We are extremely pleased to announce that Vanessa Borilot, PhD student in French and Francophone World Studies, has been awarded the Department's 2009-2010 Benhamou Award for graduate study. After completing her MA at the University of Delaware, Vanessa is now pursuing graduate coursework at the University of Iowa with a focus on francophone women's writing. Thanks to the generosity of Paul and Reed Benhamou, the Benhamou award provides financial support for graduate study in French and Francophone World Studies at the University of Iowa.
From the Chair
Monday, November 2, 2009
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Arabic Film Club
This semester marks the inauguration, under the direction of Arabic Program Coordinator Denes Gazsi, of the Arabic Film Club. Screenings will be held at 6pm in 22 Schaeffer Hall.
Thursday, October 8, 2009
Mabrouck RACHEDI
The next French and Italian Forum (Monday October 12th, 4pm, 315 Phillips Hall) provides a special opportunity to get to know the works of International Writing Program writer in residence Mabrouck Rachedi, who will be providing a reading of excerpts from his works, along with discussion of his dual career in the banking industry and as a widely published essayist and novelist. Venez nombreux!
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Phi Beta Kappa
The Department is proud to recognize that two students, in French and Italian respectively, have been invited to join the Alpha of Iowa Chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa Society: Lindsay Lee Artis and Kayla M. Dreeszen. Congratulations, Lindsay and Kayla!
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Valerie Loichot
The Department, along with the International Programs Caribbean Diaspora and Atlantic Studies Program, is delighted to Welcome Professor Valérie Loichot (Emory University), who will be presenting a talk entitled "Eating the Tropics: Lafcadio Hearn's Martinique", Monday, October 5th, 4-5:30, 315 Phillips Hall.
Friday, September 25, 2009
ICRU Award in F&I
The Department is proud to recognize the achievements of our outstanding undergraduate French majors. Most recently, Kristen Meylor wrote her senior thesis (as a junior!), under the direction of Professor Peter Eubanks, on “Hemingway le cosmopolite et la reproduction authentique de la désorientation culturelle.” She won one of four Iowa Center for Research by Undergraduates (ICRU) awards to continue working on her project this past summer, the only humanities student to be awarded this fellowship. It will fund a trip to the Modernist Studies Association meeting in Montréal this November (she will fly there from Martinique, where she is currently studying abroad), where she will present her research. Congratulations Kristen!
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Launch of New Blog
Welcome to a new academic year in French, Italian, and Arabic at the University of Iowa! This year we are very pleased to welcome a number of new students and colleagues to the Department.
We welcome two new Teaching Assistants from our exchange programs in France: Cyril Bastanes from Pau and Céline Vandrisse from Poitiers; a new Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant, Nader Almgdami, who comes to us from Libya; two new MA students, Cynthia Kanko, from Ghana, and Stève Levillain, who was with us last year and is newly entering the MA program; one new PhD student, Vanessa Borilot, from the University of Delaware.
At this year's welcome back picnic in Upper City Park, these new colleagues had the opportunity to meet some of our continuing cohort. Graduate students and TAs in French, Italian, and Arabic continue to bring their considerable talents to the program: Asila Al Ma'awali, Tony Balcaen, James Boucher, Elizabeth Carroll, Lauren Clark, Heidi Collins, Marion Duval, Moussa Fall, Gary Gluck, Erica Goldberg, Jennifer Howell, Sonia Kpota, Rebecca Léal, Alessandra Madela, Léah Pesola, and Arne Seim. Last but not least, we are pleased to welcome our new Arabic Program Coordinator Denes Gazsi, who comes to us from Budapest, Hungary.
Both our new and continuing TAs and graduate students, along with faculty and staff, come to the University of Iowa from many parts of the world and enrich our campus with the international diversity of their knowledge and experience. Welcome all - we look forward to a great year working together to educate the community about the importance of learning multiple languages and cultures in the world of today and tomorrow. On Iowa!
We welcome two new Teaching Assistants from our exchange programs in France: Cyril Bastanes from Pau and Céline Vandrisse from Poitiers; a new Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant, Nader Almgdami, who comes to us from Libya; two new MA students, Cynthia Kanko, from Ghana, and Stève Levillain, who was with us last year and is newly entering the MA program; one new PhD student, Vanessa Borilot, from the University of Delaware.
At this year's welcome back picnic in Upper City Park, these new colleagues had the opportunity to meet some of our continuing cohort. Graduate students and TAs in French, Italian, and Arabic continue to bring their considerable talents to the program: Asila Al Ma'awali, Tony Balcaen, James Boucher, Elizabeth Carroll, Lauren Clark, Heidi Collins, Marion Duval, Moussa Fall, Gary Gluck, Erica Goldberg, Jennifer Howell, Sonia Kpota, Rebecca Léal, Alessandra Madela, Léah Pesola, and Arne Seim. Last but not least, we are pleased to welcome our new Arabic Program Coordinator Denes Gazsi, who comes to us from Budapest, Hungary.
Both our new and continuing TAs and graduate students, along with faculty and staff, come to the University of Iowa from many parts of the world and enrich our campus with the international diversity of their knowledge and experience. Welcome all - we look forward to a great year working together to educate the community about the importance of learning multiple languages and cultures in the world of today and tomorrow. On Iowa!
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