Professor Andrew Curran speaks about new book on French24 television
https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/perspective/20221005-who-s-black-and-why-exploring-the-origins-of-anti-black-racism
Professor Maria Ospina’s book of fiction translated and published in Italy
Originally published in Spanish by Laguna Libros (Colombia) and Edícola (Chile) , Ospina’s book Azares del cuerpo has been translated and published in Italy by Edicola in the spring of 2020.
Andrew Curran, Professor of French and William Armstrong Professor of the Humanities, publishes Op-Ed on the history of race in Time Magazine
Andrew Curran, Professor of French and William Armstrong Professor of the Humanities, publishes Op-Ed on the history of race in Time Magazine https://time.com/5865530/history-race-concept/
Romance Languages and Literatures salutes the Sixty Majors of the Class of 2020
The Faculty of Romance Languages and Literatures wishes that it could celebrate the accomplishments of its majors in person this year. Nonetheless, we fully expect to see the class of 2020 back on campus sometime in the near future and we look forward to seeing you then. In the meantime, we would like to list … Read more
Success of Romance Languages and Literatures Program at Wesleyan Bucks National Trend
https://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2019/11/15/language-study-at-wesleyan-holds-strong-bucking-trend-of-national-declines/
Professor Michael Meere’s Class Stages Scenes from Several Mohamed Kacimi Plays
French on Stage! By Ali Friend (’19) I originally took this course was because the description emphasized that it would give students the opportunity to practice the pronunciation of French words and phrases through acting, something that I was eager to do since I returned from studying abroad in Paris last semester. This … Read more
Curran Publishes New Biography of Denis Diderot
Andrew Curran, Professor of French and William Armstrong Professor of the Humanities at Wesleyan, published Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely, in January 2019. The book has been reviewed in the New York Review of Books, the Wall Street Journal, the New Yorker, and the New York Times. Curran has also given interviews on the … Read more
Ponsavady’s New Book Examines the Development of French Transportation Systems
Stéphanie Ponsavady, assistant professor of French, is the author of a new book titled Cultural and Literary Representations of the Automobile in French Indochina: A Colonial Roadshow, published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2018. In the book, Ponsavady aims to answer the question: How are the pleasures and thrills of the automobile linked to France’s history…
Ospina’s Fiction Nominated for Prestigious Spanish American Short Story Award
A book written by María Ospina, assistant professor of Spanish and assistant professor, Latin American studies, was recently nominated for the Gabriel García Márquez Spanish American Short Story Award. The prize is awarded annually by the National Library of Colombia and the Colombian Ministry of Culture to a short story collection in Spanish that has been…