencement

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Professor Acree will be a faculty marshal at graduate school commencement.

Prof. Moraña publishes two new books: Pensar el cuerpo Historia, materialidad y símbolo and Líneas de fuga ciudadanía, frontera y sujeto migrante

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Two new publications by Prof. Moraña, Professor of Spanish and Program Director of Latin American Studies and William H. Gass Professor in Arts and Sciences

Hostile Terrain 94 in review

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This booklet tells the story of bringing the Hostile Terrain 94 exhibit to our city of St. Louis. Just as the exhibit itself is a memorial for those who have lost their lives unnecessarily in the U.S.-México borderlands, this booklet is a memorial to the work of communities who fight for justice and human dignity in our world today. We hope that this document inspires the continuation of such work long after the exhibit itself is no longer in St. Louis.

Assistant Professor Miguel Valerio selected as 2021 Career Enhancement Fellows at The Institute for Citizens & Scholars

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RLL Faculty Promotions: Julie Singer and William Acree have been promoted to Professor, of French and Spanish

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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.

RLL Faculty & Students share their poetry on Life/Lines

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RLL Faculty and Students participate in the Center for Humanities Poetry Exercises, Life/Lines.

Hispanic Studies PhD Candidate Olivia Lotts Earns the Marilyn Yarbrough Dissertation/Teaching Fellowship at Kenyon College

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Congratulations to Olivia Lott (ABD, Hispanic Studies), who has received the Marilyn Yarbrough Dissertation/Teaching Fellowship at Kenyon College for 2021-22 academic year.

Francophone Week Meme Contest Winners

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Enjoy these Francophone Meme Contest Winners

Three Arts & Sciences students participate in Q&A with Leïla Slimani

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Three Arts & Sciences students participate in Q&A with Leïla Slimani.

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