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24 May: Sam Amago named Bowman & Gordon Gray Distinguished Term Professor

Many many congratulations to Professor Sam Amago who has been named as the Bowman and Gordon Gray Distinguished Term Professor! The Bowman and Gordon Gray…

28 Apr: 2016 Honors in French

We are truly proud of our students! Lucas Godley, a double major in French and Linguistics, has been awarded a John Phillip Couch Scholarship to…

10 Apr: Statement from the Department of Romance Studies Faculty Regarding House Bill 2

The faculty of the Department of Romance Studies at Chapel Hill affirms and recognizes the University’s Policy Statement on Non-Discrimination (as revised October 2, 2015)…

30 Mar: Rosa Perelmuter wins University Diversity Award

The Department of Romance Studies congratulates Professor Rosa Perelmuter, director of the Moore Undergraduate Research Apprentice Award and Professor in our department, on being selected as a 2016 recipient…

22 Mar: Spring 2016 Phi Beta Kappa Initiates

The Department of Romance Studies is pleased to announce that the following majors will be initiated into Alpha of North Carolina Chapter of Phi Beta…

14 Mar: Recent Faculty Publications

The faculty in Romance Studies have produced many great works recently.  Check out the newest titles below: Dominguez, Frank. Carajicomedia: Parody and Satire in Early…

2 Feb: Rocha Vivas (PhD, 2015) awarded Premio Literario Casa de las Américas 2016

Miguel Rocha Vivas, PhD in Romance Studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2015 (advisor, Professor Emilio del Valle Escalante), has…

19 Jan: Sam Amago receives award from IAH

Congratulations to Dr. Sam Amago, who has recently won an award from the Institute for Arts & Humanities. Dr. Amago has been selected by the Faculty…

11 Jan: Rosa Perelmuter wins $1,000,000 Mellon Grant

Congratulations to Prof. Rosa Perelmuter, Principal Investigator of a 4-year, $1,000,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in support of the Moore Undergraduate Research…

7 Jan: Dorothea Heitsch wins 2016 Chapman Award

Congratulations to Dorothea Heitsch, who is this year’s recipient of the prestigious 2016 Chapman Family Distinguished Teaching Award for proven excellence in undergraduate education. The…

20 Nov: UNC Teaching Award to Luis Marcelino Gomez

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…

11 Nov: Celebrating an early unpublished Latin American novel on Nov. 18

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…

11 Nov: Jessica Tanner wins Lawrence R. Scherhr Award

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…

13 Aug: Newest Members of the Department

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…

9 Jun: A New Name for our 106-year-old Department

*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…

1 Jun: Couch Scholarship and Teaching Assistant Program in France (TAPIF)

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…

1 Jun: Gómez Castellano wins Award for Poetry

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…

17 Apr: French Majors win Fulbrights

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…

6 Feb: ROMS Welcomes First Visiting Professor

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…

6 Feb: And the Chapman Family Distinguished Teaching Award goes to…

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…