Several RLL faculty members are featured in two stories in the Spring 2016 issue of Tableau. Assistant Professors Maria Anna Mariani, Rocco Rubini, Victoria Saramago, Larissa Brewer-García, Miguel Martínez, and Laura Gandolfi discuss their work in Crossing Borders, a piece focusing on young faculty and their interdisciplinary research, and discuss texts that influenced them in Past Texts.
On May 26, Dominic Thomas (Professor of French and Francophone Studies at UCLA) will give a talk entitled "African Literature: Global and Globalized" as part of the Explorations in Francophone African Literature lecture series. Professor Thomas' interests include contemporary French politics, globalization, and sub-Saharan African culture and politics. His publications include Black France: Colonialism, Immigration, and Transnationalism (2007) and Africa and France: Postcolonial Cultures, Migration, and Racism (2013).
According to a recent Chicago Maroon survey of undergraduate student evaluations dating back to Autumn 2006, RLL student evaluations rank our programs among very highest at the University. RLL courses took three of the top 15 "highest average rating" spots. The full article is available here: http://chicagomaroon.com/2016/02/16/evaluating-course-evaluations/
