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 »
Michèle Kenfack publishes critical re-edition of 1903 Marcelin novel
Michèle Kenfack, a 2013 graduate of the MALLT program with a concentration in French-to-English translation and a former teaching assistant in French at UWM, recently published a critical re-edition of Frédéric Marcelin’s 1903 novel, Marilisse: roman haïtien. Kenfack, who is now a PhD … Continue Reading »
Newest Publication from UWM’s Sarah Davies Cordova
Professor Davies-Cordova studies the often painful Haitian past with her newest publication: “Ending the Haunting, Halting Whisperings of the Unspoken: Confronting the Haitian Past in the Literary Works of Agnant, Danticat, and Trouillot” in Breaking Intergenerational Cycles of Repetition : … Continue Reading »
Translator Without Borders Volunteer Profile: Selima ben Chagra
Translators Without Borders’ Volunteer page currently features a great profile of Selima ben Chagra, a 2015 graduate of UWM’s MA program in Language, Literature, and Translation, with a concentration in French to English Translation, and a former teaching assistant in … Continue Reading »
A New Publication from Professor Sarah Davies Cordova
The Department of French, Italian and Comparative Literature, and the French program at UWM are proud to announce the publication of “African Refugees Asunder in South Africa: Performing the Fallout of Violence in Every Year, Every Day, I Am Walking” in the … Continue Reading »
A conversation with poet Joséphine Bacon, with bilingual readings in French and Innu
A conversation with poet Joséphine Bacon, with bilingual readings in French and Innu… Continue Reading »
Candles, Support at UW-Milwaukee for Terrorist Attack Victims
A report on yesterday’s gathering in support of victims of recent attacks around the globe, organized in part by the French Program. http://mediamilwaukee.com/news/candles-support-at-uw-milwaukee-for-terrorist-attack-victims… Continue Reading »