2023-2024 RLL Newsletter

LETTER FROM THE CHAIR

The 2023–2024 academic year saw exceptional achievements by members of RLL Our faculty and instructors published numerous books, earned well-deserved promotions and reappointments, and received prestigious fellowships, grants, teaching awards, and recognition for both scholarly and creative work Our graduate students won prizes for teaching and course design, Dissertation Completion Fellowships, and Teaching Fellowships in the Humanities. Our talented undergraduate majors and minors also earned major awards, including the Fulbright My annual review of this record of accomplishments leaves me in awe I extend my gratitude to each member of the department faculty, instructors, staff, and students—for your invaluable contributions to RLL It is a pleasure to work with all of you, and a privilege to serve as your Chair

A special word of appreciation must go to RLL’s outstanding administrative team. Jennifer Hurtarte, Callie Manick, and Erin Condon have not only managed the dayto-day running of the department, but have also demonstrated exceptional dedication, embraced innovative approaches to tracking enrollments, promoted the visibility of our programs, and fostered a sense of community. Our successes would not be possible without their efforts

Looking ahead to the new academic year, we are excited to welcome two new junior faculty members to campus: Carlos Halaburda, Assistant Professor of Latin American Literature, who is a specialist in nineteenth-century Southern Cone cultural production, and Nikhita Obeegadoo, Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies, who focuses on contemporary Francophone and world literature Their expertise extends the global and interdisciplinary scope of the department’s work.

LETTER FROM THE CHAIR

We also welcome three new Assistant Instructional Professors: Eduardo Leão, recently a Teaching Fellow in the Humanities, will continue his contributions to the Spanish language program; Megan Marshall, joining us from the University of Illinois Chicago, will oversee our heritage language program in Spanish; and Ariane Echenique Calleja will teach both Basque and Spanish

This fall once again brings a new cohort of graduate students to campus: Eve Glasergreen, Lamine Niang and Sydney Schoenfield in French; Gabriela Beduschi Zanfelice, Andrea Mendoza Meléndez, Julio Mestanza and Sara Rodriguez in HLBS, and Giovanni Fumagalli in Italian

This is also a bittersweet moment marked by several departures and retirements from the department, but I am confident that our talented team of instructors will navigate these changes with thoughtfulness and creativity.

Please enjoy this overview of last year’s highlights, join me in looking forward to the year ahead, and stay tuned for future department news!

Alison James Department Chair and Professor of French Literature

Ariane Echenique Calleja

Assistant Instructional Professor in Basque and Spanish

Carlos Halaburda

Assistant Professor of Latin American Literature

Megan Marshall

Assistant Instructional Professor in Spanish

Eduardo Leão

Assistant Instructional Professor in Spanish

WELCOME: NEW FACES

New hires 2023-24

Assistant Instructional Professor in Spanish

Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies

Megan Marshall

Nikhita Obeegadoo

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.

Niall Atkinson and his collaborators were awarded a 2024 National Endowment for the Humanities Grant for their “Florence Illuminated: Visualizing the History of Art, Architecture, and Society” project

Larissa Brewer-García received a threeyear Ivy+ Mellon Leadership Fellowship. She was also awarded the Franklin Pease G.Y. Prize for Best Article Published in the Colonial Latin American Review in 2021 and 2022 Another article received honorable mention for the Latin American Studies Association’s Triennial Award for Best Article in Colonial Latin American Studies by a Senior Scholar.

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."

Federica Caneparo accepted a new position as Research Associate Professor.

Martha Feldman has been named the Ferdinand Schevill Distinguished Service Professor

Alison James was awarded a UChicago International Institute of Research in Paris Faculty Grant.

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

Georgy Khabarovskiy and Nicolas Portugal received a South Atlantic Modern Language Association Amos Distinguished Chair Award.

Ana Lima was named the 2023 Higher Education Professor of the Year by the American Organization of Teachers of Portuguese. She also received an Exploratory Teaching Group Grant from the Chicago Center for Teaching and Learning.

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

Pauline Goul was a 2024-25 Franke Faculty Residential Fellowship recipient.

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At the 2024 Prix des cinq continents de la Francophonie awards ceremony, Khalid Lyamlahy is recognized with a special mention by the jury.

