RLL 2022-2023 Newsletter by Romance Languages

RLL NEWSLETTER OCTOBER 2023 | ISSUE NO. 4

2022-2023 DEPARTMENT OF ROMANCE LANGUAGES & LITERATURES UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO

TABLE OF CONTENTS 3 Letter from the Chair 5 Welcome: New Faces 6 Faculty Achievements & Honors 8 Publications 10 Graduate Student Achievement & Honors 11 Class of 2022-2023 13 Undergraduate Student Honors & Prizes 14 RLL Photo Contest 17 Alumni Placements 18 Snapshots: RLL Talks & Events 20 RLL Event Photos 23 Departures

LETTER FROM THE CHAIR The 2022–2023 academic year was marked by intense activity as the department and the university bounced back from the pandemic, finding students eager for social contact and engagement. The RLL community met the challenge with its characteristic creativity and energy. As in previous years, this newsletter provides a window into the dynamic life of the department and offers a moment to take stock of the varied and impressive accomplishments of our faculty, instructors, students, and alumni. The following pages highlight an immense wealth of publications, awards, grants, honors, and career milestones. While this overview cannot hope to be exhaustive, it also offers just a glimpse of the many events organized by members of RLL, from film festivals to gatherings for heritage language speakers. As Chair, I am acutely conscious of how

much work constantly goes on behind the scenes to make these successes possible, even as we carry out the ongoing, routine, but crucial work of teaching, advising, and conducting research. The daily life of the department, punctuated by the expected or unexpected hurdles of the academic year, involves incredible dedication on the part of our language program directors, section heads, undergraduate and graduate committees, search committees, reappointment and promotion committees, department staff, and others…. I lack the space here to adequately express my gratitude to all my colleagues for their tireless service to RLL, performed with conscientiousness, goodwill, and care. This year saw the successful hire of Carlos Halaburda, who will be joining the department in July 2024 as Assistant Professor in Southern Cone studies after spending a year on a European Marie Curie

LETTER FROM THE CHAIR Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Cologne. We welcome three new Assistant Instructional Professors: Étienne Labbouz (French), Andrés Nicolás Rabinovich (Spanish) and Linxi Zhang (Spanish). We were sorry to say goodbye at the end of the year to Claudia Quevedo-Webb, Assistant Instructional Professor in Spanish, and Irati de Nicolás Saiz, Assistant Instructional Professor in Basque and Spanish, who left for positions at other universities. We wish them well in their future career path. This fall once again brings a new cohort of graduate students to campus: Stephanie Beauval and Quentin Vaganay in French, Giovanni Minicucci and Belén Sánchez in HLBS, and Mattia Conti and Yuyang Zhang in Italian. February 2023 saw the departure of our Department Assistant, Emily Kort, to pursue another career opportunity. Jennifer Hurtarte and Callie Manick brought extraordinary energy and grace to keeping the Department running smoothly for the remainder of the academic year. We are grateful to the Humanities Division for supporting our hire of a new full-time Department Assistant, Erin Condon, who joined us in August. As you may have seen, we have reconfigured our space in Wieboldt 205 to better support the work of our office team. RLL is fortunate to have such a skilled group of administrators. I am constantly in awe of their organizational abilities, creative problem-solving, cheerful presence, and deep dedication to the success of the department.

I am honored to be Chair of RLL and grateful to be a member of this remarkable community. Please enjoy these snapshots of last year’s activities and achievements, and join me in looking forward to the year ahead! Alison James Department Chair & Professor of French Literature and the College

WELCOME: NEW FACES New hires 2022-2023

Étienne Labbouz Assistant Instructional Professor in French

Andrés Nicolás Rabinovich Assistant Instructional Professor in Spanish

Linxi Zhang Assistant Instructional Professor in Spanish

Erin Condon Department Assistant

FACULTY ACHIEVEMENTS & HONORS FACULTY ACHIEVEMENTS & HONORS

Noel Blanco Mourelle was awarded a 2023Larissa Brewer-García received the Flora 24 Franke Faculty Residential Fellowship. Tristán Award for the Best Book on Peru for Beyond Babel: Translations of Blackness in Céline Bordeaux and Alice McLean Colonial Peru and New Granada and the Award received a 2022-23 Chicago Center for for the Best Article by Junior Faculty in Colonial Teaching and Learning (CCTL) Exploratory Studies for “Hierarchy and Holiness in the Teaching Grant for Collaborative French Earliest Colonial Black Hagiographies: Alonso de Curriculum Redesign. Sandoval and his Sources.” Professor BrewerGarcía was also renewed for a second term at Frederick de Armas (pictured below) was a the rank of Assistant Professor. 2023 Norman Maclean Faculty Award recipient, Larissa Brewer-García, Agnes Lugo-Ortiz and Danielle Roper (in collaboration with Allyson Sergio Delgado Moya was awarded a Nadia Field and Chris Taylor) were awarded a 2023-24 Latin America Provost’s Global Neubauer Collegium Fellowship for their project Faculty Award and 2022-23 Quad Faculty on the "Visual Regimes of Enslavement and Research Grant. Their Afterlives."

