Cosette Bruhns, RLL graduate student in Italian, was awarded this year's Wayne Booth Graduate Student Prize for Excellence in Teaching. Winners of the prize are nominated by their students.
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).
