News
Join French Club!
The French Club meets every other Wednesday at 8:30pm in 231 David Lawrence Hall, and we host conversations hours on Mondays at 6pm and Thursdays at 5pm in the Global Hub at Posvar. All levels are encouraged to join! Contact pittfrenchclub@gmail.com for more information or to join the email list.
Italian Faculty and Training Modules for Text-based Language Teaching Project
Italian Faculty members Chiara Montera and Cinzia Delfini have been invited by Dr. Alberta Gatti (The Graduate Center, CUNY) to co-direct the Training Modules for Text-based Language Teaching project, one of the five projects that the Center for Integrated Language Communities (CILC) will be conducting between 2022 and 2026. CILC is one of sixteen national Language Resource Centers (LRC) housed at different universities around the country and funded by a grant by the U.S. Department of Education to improve the teaching and learning of languages nationwide.
Practice your French or Italian at our conversation groups this fall
Please join us to chat in French or Italian at our conversations clubs, open to any interested party!
Italian: Tavola Italiana, Thursdays, 12-1:30, Global Hub, Posvar Hall. Follow the group on Facebook for updates [Italianatpitt].
French: La Parlotte, Thursdays, 12:30-1:30,Schenley Plaza [outside]. [Starts on 9/15]
New Faculty Publication: Queer Cinema in Contemporary France
Congrats to Professor of French and Department Chair Todd Reeser on the publication of his new book, which treats queer film in five French directors: Jacques Martineau, Olivier Ducastel, Alain Guiraudie, Sébastien Lifshitz and Céline Sciamma.
Description of book:
Take "Intro to French-speaking Canada"!
Fort Duquesne, (North) Versailles, Erie, Dubois... Why are so many place names in western Pennsylvania French? Why do so many of the Pittsburgh Penguins speak French?
2022 Golden Lotus Award recipient: Keira Wood
We are delighted to announce this year’s Golden Lotus Award recipient, Keira Wood. Keira defines excellence in languages: she’s a major in French and Linguistics, with minors in Chinese and Quechua. Keira’s linguistic engagements demonstrate the power of French studies in a global context; her intellectual curiosity and generous presence across our seminars and classes model the kind of humanities we aspire to do.
New Course: FR0075 Global Fictions of Climate Change
Congrats to Undergraduates who are presenting their research at the 20th and 21st Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium
We want to recognize the undergraduates from Pitt and across the nation who are presenting their research at the 20th and 21st Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium, hosted by the Department of French and Italian (March 24-26, 2022):
Italian Students are Recipients of Spring 2022 Honors College Fellowships
Congratulations to Alexandra Derubeis (Political Science, Italian) and Matthew Madia (Italian, Psychology), recipients of undergraduate research fellowships awarded by the University Honors College. Alexandra’s project, “Pittsburgh's Columbus Monument and Institutions of Italian Identity” has been awarded a Chancellor’s Undergraduate Research Fellowship and will be supervised by Dr. Lina Insana.
Congratulations to French Undergraduate Research Award Recipients!
We are delighted to announce our first undergraduate award recipients of the Antoni Kosinski and Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski Endowed Research Fund in French Studies (RBK Undergraduate Research Award). Let’s give it up for Danna Corsini and Regis A. Curtis!
Congrats to Amanda Parent on Excellent Honors Thesis
Prof. Flavia Cavaliere to teach new course as Fulbright Distinguished Lecturer
We’re delighted to welcome Prof. Flavia Cavaliere of the Università di Napoli—Federico II to the Department of French & Italian during the spring 2022 term. Prof. Cavaliere, a scholar of translation in the cultural spaces between Italy and the US, will teach a “Representing Italy in English-language Media” version of ITAL 1078: Fulbright Seminar in Italian Studies, on TTh at 2:30pm.
Ugrad Research Opportunities: Spring '22
FRIT faculty are currently inviting undergraduates interested in doing research or teaching under the mentorship of a faculty member in the following areas for spring term 2022 [and beyond]:
Prof. Reeser receives Fellowship in Strasbourg
Congratulations to Dept. Chair Prof. Todd Reeser who received a USIAS fellowship at the University of Strasbourg, France, for spring term 2022.
He will be in residence in the Alsatian capital and will join a 'research team' called "SAGE" [Sociétés, Acteurs, Gouvernement en Europe].