News
Congratulations to our PhD candidates in French who have been awarded competitive fellowships!
The Department of French and Italian would like to congratulate three of our PhD candidates in French on being awarded competitive fellowships:
Yacine Chemssi (Lawler)
Nawel Cotez (Mellon)
Leopold Mvuezolo (Mellon)
Kaliane Ung Awarded 2024 ACLS Fellowship
Awards Recognize Excellence in Research in the Humanities and Interpretive Social Sciences
Allyson Wetherhold is the 2024 Golden Lotus Award recipient.
Allyson Wetherhold is graduating with a BA in French, Political Science, and International Studies, with a minor in Korean. At the Department of French and Italian, Allyson really loved the focus on French as a global language and being introduced to so many cultures. One of her favorite courses was the “French Atlantic” which she found challenging but appreciated learning about the shared history of Francophone countries.
Pedagogy Workshop, “Developing Pedagogy with Generative AI in FRIT classrooms,” Wednesday, April 10, 2-3pm in CL 1219
You’re all invited to our next pedagogy workshop: “Developing Pedagogy with Generative AI in FRIT Classrooms,” next Wednesday, April 10th, 2:00pm-3:00pm in CL 1219. The workshop, will be led by our very own Jin Kim and Caitlin Dahl. Here is their description of the workshop:
We’re excited to welcome Dr. Erec Koch (CUNY Graduate Center) for a lecture on versioning and collaborative writing in 17th-century France
Please join us for a lecture by Dr. Erec Koch (Professor of French and Global Early Modern Studies, CUNY Graduate Center)
“La Rochefoucauld et Cie: Worldly Maxims, Collaboration, and Orality”
Wednesday, April 3, 2024
1:30PM-3:00PM
501 Cathedral of Learning
The Italian Film Festival USA-Pittsburgh is happy to announce this year’s festival program
The Italian Film Festival USA-Pittsburgh is happy to announce this year’s festival program, running from April 5-20.
Congratulations to undergraduate Italian Nationality Room awardees Rorie Whitcomb (Italian & Finance) and Rafael Romero Lauro (Italian & English Literature)
Congratulations to undergraduate Italian Nationality Room awardees Rorie Whitcomb (Italian & Finance) and Rafael Romero Lauro (Italian & English Literature), both of whom will be studying on the Pitt in Italy Program in Rome this summer. Congratulations also to Italian MA student Daniel Turillo, who will conduct research on Fascist-era film industry propaganda in the US.
Join the March 20th special presentation of Language Careers!
Wondering about post-graduation options for language majors from Pitt’s Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences? Join us on Wednesday, March 20, 2024 at 6pm via Zoom for a conversation with alumni and faculty to learn how and why our language departments are incredible launching pads to a wide range of careers.
Support Students of Italian on this year’s Pitt Day of Giving!
Once again this year the Italian Program is excited to participate in the Pitt Day of Giving. The funds we collect will go to stipends for undergraduate students participating in faculty-mentored research and professional opportunities like our exciting summer internship in Italy with the University of Macerata, the Macerata Opera Festival, and InclusivOpera.
Dance, Pandemics, and Kinesthetic Disobedience: From St. Vitus to TikTok
March 6, 2024 -
5:00pm to 6:00pm
Lucille Toth, PhD
Assistant Professor of French
The Ohio State University
Abstract: This talk will address the long history of “infectious dances” from St Vitus epidemics of dancing mania to HIV+ dancers, and dance videos going viral on social media today. Thinking about pandemics through dance allows us to analyze the types of production, as well as spaces of disobedience, that are created in times of health crisis.
Congratulations to Prof. Jim Coleman for being awarded the First Book Prize from the American Association of Teachers of Italian (AATI)
"We would like to congratulate Prof. Jim Coleman being awarded the First Book Prize from the American Association of Teachers of Italian (AATI). The AATI prize committee wrote that A Sudden Frenzy “is a superbly written account about the theory and practice of the fundamental yet elusive tradition of improvised poetry recitation in Renaissance Italy."