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 …
Each year the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) offers multiple scholarships and travel awards to advanced undergraduates and graduate students at UWM that may be of interest to students of both Comparative Literature and French. This spring, …
When we think Mafia literature many of us probably think of The Godfather by Mario Puzo, and the three popular movies based on the book. But Robin Pickering-Iazzi, UWM professor of Italian and Comparative Literature, has a different perspective. In researching her new book, The …
Italian professor Robin Pickering-Iazzi will be presenting her newest book, The Mafia in Italian Lives and Literature: Life Sentences and their Geographies, on Wednesday, February 17, at 7:00 PM at Boswell Book Company. Please join Robin Pickering-Iazzi for a lively talk and discussion …
Our own Italian Professor Robin Pickering-Iazzi talks about her new book The Mafia in Italian Lives and Literature: Life Sentences and Their Geographies. Her book explores how “the works of fiction, non-fiction, online social engagement, and practices performed by large numbers of …
Asking the question, “What did the Bible mean?” has engaged the discipline of historical-literary analysis. Asking the question, “What does the Bible mean?” has engaged the discipline of theology and historical-theological biblical exegesis. However, asking the question, “What might the …
Prof. Robin Pickering-Iazzi’s newest book, The Mafia in Italian Lives and Literature: Life Sentences and Their Geographies (University of Toronto Press, 2015), explores perceptions of the Mafia in Italian fiction and non-fiction. Read more about it here.
Dr. Rachel Skalitzky, associate professor emerita of Comparative Literature and former chair of the Department of French, Italian, and Comparative Literature, was posthumously named an Earnest Spaights Plaza Honoree at the 2015 Fall Awards Ceremony on October 20, 2015.
We’re delighted to announce that a new 5-year Integrated BA/MA Degree program in French and Translation has been approved, effective immediately! Through this program, students can earn a BA in French in three years and an MA in Language, Literature, and Translation (MALLT-Translation Concentration) …
This Monday afternoon November 16th at 4pm (at UWM’s Spaights Plaza)There will be a gathering in remembrance of those we have lost to the recent terrorist attacks in Paris, Beirut, Egypt, Tunisia and Syria. Please join us in reflection and solidarityIn Spaights Plaza …