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 UWM’s French Program!

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 : A …

Congratulations, 2016 RASCL award winners!

Congratulations to Rebecca Schnirman and Hunter Resler, Comparative Literature majors and the 2016 recipients of the Roy Arthur Swanson Merit Scholarship in Comparative Literature! Well done, both of you–you make us proud!

Congratulations, 2016 RASCL award winners!

Congratulations to Rebecca Schnirman and Hunter Resler, Comparative Literature majors and the 2016 recipients of the Roy Arthur Swanson Merit Scholarship in Comparative Literature! Well done, both of you–you make us proud!

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 …

A Conversation with Joséphine Bacon

Joséphine Bacon is a member of the First Nations in Canada and shares her experiences growing up in the Innu society as they made the change from traditional lifeways into the more sedentary life of reservation living. She shares her experiences through …

UWM Land Acknowledgement: We acknowledge in Milwaukee that we are on traditional Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk and Menominee homeland along the southwest shores of Michigami, North America’s largest system of freshwater lakes, where the Milwaukee, Menominee and Kinnickinnic rivers meet and the people of Wisconsin’s sovereign Anishinaabe, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Oneida and Mohican nations remain present.   |   To learn more, visit the Electa Quinney Institute website.