As part of the FRN 440 course on Franco-Arabic Comics, Kriti Shirodkar has undertaken an honors project under the guidance of Professor Valentina Denzel. Her research is dedicated to the life and legacy of Razan al-Najjar, a…
A new on-campus living-learning community where Spanish is the primary language will open its doors at Michigan State University in Fall 2025. Led and developed entirely by a team of…
After a six-year hiatus, one of the longest-running graduate student-edited journals in Romance Studies in North America has returned. The publication, TROPOS, which was first published in 1971, is run entirely by graduate students in the Department of Romance and Classical Studies at Michigan State University.
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…
Congratulations to Mariam Sayed, an MSU French alumna, for being one of 8 MSU students/alumni nominated for the prestigious Marshall Scholarship.
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…
Enthusiasm is high this semester for RCS' long-running Spanish conversation group, Pláticas. The group meets four times a week in Wells Hall for informal chats or "pláticas" in Spanish. The…
The Italian Language Foundation has awarded an Enrico Fermi fellowship to RCS second-year premedical student Joeeanna Berdeski. The scholarship is awarded to outstanding students enrolled both in Italian language and…
Five College of Arts & Letters students and alumni were awarded 2024-2025 Fulbright U.S. Student Program grants. They are among the 10 Michigan State University students and alumni who were offered Fulbright grants this year, nine of whom accepted the awards and are traveling to seven different countries to conduct research or teach English during the 2024-2025 academic year.
A dedicated group of RCS students are busily laying the foundations for La Casa, a new inclusive, on-campus Living, Learning Community (LLC) for MSU students. The initiative is aimed at…