ROMS faculty win a 2021-22 CFE/Lenovo Instructional Innovation Grant Profs. Lucia Binotti, Amy Chambless, Josepha Lindquist and Valérie Pruvost have been selected for a CFE/Lenovo Instructional Innovation Grant for the 2021-2022 academic year. The grant will support these professors’ project, … Read more
Prof. Heather Knorr chosen as an IAAR-SLATE Teaching Fellow for Spring 2022 Teaching Assistant Professor Heather Knorr has been awarded a Teaching Fellowship from UNC’s Institute of African American Research’s initiative for Student Learning to Advance Truth and Equity (IAAR-SLATE) … Read more
ROMS alumnus Enrique Toloza receives a Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans ROMS alumnus Enrique Toloza (BA ‘17), a Physics and Hispanic Literatures and Cultures double major, as well as a former recipient of the Sterling A. Stoudemire … Read more
Publicado el volumen «La recepción literaria de sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: un siglo de apreciaciones críticas (1910-2010)», editado por Rosa Perelmuter (Colección «Batihoja», 74) El presente volumen se ha preparado gracias a la colaboración de trece estudiosos que … Read more
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Paraguayan Guarani is a vibrant, modern language, mother tongue to millions of people in South America. It is the only indigenous language in the Americas spoken by a non-ethnically indigenous majority, and since 1992, it is also an official language … Read more
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Teaching Associate Professor and Director of the Spanish Language Program Dr. Anastacia Kohl is the recipient of the 2020 South Region Professional, Continuing and Online Education Instruction Award from the University Professional and Continuing Education Association (UPCEA) for 2020. The … Read more
The Department of Romance Studies at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, stands in unequivocal solidarity with members of our Black Community. We mourn deeply the loss of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and Breonna Taylor, and all those who before them … Read more
Italian Plague Stories and the Meaning of Pandemics Maggie Fritz-Morkin, assistant professor of Romance studies, discusses the themes of Giovanni Boccaccio’s The Decameron, which is set in Italy during the bubonic plague. Fritz-Morkin studies 13th-14th https://soundcloud.com/user-388925195/italian-plague-stories-and-the-meaning-of-pandemics
