modern languages and literatures

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…

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,…