Irati de Nicolás Saiz and Gerdine Ulysse Martha Feldman been named2022 the Ferdinand were each has awarded CCTL Schevill Distinguished Service Professor. Professional Development Grants.

Daisy Delogu has been appointed Faculty Arnold I. Davidson received the rank of Director of the Center for the Study of Commandeur in the Ordre des Palmes Gender and Sexuality (CSGS) for a threeacadémiques for his exceptional contribution to year term beginning July 1, 2023. teaching and promotion of French thought and culture.

Robert Morrissey has been appointed Faculty Director of the International Institute of Research in Paris (IIRP) for a four-year term beginning July 1, 2023.

Alison García James was a 2021-22 Franke Pablo Piñarawarded was a 2022 Hanson Lee Faculty Fellowship for her research project, Dulin Fellow at the Folger Shakespeare "Fragile Fictions in Contemporary France"Oskar and a Library, received a 2022 Paul 2021-22 Neubauer Collegium Fellowship, with Kristeller Fellowship from the Renaissance Françoiseof America, Lavocat (Université Sorbonne Society and was awarded a Nouvelle, France) and Akihiro Kubo (Kwansei 2023 Huntington Library Travel Grant. Gakuin University), for "Possible and Impossible Fictions." Goul Professor along with Dan Pauline was James, a Huntington Library Bertsche (France Chicago Center), was also 2023 Michael J. Connell Foundation Fellow. named Chevalier of the Ordre des Palmes Académique by the French Consul General. to Verónica Moraga was promoted

Associate Spanish.

Instructional

Professor

Frederick de Armas was named Robert O. Anderson Distinguished Service Professor. Daisy Delogu was elected to serve on the Council of the University Senate for a threeyear term. Hoda El Shakry won the Modern Language Association’s Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies for The Literary Qurʾan: Narrative Ethics in the Maghreb.

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Frederick de Armas accepted the Maclean Award alongside colleagues and several of his former students: (from left) Carolyn Nadeau, Jesús Botello (PhD‘12), Timothy Ambrose, Ryan Giles, de Armas, Keith Budner, Christopher Weimer, Felipe Rojas (PhD‘14), Bruce Burningham, Carmela Mattza (PhD’09).

FACULTY ACHIEVEMENTS & HONORS FACULTY ACHIEVEMENTS & HONORS

Nené Lozada, Lidwina van den Hout, and Larissa Brewer-García received the Flora HLBS graduate student Vianny Anaya Tristán Award for the Best Book on Peru for Amado received a 2022-23 CCTL Beyond Babel: Translations of Blackness in Exploratory Teaching Group Grant. Colonial Peru and New Granada and the Award for the Best Article by Junior Faculty in Colonial Larry Norman (pictured below) was Studies for “Hierarchy and Holiness in the awarded an honorary doctorate from Earliest Colonial Black Hagiographies: Alonso de Université Jean Monnet de Saint Etienne . Sandoval and his Sources.” Professor BrewerGarcía was also renewed for a second term at Victoria Saramago received a 2023 the rank of Assistant Professor. National Endowment for the Humanities grant. Larissa Brewer-García, Agnes Lugo-Ortiz and Danielle Roper (in collaboration with Allyson Nadia Field and Chris Taylor) were awarded a Neubauer Collegium Fellowship for their project on the "Visual Regimes of Enslavement and Their Afterlives."

Juliano Saccomani (pictured below) Martha Feldman has been named the Ferdinand received the 2023 Janel M. Mueller Award Schevill Distinguished Service Professor. for Excellence in Pedagogy. Alison James was awarded a 2021-22 aFranke Veronica Vegna was awarded 2023 Faculty Fellowship for her research project, Center for the Study of Gender and "Fragile Fictions in Contemporary France" and aa Sexuality Course Development Grant, 2021-22 NeubauerResearch Collegium Fellowship Fellowship, from with 2023 Visiting Françoise Lavocat Sorbonne Collegio Carlo Alberto(Université in Turin, and a 2023 Nouvelle, France) and Akihiro Kubo (Kwansei UC-IIRP faculty grant. Gakuin University), for "Possible and Impossible Fictions." Professor James, along with Dan Bertsche (France Chicago Center), was also named Chevalier of the Ordre des Palmes Académique by the French Consul General.

Arnold I. Davidson received the rank of Commandeur in the Ordre des Palmes académiques for his exceptional contribution to teaching and promotion of French thought and culture. Frederick de Armas was named Robert O. Anderson Distinguished Service Professor. Daisy Delogu was elected to serve on the Council of the University Senate for a threeyear term. Hoda El Shakry won the Modern Language Association’s Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies for The Literary Qurʾan: Narrative Ethics in the Maghreb.

