Congratulations to Luis Marcelino Gómez! He was chosen this year for a Student Undergraduate Teaching and Staff Awards (SUTASA). SUTASA was established in 1989 to recognize outstanding undergraduate instruction at the University. Each year, a committee of 15 to 20 … Read more

A roundtable discussion on Nov. 18 at UNC will celebrate the publication of Latin American writer José María Vargas Vila’s manuscript of his novel, En los jardines de Lesbos. The event will be held at 5:30 p.m. in the Pleasants … Read more

Jessica Tanner has received the Lawrence R. Schehr Memorial Award for her paper “Branding Naturalism: The Ecology of Vice in Zola” at the Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium at Princeton. The NCFS describes the prize: “In remembrance of Larry Schehr’s profound … Read more

You may see some new faces around Dey Hall this year.  Here’s a quick introduction, though you should really try to get to know each of these amazing people better!  

*The following article originally appeared on the UNC Global Website* The home for research and study of the French, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish languages and associated cultures in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of North Carolina at … Read more

Congratulations to John Philip Couch Scholarship winner, Anna Taylor! Congratulations to our Teaching Assistant Program in France winners! Darrin Benjumea (Rouen) Rose Davis (Grenoble) Elizabeth Fisher (Besançon) Rachel Johnson (Lille) Daniel Pinelli (Limoges) Sarah Priest (Lille) Ashley Roddy (Dijon-waitlisted)   … Read more

Irene Gómez Castellano has been selected as the 2015 winner for the Premio Victoria Urbano de Creación awarded by the Asociación Internacional de Literatura y Cultura Femenina Hispánica. Irene Gómez Castellano will be awarded $500 and honored at an afternoon … Read more

Austin Cooper received a 2015-16 U.S. Fulbright Student grant to study the history of the Hôpital Franco-Musulman, opened in 1935 in Bobigny, a northern suburb of Paris, France. Entitled “Health and Community: The Social History of Paris’ Hôpital Franco-Musulman,” his … Read more

If you haven’t noticed, there’s a new face around Dey Hall this semester.  For the first time, Romance Studies was able to welcome Dr. Amanda Boomershine from UNC-Wilmington as a Visiting Associate Professor of Spanish Linguistics for Spring 2015.  She will be … Read more

Congratulations to Oswaldo Estrada, this year’s recipient of the prestigious 2015 Chapman Family Distinguished Teaching Award. He was recognized on Saturday, January 24, during the half-time ceremony at the UNC-Florida State men’s basketball game in the Dean E. Smith Center. … Read more