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Graduate Student Emily Marks receives the Chateaubriand Humanities and Social Sciences FellowshipJune 21, 2022Emily Marks received a Chateaubriand Humanities and Social Sciences Fellowship to support her dissertation research in Paris for Fall 2022. |
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Graduate Student Meghan O'Donoghue receives Fulbright AwardJune 21, 2022Meghan O’Donoghue recently received a Fulbright Open-Research Award to conduct archival research in Aix-en-Provence, France, for six months in Fall |
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Two Essay Contests - Opportunity to win up to $5000.February 28, 2022Please consider submitting essays for these two essay contests we have in the UVa French Department: you can win as much as $5000! |
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Summer Language InstituteFebruary 10, 2022The 2022 Summer Language Institute is now accepting applications! |
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Department of French's Dr. Karen James engages with Global MentorJanuary 14, 2022Karen Simroth James shares her thoughts on the Global Mentor Experience |
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Graduate Symposium - Rethinking the MarginDecember 4, 2021Rethinking the Margin: From the Middle Ages to the Present Day the department of French • The University of Virginia |
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"Fingers, Flesh and The Power of Touch in Madame Bovary."November 29, 2021"Fingers, Flesh and The Power of Touch in Madame Bovary." |
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NCFS Unbound with Kari Weil and Cheryl KruegerNovember 19, 2021On Friday, November 19, 2PM Eastern Kari Weil (Wesleyan University) will be discussing her new book, Precarious Partners: Horses and their Huma |
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Dr. Cheryl Krueger presents "Flower Power: Stories of Violet Perfume" at 19th Century French Studies Conference in DCOctober 28, 2021Cheryl Krueger will present her paper "Flower Power: Stories of Violet Perfume" at the 46th Annual Nineteenth -Century French Studies Conference (O |
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Dr. Claire Lyu presents "When the World Comes to Matter: A proposal for a Post-Linguistic Understanding of Poetry" in DCOctober 27, 2021Claire Lyu will present her paper "When the World Comes to Matter: A Proposal for a Post-linguistic Understanding of Poetry" at the 46th Annual Nin |
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Dr. Elizabeth Hall presents “Curriculum Design and Equity in Language Learning” at the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and LearningOctober 27, 2021 |
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Dr. Cheryl Krueger speaks on "The Language of Perfumers in Nineteenth-Century France" at the colloquium Le Parfumeur: Évolution d'une figure depuis la RenaissanceOctober 14, 2021On October 14, Cheryl Krueger spoke on "The Language of Perfumers in Nineteenth-Century France" at the colloquium Le Parfumeur: Évolution d'une |
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Mamadou Dia film Baamum Nafi selected as a contender for the Golden Stallion AwardSeptember 28, 2021Our colleague Mamadou Dia's film "Baamum Nafi" (Nafi's Father) has been selected as the only feature-length Senegalese film in competition for the 2021 "l'étalon d'or du Yennenga" to be given at the Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou (FESPACO) in Burkina Faso! |
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A message from UVA students to Professor Lyons on the occasion of his retirementJune 2, 2021 |
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Class of 2021 Virtual GraduationMay 21, 2021 |
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Congratulations to Marina Peebles, recipient of the 2021 IWL (Institute of World Languages) Distinguished Undergraduate AwardApril 12, 2021 |
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Congratulations to Anna Johnson, Caroline Still and Kathryn Williams selected to Phi Beta Kappa Society.March 31, 2021Three French Majors elected for Phi Beta Kappa Society |
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Maya Boutaghou presenting on Assia Djebar’s movies on April 1st at the Essay Film Festival.March 23, 2021Maya Boutaghou will be presenting on Assia Djebar’s movies April 1st at the Essay Film Festival.
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New Book by Amy OgdenMarch 15, 2021Congratulations to Amy Ogden whose Life of Saint Eurfosine has just been published in the MLA’s Texts and Translations series. |
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Welcome! Abiol Lual Deng, Global Mentor in FrenchMarch 9, 2021
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Mamadou Dia at the 2021 Oscars!March 9, 2021Mamadou Dia’s film at the 2021 Oscars: “Baamum Nafi” in the race |
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Roundtable with writer Nathalie QuintaneMarch 1, 2021 |
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Virtual Open House for residing in French House 2021-2022 January 25th from 7:30 pm - 8:30 pmJanuary 25, 2021 |
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Ph.D student Claire-Marie Brisson interviewed by Canadian Telejournal about assault on CapitolJanuary 8, 2021 |
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Congratulations to Mya SingletonDecember 18, 2020Congratulations to Mya Singleton French, major; Bioethics minor (2020) for receiving one of two Academic Achievement Abroad awards given by the |