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Pictured left to right: Nené Lozada, Juliano Saccomani, Alison James, and Ana Lima.

PUBLICATIONS

Le “concordanze delle storie”. Il modello degli antichi dall’Umanesimo all’Illuminismo By Paolo Cherchi Viella, 2023

Pagine sarde By Paolo Cherchi EDES, 2023

Conceptual Stumblings: Art in Chile, 1960s-2000s Edited by Sergio Delgado Moya, José Falconi & Maria José Delpiano Harvard University, 2023

Approaches to Teaching the Romance of the Rose Edited by Daisy Delogu & AnneHélène Miller Modern Language Association, 2023

Can Fiction Change the World? Edited by Alison James, Akihiro Kubo & Françoise Lavocat Legenda, 2023

PUBLICATIONS

Evocation d'un mémorial à Venise By Khalid Lyamlahy Présence Africaine, 2023

Italian Literature in the Nuclear Age: A Poetics of the Bystander By Maria Anna Mariani Oxford University Press, 2022

Sous le choc de l’antique. Littérature et histoire dans la France dans la première modernité By Larry Norman Hermann, 2022

El Brujo, el último juglar By Susana Inés Pérez (PhD'17) Antigona, 2023

Literature Beyond the Human: Post-Anthropocentric Brazil Edited by Victoria Saramago & Luca Bacchin Routledge, 2023

FACULTY ACHIEVEMENTS & ACHIEVEMENTS HONORS GRADUATE STUDENT & HONORS

Thomaz Amâncio: 2023-24 Provost Larissa Brewer-García received the Flora Dissertation Completion Fellowship; 2022Tristán Award for the Best Book on Peru for 23 Graduate Council Research & Personal Beyond Babel: Translations of Blackness in Development Fund; 2022-23 Humanities Colonial Peru and New Granada and the Award Division Travel Grant for the Best Article by Junior Faculty in Colonial Studies for “Hierarchy and Holiness in the Leora Baum, Miriam Borrero Robledo, Earliest Colonial Black Hagiographies: Alonso de Ryan Brown, Lou Gargouri, Léon Pradeau, Sandoval and his Sources.” Professor Brewerand Jane Vincent reached candidacy. García was also renewed for a second term at the rank of Assistant Professor. Miriam Borrero Robledo: 2023 Summer Foreign Language & Area Studies Larissa Brewer-García, Agnes Lugo-Ortiz and Fellowship Danielle Roper (in collaboration with Allyson Nadia Field and Chris Taylor) were awarded a Yuting Cai: 2023 Morton & Elizabeth Neubauer Collegium Fellowship for their project Backus Prize in French; 2023 Graduate on the "Visual Regimes of Enslavement and Global Impact Internship Their Afterlives." Laura Colaneri: 2023-24 Teaching Fellow in Arnold I. Davidson received the rank of the Humanities; 2023 Dean’s Award for Commandeur in the Ordre des Palmes Graduate Student Teaching Excellence académiques for his exceptional contribution to teaching and promotion of French thought and Beatrice Fazio: 2023-24 Franke Institute culture. for the Humanities Residential Dissertation Completion Fellowship; 2023 Wayne C. Frederick de Armas was named Robert O. Booth Graduate Student Prize for Anderson Distinguished Service Professor. Excellence in Teaching; 2023 Graduate Council Research & Personal Development Daisy Delogu was elected to serve on the Fund; 2023 Modern Language Association Council of the University Senate for a threeConvention Grant year term. Lou Gargouri: 2023-24 Humanities Division Hoda El Shakry won the Modern Language Travel Grant; 2022-23 Thomas Pavel Association’s Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize Endowment Fund Award for Comparative Literary Studies for The Literary Qurʾan: Narrative Ethics in the Maghreb.

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Etienne Grateau: 2023 Faculty Prize in Martha FrenchFeldman has been named the Ferdinand Schevill Distinguished Service Professor. Peadar Kavanagh: 2023-24 Mellon Alison James was awarded a 2021-22 Franke Foundation-University of Chicago Faculty Fellowship for her research Dissertation Completion Fellowship project, "Fragile Fictions in Contemporary France" and a 2021-22 Collegium CCTL Fellowship, with Darren Neubauer Kusar: 2023-24 Teaching Françoise Lavocat (Université Sorbonne Fellow; 2022-23 College Core Writing Tutor Nouvelle, France) and Akihiro Kubo (Kwansei Award; 2023 Fondazione Giorgio Cini Gakuin University), Research Grant for "Possible and Impossible Fictions." Professor James, along with Dan Bertsche (France Chicago Center), was also Paulina León: 2023-24 Provost Dissertation named Chevalier of the Ordre des Palmes Completion Fellowship Académique by the French Consul General. Luis Madrigal Pérez: 2023-24 Provost Dissertation Completion Fellowship; Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives 2022 George Watt Prize for best graduate essay on Spanish Civil War Alessandro Ludovico Minnucci: 2023-24 Humanities Division Travel Grant Léon Pradeau: 2023-24 École normale supérieure Exchange Student Pablo Ottonello: 2023-24 Teaching Fellow in the Humanities Ricardo Soler Rubio: 2023 Center for Latin American Studies Tinker Field Research Grant From left: Dan Bertsche, Alison James, Matías Spector: 2023-24 Vigneron and Guillaume Lacroix. Dissertation Completion Fellowship

