Pap NDiaye in conversation with Professor Michael C. Dawson

“The Minority Paradox: Blackness in France”,  Pap NDiaye in conversation with Professor Michael C. Dawson 11/10/2016 – 6:30PM Curtin Hall 209 A lecture by, and conversation with, Pap NDiaye, Author and Professor at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris. Post-lecture discussion will be …

Bake Sale in support of Haitian community devastated by Hurricane Matthew

THURSDAY OCT 20: 12:30pm-2pm — UWM Student Union Atrium  BAKE SALE to SUPPORT HAITIAN COMMUNITY DEVASTATED BY HURRICANE MATTHEW The Department of French, Italian, and Comparative Literature (FICL) and the students’ French club; the Center for International Education; and the …

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 fellow …

Congratulations to Peter Paik and Kristin Pitt on their recent publications

Congratulations to Peter Y. Paik, associate professor of comparative literature, whose article “The Death of Horror: On Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Cure” was published in Situations: Cultural Studies in the Asian Context, vol. 9, no. 2, 2016. The essay, which appears in a special volume …