UWM’s Commitment to Inclusiveness

The Department of French, Italian, and Comparative Literature welcomes and endorses Chancellor Mark A. Mone’s statement of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s deep commitment to inclusiveness and to our guiding values, including diversity in all of its definitions and to a caring, compassionate, …

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 …

French Films Spread Joie de Vivre

We are so proud to have organized and hosted the Festival of Films in French for the last 19 years and can’t wait for the 20th anniversary Festival, coming this February!

Sarah Davies Cordova’s new co-edited volume on Veronique Tadjo

Sarah Davies Cordova and Désiré Wa Kabwe-Segatti are the co-editors of the new volume Écrire, traduire, peindre–Véronique Tadjo–Writing, Translating, Painting, just released by Présence Africaine in Paris. Prof. Davies Cordova co-authored the introduction to the volume, “Introduction : Sarah Davies Cordova & Désiré Wa Kabwe-Segatti …. en conversation avec Véronique Tadjo.” …

Christiane Taubira accepts honorary doctorate from UWM

Former French Minister of Justice and Keeper of the Seals Christiane Taubira received an Honorary Doctorate in Laws and Human Rights at UWM on Jan. 30, 2016. Watch the video of her acceptance speech and download the transcript, in French or …

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 student in French …

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 student in French …