FACULTY ACHIEVEMENTS & HONORS

Graduate

Larissa Brewer-García received the Flora Tristán Award for the Best Book on Peru for French & Francophone Studies Beyond Babel: Translations of Blackness in Maximilien Novak, “Napoléon et l’Empire Colonial Peru and New Granada and the Award des Lettres : Historiens, Journalistes, for the Best Article by Junior Faculty in Colonial informateurs, censeurs, savants. Studies for “Hierarchy and Holiness in the L’administration de l’opinion publique Earliest Colonial Black Hagiographies: Alonso de sous le Consulat et le Premier Empire Sandoval and his Sources.” Professor Brewer(1799-1814)” (honors) García was also renewed for a second term at Benjamin Ransom, “Michel de the rank of Assistant Professor. Montaigne, Skeptical Empiricism, and Seventeenth-Century Anti-Cartesian Larissa Brewer-García, Agnes Lugo-Ortiz and Literature” (honors) Danielle Roper (in collaboration with Allyson Brenna Rice, “Marie NDiaye's Nadia Field and Chris Taylor) were awarded a Maladjusted World: Strangeness and the Neubauer Collegium Fellowship for their project Limits of Empathy” on the "Visual Regimes of Enslavement and Their Afterlives." Hispanic & Luso-Brazilian Studies Isabela Fraga, “Subjected to Feeling: Arnold I. Davidson received the rank of Slavery and Personhood in NineteenthCommandeur in the Ordre des Palmes Century Brazil and Cuba” (honors) académiques for his exceptional contribution to Daniela Gutiérrez Flores, “Kitchen teaching and promotion of French thought and Selves: Cooks and the Literary Culture culture. of the Early Modern Spanish Atlantic (1520-1750)” (honors) Frederick de Armas was named Robert O. Eduardo Leão, “Alternativas al Anderson Distinguished Service Professor. apocalipsis: ficción distópica en la América Latina del siglo XXI” (honors) Daisy Delogu was elected to serve on the Enrique Macari, “Aesthetic Matters: Council of the University Senate for a threeHumanism, Literature and Education in year term. 20th-century Mexico” Hoda El Shakry won the Modern Language Italian Studies Association’s Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize Filippo Petricca, “Money and the for Comparative Literary Studies for The Literary Imagination. Medieval Paris and Literary Qurʾan: Narrative Ethics in the Maghreb. Florence (1200-1321)” (honors)

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CLASS OF 2022-23 Undergraduate Martha Feldman has been named the Ferdinand Schevill Service Professor. FrenchDistinguished & Francophone Studies Majors Justin Borella (honors) Alison James was(honors) awarded a 2021-22 Franke Peter Bound Faculty Fellowship for her research project, Caroline Cayouette "Fragile Fictions in Contemporary France" and a Alexey Nikolaev 2021-22 Neubauer Collegium Fellowship, with Madeleine Roberts-Ganim Françoise (Université Sorbonne NatashaLavocat Rodgers (honors) Nouvelle, and Akihiro Kubo (Kwansei MalkaFrance) Schreier (honors) Gakuin University), for "Possible and Impossible Donna Son (honors) Fictions." Professor James, along with Dan Yifei Wu (honors) Bertsche (France Chicago Center), was also named Chevalier Spanish Majors of the Ordre des Palmes Académique by the French Consul General. Isabel Alvarez Kameron Bloye (honors) Sheila Bolanos Gage Gramlick Esmerelda Hernandez Nick Limon Dean Matteson Kellin McGowan Dulce Nunez Hernandez Arianna Quinteros Baumanis Maggie Reyes Laura Ribeiro (honors) Jennifer Rivera Marco Antonio Sanchez Rhea Shah Alexandra Takoudis (honors) Alex Trickey Sofia Uranga Jorge Urbina From left: Dan Bertsche, Alison James, Italian Majors and Guillaume Lacroix. Carmelo De Grazia Parra Emily Feigen