Khalid Lyamlahy was a Visiting Fellow at Exeter College, University of Oxford in the final term of 2024. His novel, Évocation d’un mémorial à Venise, was a finalist for the 2023 Prix Alain Spiess, 2024 Prix des cinq continents de la Francophonie (received special mention by the jury), and 2024 Prix Jésus Paradis (received special mention). It was also the winner of the 2024 Prix Ethiophile.

Maria Anna Mariani was promoted to the rank of Associate Professor with tenure Her book, Italian Literature in the Nuclear Age: A Poetics of the Bystander, won the Modern Language Association’s Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Italian Studies. She also received a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend

FACULTY ACHIEVEMENTS & HONORS

Verónica Moraga and Diana Palenzuela Rodrigo were awarded a Language Pedagogy Innovation Initiative Grant from the Chicago Language Center (CLC).

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.

Noémie Ndiaye’s book, Scripts of Blackness: Early Modern Performance Culture and the Making of Race, won numerous awards, including the George Freedley Memorial Award, the Bevington Award, the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize, the Shakespeare’s Globe Book Award, the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies, and the Shakespeare Association of America First Book Award.

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 projec on the "Visual Regimes of Enslavement and Their Afterlives."

Larry Norman received grants from the UChicago International Institute of Research in Paris and the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research.

Arnold I. Davidson received the rank o Commandeur in the Ordre des Palme académiques for his exceptional contribution to teaching and promotion of French thought and culture.

Diana Palenzuela Rodrigo was promoted to Associate Instructional Professor

Frederick de Armas was named Robert O Anderson Distinguished Service Professor.

Alan Parma received a 2024 Glenn and Claire Swogger Award for Exemplary Classroom Teaching. He was also awarded a CLC Language Pedagogy Innovation Initiative Grant

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 Th Literary Qurʾ an: Narrative Ethics in the Maghreb.

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

Thomas Pavel was awarded the 2023 Grand Prix de la Francophonie by the Académie Français.

Victoria Saramago was a 2024 Franke Faculty Grant recipient

Jennifer Scappettone was a Wallace Fellow at Villa I Tatti, the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, in September-December 2023

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

Alan Parma accepts the Swogger Award for Exemplary Classroom Teaching

Guardians of Discourse: Journalism and Literature in Porfirian Mexico

By Kevin Anzzolin (PhD’14) University of Nebraska Press, 2024

Scampoli di ricerche critiche su Petrarca e la sua fortuna

By Paolo Cherchi

UNICApress, 2023

Erranze libridinose: Ricerche erudite su testi rari e dimenticati

By Paolo Cherchi

UNICApress, 2023

Le Pouvoir en procès. Opinion publique et légitimité politique des Lumières au Premier Empire

Edited by Ryan Brown and Maximilien Novak (PhD’22) Classiques Garnier, 2024

Sfarfallate dantesche

By Paolo Cherchi

Angelo Longo Editore, 2023

Bodies beyond Labels: Finding Joy in the Shadows of Imperial Spain

Edited by Frederick de Armas and Daniel Holcombe UToronto Press, 2024

Écrire le quotidien aujourd’hui

Edited by Alison James, Corinne Grenouillet, and Maryline Heck Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2024

Montaigne politique

Edited by Philippe Desan Classiques Garnier, 2023

Spheres of Insurrection: Notes on Decolonizing the Unconscious Translated by Sergio Delgado Moya (written by Suely Rolnik) Polity, 2023

The Routledge Handbook of Fiction and Belief

Edited by Alison James, Akihiro Kubo, and Françoise Lavocat Routledge, 2023

Amore innamorato et impazzato

Edited by Armando Maggi (written by Lucrezia Marinella) Angelo Longo Editore, 2023

Seeing Race Before Race: Visual Culture and the Racial Matrix in the Premodern World

Edited by Noémie Ndiaye and Lia Markey ACMRS Press, 2023

Las líneas del frente. La escritura de los soldados en la Edad Moderna

By Miguel Martínez Casa del Libro, 2024

A Cara do Brasil: Português para estrangeiros

By Ana Flávia Boeing Marcelino, Naiara Sales Araújo, and Monica Panigassi Vicentini

Editora da Universidade Federal do Maranhão, 2023

Napoléon et l'Empire des Lettres

By Maximilien Novak (PhD’22)

