News

June 11, 2020
Denis M. Provencher, Professor and Head of the Department of French and Italian, will join the University of Arizona’s 2020-2021 Inclusive Leadership Cohort Certificate program.   Provencher is one of 13 faculty and staff members chosen for the…
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March 19, 2020
Dear College of Humanities Students, Despite the ever-changing challenges posed by the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19), the College of Humanities remains focused on two priorities for students: your health and your academic progress toward…
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Feb. 21, 2020
Please help us congratulate Dr. Deborah Kaye who has just published the review essay, “The Logics of Sacrifice: New Approaches to the Study of Medieval and Early Modern Antisemitism,” Religious Studies Review 45.4 (2019): 485-490. Congratulations,…
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Feb. 17, 2020
Please join us in congratulating Dr. Ania Wroblewski who has just published the following essay: “Valérie Trierweiler, ou la nouvelle autobiographie politique française.” Women in French Studies 27 (2019): 199-212.   Félicitations!
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Jan. 16, 2020
Congratulations to Dr. Fabian Alfie whose translation of Folgore da San Gimignano, along with two other poets, has just been published:  https://www.acmrs.org/9780866985987/folgore-da-san-gimignano-and-his-followers-the-complete-poems/   …
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Jan. 16, 2020
Please join us in congratulating Dr. Carine Bourget, Professor of French, Interim Head of Spanish and Portuguese, and COH Director of Special Projects, who has been awarded a $99,999 NEH grant for her project “Developing Foreign Cultures Courses for…
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Dec. 17, 2019
Please help us congratulate and welcome Dr. Lilia Coropceanu who has agreed to join us as Senior Lecturer in the Department of French and Italian beginning in fall 2020.  Lilia holds a Ph.D in French from Emory and has been working there for the…
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Dec. 6, 2019
Mark your calendars!  Sky Islands and Talk-it-OUT, will be presenting their last History-in-Action performance of 2019 this Wednesday, December 12th from 6:00 – 8:00 pm in ILC, Rm 119. This project was made possible by a grant from Arizona…
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Sept. 27, 2019
Congratulations to Dr. A-P Durand for the publication of his new essay: “La Partie émergée de l’iceberg: Frédéric Beigbeder” in Contemporary French and Francophone Studies (SITES).  23.1 (2019): 47-56.
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Sept. 19, 2019
The 10th annual Tucson Humanities Festival features 10 events offering thought-provoking lectures, panels, readings and films by faculty and special guests, including poet and author Sandra Cisneros.   As new ideas develop and new technologies…
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Sept. 5, 2019
Dr. Aurélia Mouzet, has just received an Arizona Humanities grant for the project “History in Action” in conjunction with her forum theater program, Talk It Out! and in collaboration with Sky Islands High School.  Here is more information about the…
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Aug. 28, 2019
In collaboration with The Department of French and Italian and the College of Humanities at the University of Arizona, Contemporary French Civilization published by Liverpool University Press is pleased to organize an interdisciplinary conference on…