modern languages and literatures

The Department of Modern Languages and Literatures and the Slow Food Movement courses in French and Italian will host two cooking demonstrations by chef Julie Berchoux from Paris. Cooking demonstrations will be held Monday, Nov. 12, and Tuesday, Nov. 13, from 4 to 6:30 p.m. in the kitchen of Villag...

Gilbert Doho, associate professor of French and founding director of the Ethnic Studies Program, was invited to be a keynote speaker at the seventh international colloquium of Le Biennale de la Langue Francaise, co-sponsored by the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie in Paris, France. Do...

The Department of Modern Languages and Literatures will host Mabel Cuesta, an associate professor at the University of Houston, for a talk titled “Lives in the Margins: Neither Militia Mothers nor Normalized Lesbians—The Constant Act of Queering the Cuban Revolution.” Cuesta’s presentation will be ...

Cheryl Toman, professor of French, director of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program and chair of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, was invited by the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF)—the French equivalent of the United Nations with 84 observer states—to partic...

The Japanese Studies Program in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures was awarded a $200,000 salary assistance grant from the Japan Foundation, an organization established by the Japanese government in 1972 for “cultivating friendship and ties between Japan and the world.” The grant wi...

Cheryl Toman, professor of French and chair of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, spoke at the Belgian Embassy in Paris for Panorama de la Francophonie: des projets structurants (Overview of Francophonie: growth-generating projects), hosted by a diplomatic group representing Walloni...

Cheryl Toman, chair of the modern languages and literatures department and professor of French, recently had her critical edition of Justine Mintsa's Awu's Story published as part of the University of Nebraska Press' French Voices Series. Toman also is director of the Women’s and Gender Studies prog...

Yang Han, an undergraduate student taking Japanese classes, competed in the 19th annual Japan-America Society of Central Ohio Japanese Speech Contest. Han presented the speech, "I Do Not Look Like an Otaku” and won first place. Undergraduate student Connor Baumler, also taking Japanese classes, com...

The Italian Film Festival, held at Case Western Reserve University and Cuyahoga Community College–Metro Campus, will feature a series of film screenings throughout the month of April. The screenings will be held: Monday, April 2, at 7 p.m. in Strosacker Auditorium Wednesday, April 4, at 7 p.m....

Over the course of three weeks during the summer, students will have an opportunity to get to know Cuba and get closer to its people, its culture and history. Damaris Punales-Alpizar, associate professor of Spanish, will lead “The Cuban Experience.” Students will take classes in Matanzas and Havan...