Presses universitaires de France, 2023

Che cos’è la non fiction

By Raffaello Palumbo Mosca (PhD’11) Carocci Editore, 2023

Tinc gana

By Bel Olid and Eider Eibar Pol·len edicions, 2023

Mala fama

By Bel Olid and Naida Mazzenga Combel Editorial, 2024

Nim i Blau

By Bel Olid and Alba Domingo Pol·len edicions, 2023

Match

By Pablo Ottonello (PhD’23) Vinilo Editora, 2023

snow of snow

By Léon Pradeau

Bottlecap Press, 2024

vaisseau instantané / instant shipping

By Léon Pradeau

Bottlecap Press, 2024

Gabriele D’Annunzio and World Literature: Multilingualism, Translation, Reception

Handbook of Latin American Environmental Aesthetics

Edited by Victoria Saramago, Jens Andermann, and Gabriel Giorgi De Gruyter, 2023

Aesthetics, science and faith: 400 years of the exploration of the Ambrosian library

La mente inquieta. Saggio sull'Umanesimo

Edited by Michael Subialka (PhD’12) and Elisa Segnini

Edinburgh University Press, 2023

Translated by Yuyang Zhang and Wen Zheng (written by Pier Francesco Fumagalli) 2023

Translated by Yuyang Zhang and Zhang Yi (written by Massimo Cacciari) 2023

ACHIEVEMENTS & HONORS

GRADUATE STUDENT ACHIEVEMENTS & HONORS

Thomaz Amâncio: 2024-25 Teaching Fellow in the Humanities

Vianny Anaya Amado, Enya Calibuso, Alessandro Ludovico Minnucci, Caterina Nicodemo, Andrea Reed-Leal, Jean Vallejo González: reached candidacy

Lizette Arellano: 2024-25 Vigneron Dissertation Completion Fellowship

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.

Stephanie Beauval: 2023-24 Faculty Prize in French

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

Paulina León: Society for Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Poetry’s Third Founders Prize for Best Graduate Student Paper

Kirsten Lopez: 2023-24 Academic Engagement Fellow, Feitler Center for Academic Inquiry, Smart Museum of Art

Luis Madrigal Pérez: 2024-25 Teaching Fellow in the Humanities

Laura Colaneri: 2024 Dean’s Distinguished Dissertation Award

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."

Beatrice Fazio: 2024-25 Teaching Fellow in the Humanities

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.

Khouloud Gargouri: 2024 Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality Research/Travel Grant; 2024-25 Pozen Human Rights Doctoral Fellow

Etienne Grateau: 2024 François Furet Travel Grant

Frederick de Armas was named Robert O. Anderson Distinguished Service Professor.

Peadar Kavanagh: 2024-25 Teaching Fellow in the Humanities

Daisy Delogu was elected to serve on the Council of the University Senate for a threeyear term.

Darren Kusar: 2023 Fondazione Giorgio Cini Research Grant; 2024-25 Teaching Fellow in the Humanities

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

Loriane Lafont: 2024-25 Mellon Foundation-University of Chicago Dissertation Completion Fellowship; MLA Delegate Assembly member

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.

Alessandro Ludovico Minnucci: 2024 American Association for Italian Studies Graduate Student Travel Award

Caterina Nicodemo: 2024 American Boccaccio Association Giuseppe Velli Graduate Prize

Léon Pradeau: 2023-24 Thomas Pavel Endowment Fund Award

Andrea Reed-Leal: 2024 Wayne C Booth Graduate Student Prize for Excellence in Teaching; 2024 Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality Course Design Prize for Graduate Instructors; 2024 Vicent Peset Llorca Fellowship for Research at the Library and Museum of the López Piñero Interuniversity Institute, Universitat de Valencia; 2024-2025 Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture Research/Travel Grant

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

Belén Sánchez: 2023-24 Center for Latin American Studies Tinker Field Research Grant

GRADUATE

STUDENT ACHIEVEMENTS & HONORS

Matías Spector: 2024-25 Teaching Fellow in the Humanities

Fara Taddei: 2023-24 Rebecca West

Dissertation Grant; 2024 American Boccaccio Association Travel Grant; 202425 Franke Institute for the Humanities NonResidential Dissertation Completion Fellowship; 2024-25 Humanities Division Dissertation Research Travel Grant

Quentin Vaganay: 2023-24 Morton and Elizabeth Backus Prize in French

Yuyang Zhang: 2023-24 Dean’s Student Advisory Board Representative

ALUMNI UPDATES & PLACEMENTS

Paulina León receives the Society for Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Poetry’s Third Founders Prize for Best Graduate Student Paper

Eufemia Baldassarre (PhD’23) is Associate Director of Career Services at Carnegie Mellon University’s Master of Science in Computational Finance program.

