Humanities

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People

Geoffrey Turnovsky
Professor of French

News

Geoffrey Turnovsky Featured in The History of Literature Podcast (October 21, 2024)
Professor Hedwige Meyer and FIS Graduate Student Dr. Sarah-Kate Moore Present at the Spring Language Pedagogy Circle Meeting (April 26, 2024)
New and Exciting FIS Courses Offered in Autumn Quarter 2024 (April 15, 2024)
2023-2024 Simpson Center Funding for FIS Faculty Research (March 15, 2023)
New Academic Awards for Textual & Digital Studies Students! (March 7, 2023)
FIS Faculty Receive Funding for Course Development (December 16, 2022)
Study Abroad in 2023! (December 13, 2022)
Student Spotlight: Piper Thomas and the Textual Studies Minor Capstone (November 15, 2022)
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)
New Podcast Going Public: Reimagining the PhD features Professor Richard Watts (October 3, 2022)
Society for French Studies 2023 Annual Conference: Call for Papers (August 17, 2022)
Congratulations to Professor Albert Sbragia on his Retirement! (June 14, 2022)
Two Graduating French Majors Accepted to the Teaching Assistant Program in France (May 24, 2022)
*SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED* Call For Presentations: Social Justice Pedagogies Across Language and Culture Curricula: Opening a Division-Wide Conversation (March 2, 2022)
Spring 2022 Cool Courses (February 11, 2022)
Guest Lecture by Dr. Natale Vacalebre: Books as Bridges of Peace: Aldus Manutius and Pedagogical Humanism (February 9, 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)
French Teaching Professors Publish New French Language Textbook (October 6, 2021)
Apply Now for Rome in Residence Program in Spring 2022! (August 23, 2021)
New Rome in Residence Program in Winter 2022! (April 15, 2021)
Funding continues for UW Translation Studies Hub (October 12, 2020)
For the Love of Rome (September 3, 2020)
Why Study a Foreign Language? (July 10, 2020)
In Memoriam: Professor Emeritus Constantine Christofides (1928-2020) (June 30, 2020)
Meet 'Humanities First' (May 7, 2020)
With "Humanities First," The UW Expands opportunities for First Year Students (May 7, 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)
Dantzel Cenatiempo Earns PhD in French Studies (December 16, 2019)
French Major Anna Sulc awarded the Míċeál Vaughan Award (December 16, 2019)
French Minor Conor Cunningham Awarded the Boren Scholarship (October 16, 2019)
Students & Superlatives (August 8, 2019)
French Major Ashley Beeman Named Dean's Medalist of the Humanities Division (June 6, 2019)
French & Italian Studies Faculty Update (May 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)
FIS and CHID host screening of documentary Paris Noir (May 18, 2017)
French Major Martin Horst Presents Honors Thesis at the Cornell Undergraduate Lingustics Colloquium (May 2, 2017)
FIS and Slavic Departments Host Language Major Career Panel (March 3, 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)
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)
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)