The Department of French, Italian, and Comparative Literature strongly endorses the Statement of Solidarity Against Anti-Asian Racism and Xenophobia by UWM’s Asian Faculty and Staff Association. We affirm our commitment to supporting and advocating for students, faculty, and staff of the Asian … Continue Reading »
Collective Statement of Solidarity
Collective Statement of Solidarity In response to police violence against Black and Brown people in our city and nationwide and the recent murders of George Floyd, Tony McDade, Breonna Taylor, Joel Acevedo, Ahmaud Arbery, and a painfully long list of others, we write in strong … Continue Reading »
Alum News — Spring 2020 Dr. Manfa Sanogo, Bastien Craipain
Alum News — Spring 2020 Congratulations to MALLT alum, Dr. Manfa Sanogo (French, 2014) who moves to Kalamazoo, Michigan to take up a position of Assistant Professor in the Department of French and Francophone Studies at Kalamazoo College. Dr. Manfa … Continue Reading »
FICL endorses Center for Jewish Studies statement, “No Room for Hate at UWM”
At the start of this final week of spring classes at UWM, a student held a swastika sign near a public event celebrating Israeli Independence Day. Campus administration has noted that this reprehensible behavior is protected by the First Amendment … Continue Reading »
French Program endorses “No Room for Hate at UWM”
The French Program endorses the Department of French, Italian and Comparative Literature’s and the Sam & Helen Stahl Center for Jewish Studies’ statements : “No Room for Hate at UWM”.… Continue Reading »
UWM Alum Tim Lomeli talks about his experience receiving FLAS in 2016
UWM alum Tim Lomeli talks about his experience receiving a graduate summer Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (FLAS) in 2016 to study Haitian Creole. Watch the video here.… Continue Reading »
French, Italian, and Comparative Literature supports Prof. Williams
We support FICL faculty member Demetrius Williams in his efforts to work with local organizations and investigate apparent racial profiling in our community. Two black pastors wanted help with a flat tire. A sheriff’s deputy asked if they had guns … Continue Reading »
Learning French from Spanish and Spanish from French
Announcing Professor Anita Alkhas’s latest publication: Learning French from Spanish and Spanish from French. Language learners with intermediate proficiency in a second language are used to thinking consciously about language, know themselves as language learners, and can capitalize on what they know about one language to understand the other. … Continue Reading »
Kati Latta: In Focus
The April 2017 issue of the UWM College of Letters & Science’s online newsletter In Focus features an article about Kati Latta, a double major in French and Global Studies. Kati will graduate in May 2018 but will be back … Continue Reading »
Taubira Returning to UWM
Welcome back to UWM, Mme. Christiane Taubira! After receiving her honorary doctorate from UWM in January, 2016, has accepted a five-year appointment as UWM honorary professor in the Department of French, Italian, and Comparative Literature and is affiliated as research … Continue Reading »