Eduardo Leão (PhD’22) is joining RLL as Assistant Instructional Professor in Spanish

Maximilien Novak (PhD’22) was awarded the Prix de la Fondation Tilsit-Institut de France pour la Diplomatie 2024 for his research on the history of French diplomacy under Napoleon

Brenna Rice (PhD’22) accepted a position as Assistant Director of Academic Operations and Graduate Programs, School of Literatures, Cultural Studies and Linguistics at the University of Illinois Chicago.

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

CLASS OF 2023-24

Graduate

French & Francophone Studies

Undergraduate

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

French & Francophone Studies Majors

Kirsten Lopez: "Words to Remember: Crafting Epitaphic Environments in Medieval and Contemporary Commemorative Art” (honors)

Hispanic & Luso-Brazilian Studies

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.

Laura Colaneri: "The Sinister Southern Cone: Mood, Affect, and Horror in the Cultural Imaginary of Argentine and Brazilian State Terror" (honors)

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."

Pablo Ottonello: "Sinfonía de lo cotidiano: la pose de fracaso en los diarios de Levrero, Piglia y Pizarnik"

Italian Studies

Arnold I. Davidson received the rank of

Eufemia Baldassarre: "Landscapes of E il (S lf) P t l f Di l t

Gabrielle Dalton

Christine Dongo

Mariam Esber

Phoebe Holz

Daisy Maslan (honors)

Sarah Muhlbaum

Jack Read

Lauren Rooney (honors)

Italian Majors

Themis Frigo

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.

Latin American & Iberian Languages, Literatures & Cultures Majors

Matthew Bruges

Miller Dunbar (honors)

Laura Colaneri is pictured at convocation alongside HLBS faculty members Victoria Saramago (left) and Agnes Lugo-Ortiz

Spanish Majors

Enmanuel Acosta Aparicio

Alai Araujo-Elorza

Corinne Chiles

Olivia Degen

Greg García

Marcela Madrid Serna

Tunmise Ogungbesan

Marissa Powe

Erika Romero

Mónica Ruiz

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

FACULTY ACHIEVEMENTS & HONORS

Two or More Romance Languages, Literatures and Cultures Majors

Nico Emmanuel-Henderson (honors)

Annika Lundsgaard (honors)

Annaliese Vorhees

French & Francophone Studies Minors

Angélique Alexos

Peter Berryman

Christian Bird

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.

Jordyn Bourne

Sonny Moskowitz

Julia Stefanska

Italian Minors

Alec Abramson

Walker Byrd

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."

Nati Giustini

Ruofan Zhao

Portuguese Minors

Gabriel Reyes Esclasans

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.

Minors in Multiple Romance Languages, Literatures & Cultures

Frederick de Armas was named Robert O. Anderson Distinguished Service Professor.

Basil Egli

Natalia Esparza-Mendoza

Quinn Rodriguez

Alex Rubio

Irina Stamm

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 Qurʾ an: Narrative Ethics in the Maghreb.

Spanish Minors

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

Alejandra Bergquist

Isabela Cacho-Sousa

Page Cassidy

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.

Gabriel Clisham

Lucas Cortinez

Isabella DeVine

Lucy Groothuis

A’Nya Harrison

Virginia Juarbe

Hannah Maidman

Sam Marks

Juliana Mothersbaugh

Adesuwa Obasuyi

Sabine Salnave

Steven Schmidt

FACULTY ACHIEVEMENTS & HONORS

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT HONORS & PRIZES

Walker Byrd: 2023-24 Samuel T. Fleck Prize for best paper written in Italian ("La sperimentazione di Petrarca sui dialoghi”)

Phoebe Holz: 2023-24 Student Marshal

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

Lucas Cortinez, Miller Dunbar, Nico Emmanuel-Henderson, Greg Garcia, Daisy Maslan, Monica Ruiz House, Sarah

Muhlbaum, Irina Stamm, Annaliese Vorhees: Global 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.

Ben DeMott, Lia Guerrero, Natalie Earl, Charles Hendon, Aj Palacios: 2024 Foreign Language Acquisition Grant for Summer International Travel

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."

