modern languages and literatures

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…

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,…