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Vamos fazer um Podcast!

4.15.22

Portuguese 103 students create podcasts with guidance from their instructor, Mark Dowell.

WashU’s French connection

3.8.22

The French Connexions Cultural Center is WashU’s ambassador to the Francophone world, facilitating a network of cultural and professional opportunities for the campus and St. Louis community.

Celebrating Afro-Mexico and Its Cuisine

2.28.22

Professor Valerio reflects on cuisine and scholarship at Rick Bayless’ Frontera Grill in Chicago.

Sounds of street protest

2.24.22

What happens when invisibilized bodies, faces and voices occupy public spaces? That’s one of the questions that propelled graduate students Gicela Medina and Rodrigo Viqueira (both in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures) as they developed their podcast, “Street Politics Across the Americas.” Inspired by a striking increase in street actions in North, Central and South America, the Divided City Summer Graduate Student Research Fellows set out to explore the hemispheric history of street politics and analyze how public space has been politically used by marginalized groups across the Americas.

Mark Dowell, a Lecturer in the Department of Romance Languages and Literature, uses Annoto to Support Asynchronous Language Learning

1.24.22

"Annoto solved the problem of encouraging collaborative speaking, listening, reading, and writing practice in the context of an asynchronous, online, language course." -Prof. Mark Dowell

Baker’s Blues: St. Louis Remembers Josephine

1.11.22

Lionel Cuillé writes about the University's Celebrating Josephine Baker's event in Villa Albertine.

Celebrating Josephine Baker

12.13.21

On November 30, 2021, French ConneXions Center of Excellence, the Romance Languages and Literatures Department, and the Divided City Initiative celebrated Josephine Baker’s introduction into the Panthéon in Paris.

Andia Augustin-Billy, PhD WashU French Alumna, is Centenary College's first Tenured Black Faculty Member

11.3.21

Andia Augustin-Billy, PhD WashU French Alumna, is Centenary College's first Tenured Black Faculty Member.

Faculty Employment Opportunity: Latinx Performance Studies Position

9.9.21

The Performing Arts Department (PAD) and RLL invite applications for an Associate or Full Professor in the area of Latinx Performance Studies.

RLL Graduate Students Summer Fellowships with The Divided City

6.29.21

Congratulations to our RLL graduate students on their Graduate Summer Research Fellowship with the Divided City.

Published article by Soledad Mocchi-Radichi, a Ph.D. candidate in our Hispanic Studies program

6.9.21

Soledad Mocchi-Radichi, a Ph.D. candidate in our Hispanic Studies program publishes an article in the journal, Latin American Theatre Review.

Prof. Acree featured on podcast about his book, Staging Frontiers: the making of modern popular culture in Argentina and Uruguay

6.8.21

Prof. Acree featured on podcast about his book, Staging Frontiers. The Making of Modern Popular Culture in Argentina and Uruguay.