We thank our colleagues in the Department of English and Comparative Literature for their permission to adapt their statement on the toppling of the statue for our own department. Related links: Statement of Malinda Maynor Lowery, Director of the Center … Read more

Congratulations to Dr. Oswaldo Estrada for his new book TROUBLED MEMORIES. ICONIC MEXICAN WOMEN AND THE TRAPS OF REPRESENTATION (SUNY PRESS, 2018). In Troubled Memories, Oswaldo Estrada traces the literary and cultural representations of several iconic Mexican women produced in the … Read more

Summer Study Abroad in Cusco Peru “My students studied Spanish and did community service work in neighboring villages. The Healthy Homes project improves living conditions for these villagers with water filters, hygienic storage and cleaner burning stoves. Students enjoy the … Read more

Romance Studies’ own Jo Lindquist will be a Faculty Mentor with the Johnston Scholarship Program though 2022.  This scholarship has been a fixture at UNC for nearly 50 years, targeting some of the best and brightest undergraduates and helping them become … Read more

Hannah Clager, Class of 2013 Art History (Major) / African Studies (Minor) Hannah began her studies in French at Georgetown University, while she was an art student at the Corcoran College of Art & Design in Washington, D.C. After transferring … Read more

Congratulations to Claire Houlihan! Congratulations to Claire Houlihan, winner of the 2018 John Philip Couch Award of the North Carolina Association of Teachers of French. She will study in Montpellier this fall.

Jacob Larson, a double major in French and Linguistics, has been awarded a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) for summer 2018. He will be studying Paw-Paw French, an isolated dialect that has been spoken in Missouri for over 300 years. … Read more

Congratulations to ROMS PhD candidate Wesley Costa de Moraes who just accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Spanish at the State University of New York at Geneseo.    

Dr. Carmen Hsu has been awarded an NEH Fellowship to conduct research at the Newberry Library and finish her book on “Asia in the Making of Early Modern Spain” during the 2018-19 academic year.

Congratulations to Lizzie Jones, a ROMS first year PhD student, for the publication of her article “Frida Kahlo and Pendular Disability Identity: A Textual Examination of El diario de Frida Kahlo.”