Will Thomason graduated from UNC with a major in Hispanic Literatures and Cultures. Here, he shares his experiences as a Fulbright Fellow teaching in Colombia: As a recipient of the Fulbright Fellowship, I am currently working at a university in … Read more
An exhibit co-curated by Assistant Professor Maggie Fritz-Morkin and librarian Rachel Reynolds recently went up at Wilson Library. With poet RK Fauth (creator of the UNPRECEDENTED Project), Dr. Fritz-Morkin designed the display around the themes of the interplay of text and image, … Read more
Sunday, February 27 UNC Women’s Lacrosse held Faculty Appreciation Day with a halftime recognition of the team’s professors. Romance Studies was among the departments represented.
PhD Candidate Sarah Booker has just published her translation of Jawbone, a novel by Mónica Ojeda, with Coffee House Press. An accomplished translator, Sarah has also produced the English-language versions of Cristina Rivera Garza’s The Iliac Crest (Feminist Press, 2017; … Read more
Dorothea Heitsch among 2022 Schwab Award Recipients Dorothea Heitsch is one of the recipients of the 2022 Schwab Academic Excellence Award from the UNC Institute for the Arts and Humanities.
Lamar Graham Lamar Graham is an assistant professor of Spanish in the Department of Romance Studies within the UNC College of Arts & Sciences. He studies historical grammar and sound changes within the Spanish language and compares them to those … Read more
Read all the essays here. Latinx Voices at Carolina Rosa Perelmuter Professor, Romance Studies My identity — or the person I thought I was — has been challenged through most of my life. I remember walking to grade school in … Read more
ROMS Faculty Dorothea Heitsch, Montpellier Faculty Nicolas Gachon, and Resident Director of UNC in Montpellier Programs Carol Huber win Transatlantic Mobility Grant jointly funded by The Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the U.S., NAFSA, the FACE Foundation, the U.S. Embassy … Read more
Summer Research Fellow Spotlight: Elena Peña-Argüeso (’19 MA) Source: https://gradschoolmagazine.unc.edu/2021/08/summer-research-fellow-spotlight-elena-pena-argueso-19-ma/ International Ph.D. student Elena Peña-Argüeso (’19 MA) completed her undergraduate studies in English literature at the University of Sevilla and found a pathway to pursue graduate studies at the University of North … Read more
Serenella Iovino’s “Italo Calvino’s Animals” is out from Cambridge University Press A new title enriches the fields of Italian Studies and Environmental Humanities: Serenella Iovino’s Italo Calvino’s Animals: Anthropocene Stories has been published on August 24th by Cambridge University Press. … Read more
