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SLLC Dedicates the Lauretta Clough Community Room

February 09, 2024 School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

Members of the SLLC community gathered to remember their longtime friend and colleague

“A national scholarship? I’m just Alyssa from Frederick!”

February 07, 2024 Korean, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

Meet Alyssa Taylor '24—she spent the 2022-23 school year in Korea as a Gilman scholar at Seoul National University. Now, she's connecting students to their own study abroad journeys as a Global Learning Ambassador for Education Abroad.

Inaugural ‘Harmony Fellows’ Blend Disciplines, Forge New Directions for ARHU and UMD

January 31, 2024 College of Arts and Humanities, History, Art History and Archaeology, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Art, The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Classics, American Studies

Seven pairs of fellows, from ARHU and beyond, are working on a range of projects to innovate curricula, research and programming.

SLLC Graduate Students Awarded for Commitment to Students

January 25, 2024 School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, French, Spanish and Portuguese

Theavy Din and Daniela Paz Henandez have been recognized by the Graduate School.

2024 Maya Brin Artist-in-Residence Mikhail Durnenkov

January 23, 2024 Russian, School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

The Maya Brin Residency Program is proud to announce Artist-in-Residence, Mikhail Durnenkov, who will be a visiting faculty member in the SLLC and the TDPS for the Spring 2024 semester.

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Alvaro Enrigue, a Spanish Department Alumnus, Dreams of Empires in His Latest Book - The New York Times

January 11, 2024 School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

For Álvaro Enrigue, a novelist fascinated with historical detail, the first meeting of the Aztecs and Spanish conquistadors is the obsession of a lifetime. He brings it to life in “You Dreamed of Empires.”

Assistant Professor of French Receives NHPRC-Mellon Planning Grant to Create Digital Edition of Global Antislavery Periodical

December 06, 2023 School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, French, College of Arts and Humanities, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities

The Revue des Colonies was published in France between 1834 and 1842.

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New Fraternity seeks to unite French speakers, provide networking opportunities

December 06, 2023 French, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

Lambda Pi Delta aims to establish a community for French speakers.

Italian program brings filmmaker Duccio Chiarini as part of the celebrations for the 100th anniversary of Italo Calvino's birth.

December 05, 2023 School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Italian

On November 13, 2023, the Italian program celebrated Italo Calvino, one of the most important Italian writers of the twentieth century.

SLLC Student Named 2023-24 Philip Merrill Presidential Scholar

November 30, 2023 School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Chinese

The program honors Ira Valeza ’24, a double major in Chinese and government and politics, and her teacher mentors.