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April 22, 2021
Fulfill Degree Requirements with French! All courses are fully online (asynchronous) and fulfill Gen Ed requirements unless otherwise indicated*.   Summer Pre-Session (05/17/2021 - 06/05/2021) FREN                  101                    Elementary…
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March 29, 2021
Please help us in congratulating Kendyl Bostic, a French major in the Department of French Studies, who is the spring 2021 recipient of the Van de Verde Memorial Scholarship, part of the generous College of Humanities scholarship program. We are…
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March 3, 2021
Please help us in congratulating Dr. Aurélia Mouzet whose article has just appeared in print: "Terre promise? Terre maudite? Le mythe de l'exode et la quête d'une (post)mémoire transatlantique dans La saison de l'ombre de Léonora Miano." Etudes…
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March 3, 2021
  Dr. Aurélia Mouzet and some of the graduate students in the Department of French Studies enjoying a socially distant get-together.   There’s nothing better than a hike in our beautiful Saguaro National Park to get to know each other, enjoy the…
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Jan. 21, 2021
For the second consecutive year, the Department of French & Italian has received a grant to host the Tournées Film Festival, this year presenting a virtual, weekly series of seven films.   Faculty and graduate students will introduce and lead…
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Jan. 19, 2021
Denis M. Provencher has been awarded a research chair for fall 2021 by the Université d’Ottawa, where he will conduct research on the queer immigrant Francophone community in Canada.   Provencher, Professor and head of the University of Arizona…
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Jan. 4, 2021
Please help us to congratulate Dr. Lucy Swanson whose article has just been published: “Magical Thinking in Chamoiseau’s Chemin-d’école: From Quimbois to the Mission civilisatrice.” Small Axe vol. 24, no. 3 (63), November 2020: pp. 16–30.  …
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Dec. 18, 2020
Please help us to congratulate Dr. Denis Provencher, Dr. A-P Durand, and Dr. Nicoleta Bazgan (UMBC) whose co-edited special issue “Contemporary French Civilization-s” has just been published.  For more information, please visit:  https://www.…
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Dec. 7, 2020
Please help us to congratulate Dr. Kris Knisely who has two articles that have just appeared or will soon appear in the following journals.   Knisely, K. (2021). Le français non-binaire: linguistic forms used by non-binary speakers of French. …
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Dec. 7, 2020
Dr. Lucy Swanson and Dr. Kris Knisely have just received a grant from the FACE Foundation to organize the Tournées Film Festival at the University of Arizona in Spring 2021.  For more information about Tournées, please visit: https://face-foundation…
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Dec. 7, 2020
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Dec. 1, 2020
Dr. Denis Provencher has been named a research chair as part of the Chaire mobilité francophone program at Université d’Ottawa for fall semester 2021.  The Francophone Mobility Chairs are awarded to international researchers who are recognized as…