About the Department
Through scholarship and teaching, the Department demonstrates the importance of knowing languages and knowing the world through languages.
The Department of Romance Languages and Literatures represents a vital
intersection of intellectual, artistic, and cultural traditions within
a globalized network of contemporary humanities scholarship and creative
expression. Read more >
Programs
The Department offers undergraduate programs in French, Italian, Portuguese, Romance Languages, and Spanish; and graduate programs in French and Francophone Studies, Iberian and Latin American Studies, and Italian Studies.
News & Events
January 19, 2010 - 4:30-6:00 p.m. - Snite Museum of Art
Caffé & Conversazione for the exhibit "The World of Piranesi" with a reception and three brief gallery talks by Sabrina Ferri, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Margaret Meserve, Department of History and Pierpaolo Polzonetti, Program of Liberal Studies. The exhibit will run from January 17-February 28, 2010. The exhibit features 10 etchings by Giovanni Battista Piranesi.
Tuesday, January 19, 2010 - 5:00 p.m. - Rare Books Reading Room, Hesburgh Library
Lecture: "The Birth of Arthur: Kingship and Seduction" (a comparison of Guillaume de Malmesbury, Wace, and Layamon), Professor Denis Hue, Univ de Rennes 2, France.
January 21, 2010 - 5:00 p.m. - DeBartolo Hall, Room 131
Lecture "Futurism and the Mathematical Marvelous," by Professor Jeffrey T. Schnapp, Rosina Pierotti Professor in Italian, Professor of Comparative Literature and Director of the Stanford Humanities Laboratory, Stanford University, presented by The Global Modernisms Initiative.
Announcement - Exchange Program Now Open for Applications for 2010-2011 - Notre Dame Graduate Exchange with Université de Rennes 2, France
Julia Douthwaite, professor of Romance languages and literatures recently published an article that reveals the existence of a French “Frankenstein,” 28 years before the publication of Mary Shelley’s masterpiece. More Information
A Successful Exchange
by Mollie Zubek and Gail Hinchion Mancini
Exchange program with Université of Rennes 2, France
