French & Italian Studies
French & Italian Studies
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Associate Professor of Italian
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Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature and French
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Professor Emeritus, French
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Professor, Architectural History/Art History
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Associate Professor Emeritus of French
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Professor and Chair of Department of English
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News
- 2023-2024 Simpson Center Funding for FIS Faculty Research (March 15, 2023)
- Autumn Events Co-Sponsored by French & Italian Studies (November 14, 2022)
- Upcoming Book Talk: Robert Desjarlais and Khalil Habrih (November 1, 2022)
- Upcoming Book Talk with Dr. Oriel Siu (October 4, 2022)
- *SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED* Call For Presentations: Social Justice Pedagogies Across Language and Culture Curricula: Opening a Division-Wide Conversation (March 2, 2022)
- Recent Italian and Textual Studies Scholarship by Professor Beatrice Arduini (January 28, 2022)
- Geoffrey Turnovsky & Anna Preus on Digital Humanities, Data Science, and TEI (December 21, 2021)
- New Rome in Residence Program in Winter 2022! (April 15, 2021)
- For the Love of Rome (September 3, 2020)
- In Memoriam: Professor Emeritus Constantine Christofides (1928-2020) (June 30, 2020)
- Career Panel for Foreign Language Students (December 16, 2019)
- Guest Lecturer Jean Beaman on Citizen Outsider: Race and Racism in France and Beyond (December 16, 2019)
- French Major Anna Sulc awarded the Míċeál Vaughan Award (December 16, 2019)
- French Major Ashley Beeman Named Dean's Medalist of the Humanities Division (June 6, 2019)
- French Major Giulia Szanyi Following her Passion for French and Journalism (April 3, 2019)
- 6th Annual French & Italian Studies Photo Contest Results! (December 6, 2018)
- UW Welcomes Québec Artist Sophie Labelle (November 1, 2018)
- French & Italian Studies Spring & Summer Courses! (October 22, 2018)
- Vacation, J’adore: 5 Transportive Reads (September 24, 2018)
- Pre-Med, Italian Style (September 12, 2018)
- French Major Christelle Silué Travels to Ivory Coast to do Research and Advocacy Work (August 21, 2018)
- Congratulations 2018 Graduates! (June 22, 2018)
- Italian Major Allison Dumitriu Carcoana Wins Library Research Award (June 11, 2018)
- Graduating French Major Chenyibo Zhu Named Dean's Medalist & Gonfaloniere (June 8, 2018)
- Graduating French Majors Accepted to the TAPIF! (May 29, 2018)
- French Major Lia Koklic on the UW + Amazon Mentors Program (April 23, 2018)
- New Rome Study Abroad Program Deadline Extended to October 10th! (April 11, 2018)
- Register Now for French & Italian Summer Courses! (April 10, 2018)
- French Alumni Peadar Kavanagh to Start PhD Program at the University of Chicago (March 14, 2018)
- French Club Meetings in Winter Quarter (January 23, 2018)
- Italian Club Cooks Dinner for the Families at the Ronald McDonald House (December 7, 2017)
- French Study Abroad Program Information Sessions (November 30, 2017)
- French & Italian Studies Photo Contest Results! (November 21, 2017)
- Italian Club Community Outreach & Autumn Events (October 10, 2017)
- New Sections of First Year French Added! (September 7, 2017)
- Featured Autumn Courses! (July 24, 2017)
- Florentina Dedu-Constantin Wins the Graduate School's 2017 Distinguished Dissertation Award (July 7, 2017)
- Florentina Dedu-Constantin honored as a Gonfaloniere for the Graduate School & Nominated for the Distinguished Dissertation Award (June 6, 2017)
- French Major Martin Horst Presents Honors Thesis at the Cornell Undergraduate Lingustics Colloquium (May 2, 2017)
- Richard Watts Spotlight in the Whole U's Faculty Friday (December 16, 2016)
- Rome's Birthday Party a Big Hit! (April 22, 2016)
- Louisa Mackenzie receives joint Mellon Fellowship for course development (March 8, 2016)
- 2015 FIS Photo Contest Winners Announced! (November 19, 2015)
- KING5 News Sits in on class discussion of recent Paris attacks (November 17, 2015)
- FIS Now Hiring: Lecturer Full-Time in Italian (November 5, 2015)
- Italian Conversation Group Announces Winter Quarter Regular Meetings (October 21, 2015)
- Article Written by Louisa Mackenzie, FIS Associate Professor of French, Awarded Literature Prize (October 20, 2015)
- Susan Gaylard, FIS Associate Professor of Italian, wins 10-month Newberry Fellowship (October 20, 2015)
- New French and Italian Major and Minor Requirements Taking Effect Autumn Quarter 2015! (October 7, 2015)
