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It is with deep regret and profound sadness that the entire Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics joins together in mourning the loss of Maura Binkley, one of our cherished students. Maura was a German major in our department, who also pursued a second major in English. Her academic performance was consistently excellent, and she also excelled in her extra-curricular and study-abroad initiatives. Complete text here.
Recent Chinese graduate, Tatum Rae Shannon, is one of ten Florida State University students to receive a U.S. Fulbright Student Award. Ms. Shannon, 21, a Presidential Scholar from Jacksonville,…
Stephanie Contreras, Jhoanna Méndez and Sherez Mohamed, graduate students of the Spanish program, recently hosted a campus visit for the high-school students of the Panhandle Area Educational…
Congratulations to Dr. Mark Pietralunga, Modern Languages and Linguistics Department Chair, who received the 2019 AATI Distinguished Service Award (American Association of Teachers of Italian) for…
It is our pleasure to announce that Dr. Juan Carlos Galeano, has been awarded the Gaia Award for his documentary 'El Rio' (The River) at Cinema Verde Environmental International Film Festival USA…
The Society for French Studies is delighted to announce that the 2019 Visiting International Fellowship has been awarded to Martin Munro, Winthrop-King Professor of French and Francophone Studies and…
It is our pleasure to announce that Ester Hernandez, a PhD student in Spanish Literature and the President of the Spanish Honor Society, has received the prestigious Gabriela Mistral Award for her…
The College of Arts and Sciences hosted a Celebration of Philanthropy to thank donors and friends of the college for their generous gifts. This year’s event highlighted some of the undergraduate research that is taking place across the College. Simon Prado, who is pursuing a Bachelor of Arts in Chinese Language and Culture with an additional major in Russian and a Bachelor of Science in International Affairs with an additional major in Political Science, Spring 2020 and Shaimaa Khanam, who is pursuing a Bachelor of Arts in Editing, Writing, and Media and a Bachelor of Science in International Affairs, Spring 2019 represented their disciplines with their work on “Change and Continuity of the Masculine Ideal in the Byzantine and Slavic Epic.” Simon and Shaimaa’s research, conducted under the mentorship of Prof. Robert Romanchuk of Modern Languages and Linguistics, is forthcoming in the online UC Undergraduate Journal of Slavic and East/Central European Studies.
