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Department of French & Italian
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Department of French & Italian.

Department of French & Italian

Welcome to the Department of French and Italian at the University of Minnesota. The Department offers undergraduate and graduate courses on the language, literature, and culture of France, the broader francophone world, and Italy. At all levels, our courses are designed to provide linguistic skills and to enhance the kind of critical thinking needed to explore other cultures, other historical periods, and to discover what makes them meaningful today.

 
Events

  • Lecture: Andrea Ciccarelli, Crossing Borders: Considerations on Contemporary Italian Literature, 4/23, 3 pm, Folwell 10

    Andrea Ciccarelli is Professor of Italian at Indiana University. He has published widely on Italian literature and culture, with a particular emphasis on modern and contemporary writers. His current book projects are on Exile, Migration, Borders in Contemporary Italian Culture and Tradition and Innovation in Modern Italian Culture. Andrea Ciccarelli is the editor of Italica, the quarterly journal of the American Association of Teachers of Italian.


    Monday, April 23, 2012
    3:00 pm, Folwell 10

    A reception follows the lecture.

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  • Lecture: Eric Marty, "Why Did the 20th Century Take Sade Seriously?" (4/20, 3pm, Folwell 123)

    Eric Marty -- Professor, Université Paris 7-Diderot
    "Why Did the 20th Century Take Sade Seriously?"

    Friday April 20, 2012 at 3:00 pm

    Folwell 123
    A reception will follow the lecture.

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  • Roundtable: Corbin Treacy

    Human Rights Graduate Minor Colloquium, "Human Rights Research in Action"
    Leah Entenmann & Corbin Treacy
    Monday April 23, 2012, 3:30 pm
    260 Social Sciences

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News

  • Congratulations: Severine Bates awarded a fellowship at UMN-Morris!!

    Séverine has been awarded a fellowship!

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  • Congratulations: Rachel Gibson awarded an SSRC-IDRF!

    The Social Science Research Council has awarded Rachel an International Dissertation Research Fellowship for 2012, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Rachel will be doing research at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (Paris), and at the Biblioteca Marciana (Venice).

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  • Congratulations: Anna Rosensweig a Hella Mears Fellow!

    Anna was awarded a Hella Mears Graduate Fellowship for Summer 2012 for her dissertation, "Tragedy and the Ethics of Resistance Rights in Early Modern French Theater."

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