FACULTY & HONORS CLASSACHIEVEMENTS OF 2022-2023

Latin American & Iberian Languages, Larissa Brewer-García received the Flora Literatures & Cultures Majors Tristán Award for the Best Book on Peru for Gabriela Perez Beyond Babel: Translations of Blackness in Julia Radhakrishnan Colonial Peru and New Granada and the Award for the Best Article by Junior Faculty in Colonial French & Francophone Studies Minors Studies for “Hierarchy and Holiness in the Eli Ameyibor Earliest Colonial Black Hagiographies: Alonso de Ruth Beaubrun Sandoval and his Sources.” Professor BrewerFatou Dioum García was also renewed for a second term at Jade Dombroski the rank of Assistant Professor. Alex Leeman Andreas Naudts Larissa Brewer-García, Agnes Lugo-Ortiz and Jo Sienche Danielle Roper (in collaboration with Allyson Josef Sperber Nadia Field and Chris Taylor) were awarded a Livia Tibuleac Neubauer Collegium Fellowship for their project Zoe Torrey on the "Visual Regimes of Enslavement and Anjali van Biesen Their Afterlives." Italian Minors Arnold I. Davidson received the rank of Carter Beckstein Commandeur in the Ordre des Palmes Lauren-Megan Botha académiques for his exceptional contribution to Jackie Oien teaching and promotion of French thought and Kavitya Sarma culture. Shaili Smith Leo Speidel Frederick de Armas was named Robert O. Anderson Distinguished Service Professor. Minors in Multiple Romance Languages, Literatures & Cultures Daisy Delogu was elected to serve on the Anna-Katia Batoum Bassong Council of the University Senate for a threeHannah Dominguez year term. Raunak Kundagrami Carmen Vanvolkenburgh Hoda El Shakry won the Modern Language Association’s Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies for The Literary Qurʾan: Narrative Ethics in the Maghreb.

Spanish Minors

Martha Feldman has been named the Ferdinand Jacklyn Anuwe Schevill Distinguished Service Professor.

Chloe Burns-Krul Max Collins Alison James was awarded a 2021-22 Franke Jennifer Cruz for her research project, Faculty Fellowship Elizabeth "Fragile Fictions Gerlach in Contemporary France" and a Richard Gillespie 2021-22 Neubauer Collegium Fellowship, with Briana Jasso Françoise Lavocat (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Seth France) Kim and Akihiro Kubo (Kwansei Gakuin University), for "Possible and Impossible Sahana Krishnamurthy Fictions." AnnaProfessor Martinez James, along with Dan Bertsche (France Chicago Center), was also Gabriel Morales named Chevalier of the Ordre des Palmes Chris Ng Académique by the French Consul General. Reilly O'Flaherty Ope Olusi John Quirk Eleanor Ricketts Julian Santesteban Thomas Song Jadyn Tiong

FACULTY ACHIEVEMENTS & HONORS UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT HONORS & PRIZES

Kristin Chang and Jorge Urbina: Quad Larissa Brewer-García received the Flora Faculty Research Grant Assistants Tristán Award for the Best Book on Peru for Beyond Babel: Translations of Blackness in Olivia Degen, Ally Gammill and Annika Colonial Peru and New Granada and the Award Lundsgaard: Foreign Language Acquisition for the Best Article by Junior Faculty in Colonial Grants Studies for “Hierarchy and Holiness in the Earliest Colonial Black Hagiographies: Alonso de John Delaloye, Kellin McGowan, and Sandoval and his Sources.” Professor BrewerGabriela Perez: Fulbright Fellowships García was also renewed for a second term at the rank of Assistant Professor. Robert Hale: Samuel T. Fleck Prize for best paper written in Italian ("PseudoLarissa Brewer-García, Agnes Lugo-Ortiz and emancipazione e sguardo maschile in Danielle Roper (in collaboration with Allyson Angela”) Nadia Field and Chris Taylor) were awarded a Neubauer Collegium Fellowship for their project Laura Ribeiro: Best Honors Thesis or Essay on the "Visual Regimes of Enslavement and in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Studies Their Afterlives." (“Días de Recordar: La historia, los palimpsestos y la responsabilidad personal Arnold I. Davidson received the rank of en La mucama de Omicunlé”) Commandeur in the Ordre des Palmes académiques for his exceptional contribution to teaching and promotion of French thought and culture.

Madeleine Roberts-Ganim and Anjali Van Martha has been named the Ferdinand Biesen:Feldman Teaching Assistant Program in Schevill Distinguished Service Professor. France (TAPIF) Grants Alison wasNeff awarded 2021-22 Franke Malka James Schreier: Prize afor Excellence in Faculty Fellowship for her research project, the Study of French Literature and Culture "Fragile Fictions in Contemporary France" and a (”Double Présence : Une analyse littéraire 2021-22 Neubauer Fellowship, des effets de Collegium l’invisibilisation sur with les Françoise Lavocat (Université Sorbonne identités d’enfants d’immigrés en France”) Nouvelle, France) and Akihiro Kubo (Kwansei Gakuin University), for "Possible and Impossible Alexandra Takoudis: Best Honors Thesis or Fictions." Professor James, along with Dan Essay in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Bertsche Chicago wasenalso Studies (France (”El papel del Center), lenguaje el named Chevalier of the Ordre des Palmes movimiento medioambiental: un análisis Académique thediscurso French Consul General. y del comparadobydel del español

inglés a través de un marco ecolinguístico”)

