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News & Events
March 24, 2025
Congrats to Graduate Student Loren Lee!
March 24, 2025
Three UVa French Students Present Their Research at Johns Hopkins!
February 10, 2025
Maya Boutaghou at Georgetown
February 3, 2025
Congrats to Graduate Student Pierce Lockett on Richard Guy Wilson Prize!
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Annual Maas Prize Event: A Celebration of Undergraduate Excellence
March 26, 2025
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
TBD
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Special Peformance of Rosanie Soleil by members of Écritures Théâtrales Contemporaines en Caraïbe
April 11, 2025
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Helms Theater, UVa Drama Building
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French for Global Health: A Presentation by Justine Michel from Médecins sans frontières
April 18, 2025
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Gibson 211
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Alexander Dickow Bilingual Poetry Reading: The Distance, and You in It
April 25, 2025
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Old Dominion Bookshop, Downtown C'ville
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Recent Publications
ERNEST RENAN, QU'EST-CE QU'UNE NATION ? (1882)
Maya Boutaghou
Honore Champion PARIS (2020)
The American Enemy
Philippe Roger
University of Chicago Press (2005)
Approaches to Teaching Baudelaire's Prose Poems
Cheryl Krueger
Modern Language Association (2017)