Romance Languages and Literatures
Biography of a Dangerous Idea: A New History of Race from Louis XIV to Thomas Jefferson is an engaging investigation that retraces the misunderstood history of the birth of race through the lives and ideas of thirteen pivotal figures. Moving from the gilded halls of Versailles to the slave plantations of the Caribbean, from the … Read more
Only a Little While Here, winner of the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize (2023) and Colombia’s National Novel Award (2024) has been translated from the Spanish by award winning translator Heather Cleary and published by Scribner.
Students enrolled in ITAL225: Italian/Middletown: Podcasting Middletown’s Italian Treasures, a course taught by Professor Ellen Nerenberg in Fall 2024 and Fall 2025 learned about the history of Middletown’s Italian community and conducted a hunt for Italian treasures to explore and study. As a result they have produced a wonderful podcast about how Middletown’s Italian past is related … Read more
Professor Meere and Cameron Bonnevie (French Studies and Neuroscience & Behavior, ’23) co-presented a paper titled “Talking about Transition in Early Modern France: The Case of Germain Garnier” at the 44th Annual International Conference of the Society of Interdisciplinary French Seventeenth-Century Studies. Through the story of Germain Garnier, Meere and Bonnevie problemetized the ways gender … Read more
Professor Camilla Zamboni was awarded Wesleyan’s 2025 Binswanger Prize for Excellence in Teaching. Professor María Ospina received Colombia’s 2024 Premio Nacional de Novela (National Novel Award) for her novel Solo un poco aquí, which has been translated into Italian, Portuguese and German.