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FACULTY ACHIEVEMENTS & HONORS RLL PHOTO CONTEST

Martha Feldman has been named the Ferdinand Schevill Distinguished Service Professor. Alison James was awarded a 2021-22 Franke Faculty Fellowship for her research project, "Fragile Fictions in Contemporary France" and a 2021-22 Neubauer Collegium Fellowship, with Françoise Lavocat (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, France) and Akihiro Kubo (Kwansei Gakuin University), for "Possible and Impossible Fictions." Professor James, along with Dan Bertsche (France Chicago Center), was also named Chevalier of the Ordre des Palmes Académique by the French Consul General.

Arnold I. Davidson received the rank of Commandeur in the Ordre des Palmes académiques for his exceptional contribution to teaching and promotion of French thought and culture. Frederick de Armas was named Robert O. Anderson Distinguished Service Professor. Daisy Delogu was elected to 3rd serveplace, on the Kavitya Sarma Council of the University Senate for a three“Belvedere from Mount Pellegrino” year term.

(Palermo, Italy)

Hoda El Shakry won the Modern Language Association’s Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies for The Literary Qurʾan: Narrative Ethics in the Maghreb.

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FACULTY ACHIEVEMENTS & HONORS

RLL PHOTO CONTEST

Arnold I. Davidson received the rank of Commandeur in the Ordre des Palmes académiques for his exceptional contribution to teaching and promotion of French thought and culture. Frederick de Armas was named Robert O. Anderson Distinguished Service Professor. Daisy Delogu was elected serve on the 2ndtoplace, Carmelo De Grazia Parra Council of the University Senate for a three“A Dinner Overlooking Florence” year term.

(Tuscany, Italy)

Hoda El Shakry won the Modern Language Association’s Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies for The Literary Qurʾan: Narrative Ethics in the Maghreb.

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From left: Dan Bertsche, Alison James, and Guillaume Lacroix.

FACULTY ACHIEVEMENTS & HONORS RLL PHOTO CONTEST

Arnold I. Davidson received the rank of Commandeur in the Ordre des Palmes académiques for his exceptional contribution to teaching and promotion of French thought and culture. Frederick de Armas was named Robert O. Anderson Distinguished Service Professor. Daisy Delogu was elected to 1st serveplace, on theGabriela Perez Council of the University Senate for a three“Weaving Warmth: An Indigenous Woman Crafts a Dress out of year term.

Naturally Dyed Yarn” Hoda El Shakry won the Modern Language (Brazil) Association’s Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies for The Literary Qurʾan: Narrative Ethics in the Maghreb.

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From left: Dan Bertsche, Alison James, and Guillaume Lacroix.

FACULTY ACHIEVEMENTS & HONORS

Daniela Gutiérrez Flores (PhD’22): Larissa Brewer-García received the Flora Assistant Professor of Spanish, Department Tristán Award for the Best Book on Peru for of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Beyond Babel: Translations of Blackness in California, Davis. Colonial Peru and New Granada and the Award for the Best Article by Junior Faculty in Colonial Enrique Macari (PhD’22): 2023 Bridge to Studies for “Hierarchy and Holiness in the Faculty Scholar, Hispanic & Italian Studies, Earliest Colonial Black Hagiographies: Alonso de University of Illinois Chicago Sandoval and his Sources.” Professor BrewerGarcía was also renewed for a second term at Chiara Nifosi (PhD’20): Assistant Professor the rank of Assistant Professor. of French Studies, Department of Romance Literatures, University of Lisbon Larissa Brewer-García, Agnes Lugo-Ortiz and Danielle Roper (in collaboration with Allyson Maximilien Novak (PhD‘22): Lecturer in Nadia Field and Chris Taylor) were awarded a French, Department of French and Italian, Neubauer Collegium Fellowship for their project Dartmouth College on the "Visual Regimes of Enslavement and Their Afterlives." Filippo Petricca (PhD‘22): Assistant Professor, Department of French and Arnold I. Davidson received the rank of Italian, Indiana University Bloomington Commandeur in the Ordre des Palmes académiques for his exceptional contribution to Benjamin Ransom (PhD’22): teaching and promotion of French thought and Communications Specialist, Office of the culture. Provost and University Communications, University of Chicago Frederick de Armas was named Robert O. Anderson Distinguished Service Professor.

ALUMNI PLACEMENTS

Sherman Manick looks ahead to the future.

Daisy Delogu was elected to serve on the Council of the University Senate for a threeyear term. Hoda El Shakry won the Modern Language Association’s Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies for The Literary Qurʾan: Narrative Ethics in the Maghreb.

