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Discover the political and social evolutions of France, Dante’s Divine Comedy, the relationship between language and cultural identity, human and machine translation, and the cultural history of Italy and the Francophone world.

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Featured Course

FRENCH 590 A: Translation: Practice, Identity, Power

Spring 2025

A multilingual graduate seminar that explores theories of translation practice, the articulation of identity in translation, and translation and its relation to fields of power.

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Fourth Annual French & Italian Studies Academic Awards Winners!

We are very pleased to announce the winners of the fourth annual French & Italian Studies Academic Awards! All students who have enrolled in a French & Italian Studies course during the 2023-2024 academic year were eligible to submit a final project completed in a FIS course.