Research

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Geoffrey Turnovsky Featured in The History of Literature Podcast
(October 21, 2024)
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Professor Richard Watts and Team Awarded 2024-2025 UW EarthLab Innovation Grant 
(October 10, 2024)
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Hannah Frydman Awarded the Bailey Prize by The New York State Association of European Historians
(November 8, 2023)
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Professor Irina Markina's Third Republic Parisian Mural Research Project Funded by RRF
(June 22, 2023)
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Hannah Frydman Awarded 2023 ACLS Fellowship
(April 7, 2023)
Emma Delpre
Alumni Update: Emma Delapré 
(March 13, 2023)
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Third Annual French & Italian Studies Academic Awards!
(February 15, 2023)
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 Professor Louisa Mackenzie gives Keynote Address at the Early Modern French Studies Conference
(January 31, 2023)
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Annual UW Undergraduate Research Symposium
(January 24, 2023)
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Call for Papers: International Colloquium on French History and Literature at the University of Chicago
(January 17, 2023)
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Graduate Student Symposium at UW-Madison Call for Papers
(December 20, 2022)
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Student Spotlight: Piper Thomas and the Textual Studies Minor Capstone
(November 15, 2022)
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Assistant Professor Hannah Frydman wins the Larry Schehr Memorial Award
(November 14, 2022)
Professor Richard Watts
New Podcast Going Public: Reimagining the PhD features Professor Richard Watts 
(October 3, 2022)
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Society for French Studies 2023 Annual Conference: Call for Papers
(August 17, 2022)
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Pride 2022 with French & Italian Studies
(June 22, 2022)
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Professor Hannah Frydman Wins Malcolm Bowie Prize
(May 31, 2022)
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Call for Papers: Romance Languages Colloquium at Syracuse University
(May 17, 2022)
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Read Professor Maya Smith's newest publication
(April 12, 2022)
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New volume on gender-neutral language sheds light on political controversy in France 
(March 21, 2022)
Beatrice Arduini
Recent Italian and Textual Studies Scholarship by Professor Beatrice Arduini
(January 28, 2022)
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Geoffrey Turnovsky & Anna Preus on Digital Humanities, Data Science, and TEI
(December 21, 2021)
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Forthcoming Book from Professor Louisa Mackenzie on Non-Binary Identities in French Language
(December 1, 2021)
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French Teaching Professors Publish New French Language Textbook
(October 6, 2021)
Associate Professor Maya Angela Smith
Modern Language Association Awards Maya Angela Smith  the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for French and Francophone Studies 
(December 14, 2020)
Associate Professor Beatrice Arduini Publishes First Book
(October 20, 2020)
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New Publication from Associate Professor Louisa Mackenzie  
(August 26, 2020)
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French Major Anna Sulc Featured in the College of Arts & Sciences Perspectives Newsletter
(June 11, 2020)
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Louisa Mackenzie Contributes to New Book  Early Modern Écologies
(April 3, 2020)
Dantzel Cenatiempo
Dantzel Cenatiempo Earns PhD in French Studies 
(December 16, 2019)
Anna Sulc
French Major Anna Sulc awarded the Míċeál Vaughan Award
(December 16, 2019)
Language and Trans Communities in Francophone and Anglophone Spaces
Associate Professor of French Studies Louisa Mackenzie publishes co-edited special issue of H-France Salon on transgender representation in French 
(July 25, 2019)
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French & Italian Studies Faculty Update
(May 6, 2019)
Christelle Silue
French Major Christelle Silué Travels to Ivory Coast to do Research and Advocacy Work
(August 21, 2018)
Kelsey Jackson
French Alumna Kelsey Jackson Recognized for Master's Research: "Facilitating bilingual perception and prediction using gender-specific stimuli: An infant eye-tracking study"
(November 8, 2017)
Florentina Dedu-Constantin
Florentina Dedu-Constantin Wins the Graduate School's 2017 Distinguished Dissertation Award
(July 7, 2017)
Christina Sztajnkrcyer
Christina Sztajnkrcyer Publishes A Piece For The Stroum Center
(June 22, 2017)
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French Major Ethan Walkley wins Library Research Award Grand Prize, Senior Non-Thesis Category
(June 16, 2017)
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Italian Major Allison Dumitriu Carcoana wins Population Health Library Research Award
(June 15, 2017)
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Assistant Professor Maya Smith Talks About her Journey to Multilingualism
(May 4, 2017)
Hailey Burgess
French Doctoral Candidate Presents Paper at Indiana University's Conference Crossing Borders, Breaking Walls
(April 3, 2017)
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Maya Smith earns Royalty Research Fund Scholar award
(March 3, 2016)
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Article Written by Louisa Mackenzie, FIS Associate Professor of French, Awarded Literature Prize
(October 20, 2015)
The Cambridge Companion to Boccaccio finally published, with contributions from FIS Professor Beatrice Arduini
(July 8, 2015)
FIS Faculty, Louisa Mackenzie's book ranked in French Embassy's top 30 French summer reading list
(July 1, 2015)
Professor Susan Gaylard's Hollow Men work Reviewed by Modern Language and Renaissance Quarterly
(January 22, 2015)
Simpson Center Announces Funding Awards for 2015-2016, Includes 3 FIS Professors!
(January 22, 2015)
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Rome Center Offers Unique Research Opportunity
(October 2, 2013)
Louisa Mackenzie with Marianne Hirsch, Vice President of the MLA (photograph courtesy of David Fox)
Louisa Mackenzie receives Honorable Mention for recent book project 
(February 1, 2013)
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Men Who Stare at Cats
(November 13, 2012)