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FACULTY ACHIEVEMENTS & HONORS SNAPSHOTS: A SELECTION OF RLL TALKS & EVENTS

Pasolini’s Cultural and Political Legacy Conference | Oct. 21-22 This conference explored Pier Paolo Pasolini’s profound influence on contemporary international culture and his presence in post-colonial studies, gender studies, performance studies, cinema and the visual arts. Weird, Absurd, Menacing: The Fantastic World of Dino Buzzati Conference | Nov. 9-10 Speakers discussed Italian comics art, the nuclear threat, wonder, erotic imagery, and more as expressed in Buzzati's fascinating corpus. Dark Stairways of Desire: Lusting Beyond the Norm in Contemporary Catalan Literature | Nov. 14 Author Sebastià Portell talked about queer works in contemporary Catalan literature. Becoming Career Ready Workshop for Students in Languages and Literature | Jan. 26 Ashley Voeks (Techas Tech Univ.) shared best practices for successful career planning. Race without Race: Fugitivity and Ungendering in Donkey Skin | Feb. 1 A talk by Jennifer Row (Univ. of Minnesota) on early modern race, disability and Charles Perrault’s fairy tale.

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Crossroads in Music and Language: Arabic M Spanish | Feb. 22 and El Cafectito hosted an evening of music, poetry, and language interconnection between Arabic and Spanish featuring musician Ronnie Malley. Felipe Franco Munhoz | Mar. 23 The Brazilian author was joined in coversation by Victoria Saramago (RLL). Inventing an 'Animal' in the Laboratory: Interspecies Chimeras and the Literary Imagination | Mar. 29 RLL Postdoctoral Fellow Elizabeth Tavella (PhD’20) discussed how the literary imagination yields valuable insights into histories of institutionalized violence rooted in structural racism, sexism, and anthroparchy within the space of the laboratory. Navigating the Digital Publishing Landscape: Integrating Media, Narrative, and Technology in Multimodal Scholarship | Mar. 30 This talk by RLL PhD alum Cosette Alonso Bruhns (Univ. of Pennsylvania) focused on considerations for proposing, designing, and developing multimodal born-digital and hybrid scholarly publications.

From left: Dan Bertsche, Alison James, and Guillaume Lacroix.

FACULTY ACHIEVEMENTS & HONORS SNAPSHOTS: A SELECTION OF RLL TALKS & EVENTS

Translating Racial Categories in Latin America | Mar. 31 A conversation about Más allá de Babel. La traducción de lo negro en Perú y la Nueva Granada del siglo XVII with the author Larissa Brewer-García (RLL) and translator George Palacios (Clemson Univ.). Democracy and Defeat: Morante, Moravia and Malaparte in Capri, 1946 | Apr. 5 Franco Baldasso (Bard College) discussed how works by Elsa Morante and Alberto Moravia drew attention to Italy’s responsibility in WWII, the legacy of national defeat and of Fascist politics of exclusion. Power on Trial: Public Opinion and Political Legitimacy from the Enlightenment to the Napoleonic Era and its Modern Implications | Apr. 14-15 This colloquium explored the various ways in which the power of public opinion was created, transformed, and expressed in 18th- and early 19th-century France. Film and Capital: Serán las dueñas de la tierra (2022) | Apr. 24 A dialogue, moderated by RLL graduate student Jean Vallejo González, with director Juanma Pagán Teitelbaum and scriptwriter/producer Mariolga Reyes Cruz about land rights and documentary cinema in Puerto Rico.

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Critical Race Pedagogy for More Effective M Inclusive World Language Teaching | and May 2 Participants in this workshop with Uju Anya (Carnegie Mellon Univ.) discussed racism and inequity in the experiences of minoritized students in world language programs and learned how the theoretical framework of critical race theory facilitates a clearer understanding of these problems. An Empty Origin: Migration and Mourning in the Catalan Literature of the Argentinian Diaspora | May 3 A talk by the 2023 Joan Coromines Visiting Chair of Catalan Studies, Josep-Anton Fernàndez, (Univ. Oberta de Catalunya). Olivia Rosenthal | May 8 The French writer was joined in conversation by RLL’s Alison James and Léon Pradeau. Dante’s Sins: Emotions and Redemption in the Comedy | May 17 Roberto Rea (Univ. of Rome Tor Vergata), the 2023 Fulbright Visiting Chair of Italian Studies, spoke of the otherworldly journey of Dante as a path of atonement that reflects the moral history of the author. New Directions in Amazonian Studies | May 17-18 Scholars from various fields provided a panorama of the questions, themes, and problems that have been guiding current scholarship and cultural production on the Amazon.

FACULTY ACHIEVEMENTS RLL EVENT PHOTOS & HONORS

October 2022: Catalan students and faculty attend a screening of Alcarràs (2022), which tells the story of a family of Catalan peach farmers.

October 2022: The Champs Élysées Film Festival, which showcases French cinema, is held annually on campus.

November 2022: Students participate in a cooking class with the Italian Program. They learned how to prepare arancine, a Sicilian dish of stuffed rice balls.