- FIS Grad Student and TA Receives Mellon Fellowship (August 7, 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)
- UW Students Meet with Martinican Artist Laurent Valère (June 24, 2015)
- Two FIS Faculty Named Chevaliers dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques! (May 20, 2015)
- Madrigal & Villapondo speak to French 212 students about NWDC Resistance (May 18, 2015)
- French Major, Benjamin Ransom, Presents Research Poster at 2015 UW Undergrad Research Symposium (May 18, 2015)
- French Major Nominated for $5,000 Scholarship! (April 23, 2015)
- Filmmaker Visits French 499 - Qualtitative Research Methods Class (May 28, 2014)
- Autumn 2014 Course: The Water Crisis in Literature and Film (May 14, 2014)
- Autumn 2014 Course: "Fashion" in Early Modern Europe (May 14, 2014)
- Autumn 2014 Course: Friendship and Betrayal in Early Italian Literature (May 14, 2014)
- Christina Sztajnkrycer, Graduate Student in French Studies, Selected for Jewish Studies Graduate Fellowship (May 12, 2014)
- PhD Candidate Claire Mouflard to Join Faculty at Union College in the Fall (May 6, 2014)
- Maya Smith and Richard Watts, FIS Faculty, Celebrate Mardi Gras! (March 4, 2014)
- Five Italian Cities - Then and Now (February 13, 2014)
- "Coffee and Cigarettes": The Public Intellectual in France (February 12, 2014)
- Spring 2014 Course: "Animal Studies" in French and Francophone Contexts (February 7, 2014)
- Spring 2014 Course: French Language and Cultural Identity (February 7, 2014)
- Spring 2014 Course - Qualitative Research Methods (February 7, 2014)
- Spring 2014 Course: Francophone Literature and Cultures (February 5, 2014)
- Spring 2014 Course: Atelier d’écriture/Writer’s Workshop (February 5, 2014)
- Art + Science = Environmental Humanities (November 25, 2013)
- First Annual FIS Photo Contest - Voting open from Nov. 19- Nov. 21 (November 19, 2013)
- W14 Course: Culture and Media Forms:The First New Media: The “Printing Revolution” and its Impacts (November 15, 2013)
- W14 Course: Qui sommes-nous?The Quest for Identity in Québécois Literature and Culture (November 7, 2013)
- W14 Course: The Age of Discovery Through Italian Literature and Culture (November 7, 2013)
- W14 Course: TRASH: An Enlightenment of Sorts (November 7, 2013)
- Teaching With Technology Fellows Explore New Ways to Present Class Content (October 2, 2013)
- Rome Center Offers Unique Research Opportunity (October 2, 2013)
- French student, Kevin Velasco, selected for the 2013-2014 Teaching Assistant Program in France (July 17, 2013)
- French student, Preston Albertine, selected for the 2013-2014 Teaching Assistant Program in France (July 17, 2013)
- French student, Kevin Escobar, selected for the 2013-2014 Teaching Assistant Program in France (July 15, 2013)
- French student, Alexandra Colley, selected for the 2013-2014 Teaching Assistant Program in France (July 15, 2013)
- French student, Dana Talant, selected for the 2013-2014 Teaching Assistant Program in France (July 15, 2013)
- Martinique Program Students Shake Hands with French Prime Minister, Jean-Marc Ayrault (June 27, 2013)
- Italian minor receives FLAS award (April 26, 2013)
- Prof. Susan Gaylard receives Newberry Library-Kress Foundation Fellowship (April 17, 2013)
- Graduating Italian Student Receives Fulbright Award! (April 16, 2013)
- Men Who Stare at Cats (November 13, 2012)
- Course Highlights - Winter 2013 (November 1, 2012)
- FIS Faculty present at the 110th Annual Conference of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA), October 19-21, 2012, hosted by Seattle University (October 25, 2012)
- Actor/director guests from SIFF's French Cinema Now festival visit UW French classes (October 25, 2012)
- Shopping around for a unique and thought-provoking VLPA class for winter quarter? Check out French 250: French Cinema (in English) (October 23, 2012)
- Assoc. Prof. Richard Watts begins five-year term as Chair of French & Italian Studies (July 2, 2012)
- Graduating Italian student selected to attend the European Union Center of Excellence (EUCE) Visit Program in Belgium! (June 21, 2012)
- French Major Selected as Bonderman Travel Fellow! (May 7, 2012)
- French Alumna to Begin Peace Corps Position in Morocco (May 2, 2012)
- Josh Gailey (Italian, Applied Music, and Music History Major) Named as Dean's Medalist in the Arts! (March 30, 2012)
- French Professors to Present at Association for Literature, Environment, and Culture in Canada Conference (March 29, 2012)
- Louisa Mackenzie Receives Society of Scholars Fellowship for 2012-2013 (February 2, 2012)
- Three Dean's Medalists Hail from French and Italian Studies (December 1, 2011)