In September 2022, Maya Angela Smith, associate professor of French studies, joined the leadership of the UW College of Arts & Sciences in the newly created position of associate dean for equity, justice and inclusion [ADEJI]. Read… Read more
Assistant Professor Hannah Frydman has won the Larry Schehr Memorial Award for the best essay at the Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium by an untenured PhD within the first six years since receiving the degree for her essay, “Confidences épistolaires… Read more
We are happy to welcome Assistant Teaching Professor of French & Italian, Irina Markina this fall to the University of Washington and the Department of French & Italian Studies!
Professor Markina comes to UW from Princeton University, where she earned an MA (2016) followed by a PhD in French Studies (2022). There she taught a range of French courses and… Read more
Did you know that French & Italian Studies is home to the Textual Studies Program? In 2021, the Textual Studies Program (TXTDS) launched a new undergraduate minor in Textual Studies & Digital Humanities. Students can explore how texts — from scrolls, manuscripts, and printed books to archival documents, digital texts, and textual data — have been written, published, read, circulated, and archived from antiquity to today. Courses include hands-on work with historical texts… Read more
After a hiatus, the student run French and Italian Club are holding in person meetings again! All UW students are welcome to participate club meetings and activities. Students do not need to be in French or Italian courses or to have advanced language proficiency to participate. Please see the details below and join the French and Italian Clubs to meet fellow Francophiles and Italophiles and practice your language skills.
The Italian Club kicked off autumn quarter by holding an Italian style… Read more
Associate Professor of French Richard Watts is featured in the first episode of the new Podcast "Going Public: Reimagining the PhD" offered by the Simpson Center for the Humanities . Professor Watts speaks with Annie Dwyer Assistant Program Director of a Mellon initiative on activating the risk of failure and explores the role of failure in publicly engaged scholarship and teaching, the imperatives of departmental transformation, and, of course, translation as a public… Read more
Guest Lecture : Education and the Metaverse with Judith Okonkwo (October 10th, 2022)
Judith Okonkwo is a business psychologist and technology evangelist, based in Nigeria. She is a current resident of San Francisco French Consulate's Villa Albertine and the creator of the Oriki Coaching Model™ and a co-founder of We Will Lead Africa. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and is a Member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council for Virtual and Augmented Reality. In 2016, Judith… Read more