Congratulations to Rania Chalhoub. She graduates this August with a MA from the MALLT program, with a concentration in French and Francophone Language, Literature and Culture. She is looking forward to continuing to teach and pursuing a PhD in world …
Congratulations to Rhoda Torto. She graduates this August with a MA in French and Francophone Language, Literature and Culture and she has been accepted to start her PhD studies in Francophone literatures at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in Fall 2021.
French at UWM is a community partner on three films in this year’s MFF: Call Me Human (Canada / 2020 / 78 min / French, Innu-aimun with English subtitles); Downstream to Kinshasa (Democratic Republic of Congo, France, Belgium / 2020 / 90 min / …
In the windows of the UWM Library by the Grind: Bruce Clark’s Upright Men – a woman, a child, a man -stand tall and upright, to honour and dignify the survivors and victims of the 100 days genocide in Rwanda that started …
Monday March 15, 2021 – 3pm A virtual conversation with Franco-Ivorian author Véronique Tadjo about In the company of Men — a fictional work addressing the 2014-2016 Ebola outbreak in West Africa — just out in an English translation by the …
Please encourage students and colleagues to link in to a conversation in French about the history and routes of Malagasy enslavement crisscrossing the Indian and Atlantic Oceans, east and west, south and north along the coasts of Africa and the …
The 24th Festival of Films in French is rolling out as a pandemic-safe event this February. It is a mini festival — to be sure — with 5 feature-length films and a short available for streaming from the currently virtual …
Congratulations to Prof. Sarah Davies Cordova on the coordination and publication of the dossier “Ina Césaire revisitée” Présence Africaine : Revue culturelle du monde noir …
It is with heavy hearts that the Comparative Literature Program shares news of the passing of Roy A Swanson, who was a professor of comparative literature at UWM from 1967-2003. Dr. Swanson was a beloved professor, an admired colleague, and …
Congratulations to Sayila Edmé First graduate of MALLT’s Accelerated MA program in French. She graduates this December with a BA in French and a MA in French and Francophone Language, Literature and Culture in 5 years.