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November 2022: The first ever French Heritage Learners Meet & Greet was a success! Students from France, Morocco, Senegal, and Switzerland had the opportunity to mingle.

FACULTY ACHIEVEMENTS & HONORS

Larissa Brewer-García received the Flora Tristán Award for the Best Book on Peru for Beyond Babel: Translations of Blackness in Colonial Peru and New Granada and the Award for the Best Article by Junior Faculty in Colonial Studies for “Hierarchy and Holiness in the Earliest Colonial Black Hagiographies: Alonso de Sandoval and his Sources.” Professor BrewerGarcía was also renewed for a second term at the rank of Assistant Professor. Larissa Brewer-García, Agnes Lugo-Ortiz and Danielle Roper (in collaboration with Allyson January 2023: El Cafecito celebrates Three Nadia Field and Chris Taylor) were awarded a Kings Day (El Día de los Reyes) with the Neubauer Collegium Fellowship for their project traditional sweet bread, Rosca de Reyes. on the "Visual Regimes of Enslavement and Their Afterlives." Arnold I. Davidson received the rank of Commandeur in the Ordre des Palmes académiques for his exceptional contribution to teaching and promotion of French thought and culture.

RLL EVENT PHOTOS

Martha M Feldman has been named the Ferdinand Schevill Distinguished Service Professor. Alison James was awarded a 2021-22 Franke Faculty Fellowship for her research project, "Fragile Fictions in Contemporary France" and a 2021-22 Neubauer Collegium Fellowship, with Françoise Lavocat (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, France) and Akihiro Kubo (Kwansei Gakuin University), for "Possible and Impossible Fictions." Professor James, along with Dan Bertsche (France Chicago Center), was also named Chevalier of the Ordre des Palmes February 2023: Portuguese students make Académique by the French Consul General. masks in honor of the annual Carnaval

celebrations.

Frederick de Armas was named Robert O. Anderson Distinguished Service Professor. Daisy Delogu was elected to serve on the Council of the University Senate for a threeyear term. Hoda Shakry won theembarks Modernon Language April El 2023: El Cafecito a mural Association’s Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione tour through Pilsen, a neighborhoodPrize hub for Comparative Literary Studies for The for Mexican and Latinx culture in Chicago. Literary Qurʾan: Narrative Ethics in the Maghreb.

May 2023: Graduate students and faculty mingle at the end-of-year reception. From left: Dan Bertsche, Alison James, and Guillaume Lacroix.

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FACULTY ACHIEVEMENTS RLL EVENT PHOTOS & HONORS

Larissa Brewer-García received the Flora Tristán Award for the Best Book on Peru for Beyond Babel: Translations of Blackness in Colonial Peru and New Granada and the Award for the Best Article by Junior Faculty in Colonial Studies for “Hierarchy and Holiness in the Earliest Colonial Black Hagiographies: Alonso de Sandoval and his Sources.” Professor BrewerGarcía was also renewed for a second term at the rank of Assistant Professor. Larissa Brewer-García, Agnes Lugo-Ortiz and Danielle Roper (in collaboration with Allyson May 2023: RLL language programs and Nadia Field and Chris Taylor) were awarded a Global Studies organized a picnic and Neubauer Collegium Fellowship for their project volleyball game. on the "Visual Regimes of Enslavement and Their Afterlives." Arnold I. Davidson received the rank of Commandeur in the Ordre des Palmes académiques for his exceptional contribution to teaching and promotion of French thought and culture.

Martha Feldman has been named the Ferdinand M Schevill Distinguished Service Professor. Alison James was awarded a 2021-22 Franke Faculty Fellowship for her research project, "Fragile Fictions in Contemporary France" and a 2021-22 Neubauer Collegium Fellowship, with Françoise Lavocat (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, France) and Akihiro Kubo (Kwansei Gakuin University), for "Possible and Impossible Fictions." Professor James, along with Dan Bertsche (France Chicago Center), was also named Chevalier of thegather Ordreat des Palmes May 2023: Instructors the end-ofAcadémique by the French Consul General. year luncheon.

Frederick de Armas was named Robert O. Anderson Distinguished Service Professor. Daisy Delogu was elected to serve on the Council of the University Senate for a threeyear term. Hoda El Shakry won and the Modern Language May 2023: Students faculty mingle at Association’s Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize the end-of-year awards ceremony for for Comparative Literary Studies for The undergraduates. Literary Qurʾan: Narrative Ethics in the Maghreb.

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June 2023: The Kreyòl Club gathers for a screening of Madan Sara (2021), which From left: Dan Alison explores theBertsche, powerful roleJames, of women in and Guillaume Lacroix. Haiti’s economy.

DEPARTURES

Irati de Nicolás Saiz Assistant Instructional Professor in Basque & Spanish

Emily Kort Department Assistant

Claudia Quevedo-Webb Assistant Instructional Professor in Spanish

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