Miller Dunbar: 2023-24 Best Honors Thesis or Essay in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Studies (“El sólido pedestal del dinero: temas socioeconómicas en Nada de Carmen Laforet”)

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

for Comparative Literary Studies for The Literary Qurʾ an: Narrative Ethics in the Maghreb.

Daisy Maslan: 2023-24 Theodore Lee Neff Prize for Excellence in the Study of French Literature and Culture (“Les gens des petits métiers et la ville de Paris dans Les Français peints par eux-mêmes : L’art, le travail et la rue dans les années 1840”); 2023-24 Joyce Z. and Jacob Greenberg Center for Jewish Studies BA Prize; 2024 Fulbright U.S. Student Program

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.

Sarah Muhlbaum: 2023-24 Quad Undergraduate Research Scholar; 2024 Fulbright U.S. Student Program Alternate

Mónica Ruiz: 2023-24 Student Marshal; 2023-24 Perry S Herst Prize; 2023-24 Davis Projects for Peace Grantee; 2024 Hugo F. Sonnenschein Medal of Excellence

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1st Place, Paul Hosemann

“Sunlight filtering into La Rambla in Barcelona” (Barcelona, Spain)

SNAPSHOTS: A SELECTION OF RLL TALKS & EVENTS

Virgilio Lecture Series | Oct. 24, 27 & 31:

Adriana Cavarero (Univ. degli studi di Verona) gave a series of talks on “Women and Monsters: the uncanny of maternity in literary imagination ”

Haitian and Kreyòl Open House | Nov. 15

Attendees learned about the largest Creole-speaking community in the world, and about Haitian languages, cinema, music, and dance

The persistence of national issues. State, territoriality and plurinationality from Latin America to Spain | Dec. 1

Xavier Domènech (Univ. Autónoma de Barcelona) addressed the various explanations for the plurinational reality of Spain, and the influences that plurinational developments in Latin America have had on the Spanish debate itself.

Early Careers for the Languages | Feb. 1

Recent RLL undergraduate alumni Sal Salamanca, Anna-Katia Batoum Bassong, and Abbie Reeves shared how learning a second language helped them in their early careers.

Reading Consent: The French Canon Through the Female Gaze | Feb. 29

A conversation with Jennifer Tamas (Rutgers Univ.) about her book, Au NON des femmes: libérer nos classiques du regard masculin, and about consent, feminism and the classics

De libros, editoriales y otros males | Mar. 27, Apr. 10 & 17

MAt this workshop series, Jaume Subirana, (Univ. Pompeu Fabra), Amaia Elizalde Estenaga (Univ del País Vasco), and Javier Aparicio Maydeu (Univ Pompeu Fabra) explored the social function of literature, censorship in the publishing industry, and the role of the author in the international literary market.

The Spell of the Voice: Perspectives on Italian Literature and Culture | Apr. 12 & 13

This graduate conference examined questions of orality and vocality within the Italian context.

A língua portuguesa brasileira e influências de línguas africanas | Apr. 29

Esmeralda Negrão (Univ. de São Paulo) spoke about the influence of other languages on Brazilian Portuguese.

“Means Without End': Of Montaigne’s Essays, the Radical Grotesque, and Anachronic Posthumanism | May 2

Chad Córdova (Emory Univ.) delineated a reading of Michel de Montaigne's Essays in view of their potential for nurturing posthumanist thought, ethics, and politics

Border Mediascapes | May 8

A talk by Francesco Zucconi (Univ. Iuav di Venezia) about documentary films shot in border areas during the so-called European Migrant Crisis

September 2023: Instructo orientation and took pa scavenger hunt, which instructors get acquainted w

festival Candlemas (February 2), French students learned how to make crepes yum!

April 2024: Members of the Kreyòl Club and Gerdine Ulysse met the Haitian Consul General, Mr. Youri Emmanuel, at the the Haitian Consulate of Chicago.

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."

April 2024: At the second annual Heritage Spanish Speakers dinner, students took a moment to express their appreciation for Lidwina van den Hout, who would retire later in 2024

Arnold I Davidson received the rank of

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

April 2024: El Cafecito traveled to Humboldt Park for a walking tour of the Paseo Boricua neighborhood, a hub of Puerto Rican culture in Chicago.

named Chevalier of the Ordre des Palmes Académique by the French Consul General.

April 2024: Graduate students hosted “The Spell of the Voice: Perspectives on Italian Literature and Culture” conference, which featured Prof Martha Feldman as the keynote speaker