modern languages and literatures

The Department of Modern Languages and Literatures will host a screening of the documentary Pushkin Is Our Everything Thursday, April 27, from 6 to 8 p.m. in Guilford House, Room 323. In the documentary, Michael Beckelhimer goes on a journey through Russia to find out how Russia’s most famous 19th-...

The 2017 edition of Italian Film Festival USA – Cleveland will open today (April 10) with a screening of The Road to Reconciliation (La Via Della Conciliazione) at 7 p.m. in Strosacker Auditorium. The plot of the film is: The Via della Conciliazione with St. Peter’s Basilica in the background is o...

The 2017 edition of Italian Film Festival USA will come to Cleveland April 10-21, with Case Western Reserve University’s Strosacker Auditorium as one of the venues. CWRU will hold showings at 7 p.m. on the following dates: Monday, April 10; Wednesday, April 12; Monday, April 17; and Wednes...

Paris: L'Harmattan published a book by Gilbert Doho, associate professor of French, last month, about a set of executive orders that were conceived and used by French colonial administrators to control, oppress and punish indigenes in their territories. His book is titled Le Code de l'Indigénat ou ...

The Department of Modern Languages and Literatures and the CWRU Film Society will co-sponsor the Cleveland premiere of Fred Kuwornu's 2016 film documentary Blaxploitalian – 100 Years of Blackness in Italian Cinema. Black actors have appeared in Italian cinema since 1915, yet it’s a population of en...

Cheryl Toman, associate professor of French in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, was named president of the Biennale de la Langue Française in December in Paris. Toman becomes the first female and the first American to lead the 54-year-old institution, which is registered officiall...

The book Entre Nous (Paris: La Doxa), for which Associate Professor of French Cheryl Toman provided the preface, won the national prize for Gabon in the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)-sponsored competition, La Journée du Manuscrit Francophone. The book is ...

Increasingly, universities try to teach and be “global.” But even in disciplines that lend themselves to this notion, notably African Studies or Postcolonial Studies, why do specialists confine themselves to linguistic borders, such as Anglophone, Francophone or Lusophone? Sara Hanaburgh, assistant...