We are excited to share the release of the latest volume of TROPOS, an interdisciplinary graduate student journal housed in the Department of Romance and Classical Studies at Michigan State…
The Department of Romance and Classical Studies is proud to celebrate Vanessa Weller, a third-year PhD student in French and Francophone Studies, for her recent publication. Vanessa’s paper, originally presented…
Congratulations to these five impressive scholars on their well-deserved graduation from our RCS graduate programs. Carlos Chacón Preciado completed his M.A. in Hispanic Literature and will begin his PhD at…
On Feb. 22, PhD students Hannah Olsen and Vanessa Weller presented at the 20th and 21st Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium in Philadelphia, PA. The theme of the…
On Tuesday, December 5th, GSA-TROPOS welcomed Dr. Ndiaye to speak about her book, Scripts of Blackness: Early Modern Performance Culture and the Making of Race. Her academic work examines how…
From Monday November 6 to Friday November 10, 2023, RCS' second French-Language Film Festival --newly renamed for the late, beloved Prof. Anna Norris-- drew over 150 enthusiastic viewers to screenings…
In March 2023, the French and Francophone Studies Program hosted an open house to launch its new degree requirements. Majors, minors, graduate students, faculty and even deans all got together…
On July 7th, Isaac Veyey-White successfully defended his dissertation His dissertation, Mapping Precarity & Resistance to Neoliberalism in Post-2008 Spanish Comics is a wide-ranging study of comics, graphic novels and political cartoons…
Giovanni Salazar Calvo, PhD Candidate in Hispanic and Cultural Studies in our department, has been accepted to the Research Methods Workshop for Early-Career Graduate Students, organized by the Newberry Library…
The Department of Romance and Classical studies is very pleased to celebrate Martiniano Etchart, Lauren Stahl, and María Laura Zalazar, this year's M.A. graduates in Spanish as a Second or…