Languages, Literatures and Cultures
Bookbeat
Languages of Urban Africa
Fiona McLaughlin and the linguistics of Africa's complex urban landscapes.
Man
of Quality, Man of Letters
Rori Bloom looks at the writings of Antoine-Francois Prevost.
Newsletters
French
Studies
(PDF)
In this Issue: French Art and Literature in the 18th Century.
Events
Saturday, March 20, 2010
Uniting as One, Awakening the African Genius Within Us - All African Day Celebration
Monday, March 22, 2010
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
What can be learned about the grammar of French from corpora of spoken French?
Thursday, March 25, 2010
48th annual meeting of the Southern Conference on Slavic Studies
Friday, March 26, 2010
48th annual meeting of the Southern Conference on Slavic Studies
Saturday, March 27, 2010
48th annual meeting of the Southern Conference on Slavic Studies
News
- Asian Studies Talent Show Draws 200
- Consul General of France in Miami to visit UF on Thursday
- It is time to apply for UF study abroad programs in Paris for the May Intersession and for the Summer semester.
- Languages, Literature, and Culture Lecturer to Join Delegation to China
- Carol Murphy inducted into the French Legion of Honor
- New Faculty Appointments
Disciplinary Specializations
Because of its diverse collective expertise in over twenty cultural, linguistic, and literary traditions, the LLC faculty brings unique transnational insight and perspectives to broader issues in a variety of sub-disciplines, including:
- Culture/Cultural Studies
- Film and Media Studies
- Language Pedagogy
- Linguistics
- Literature
- Medieval & Early Modern Studies
- Translation Studies
Areas of Study
- Akan
- Amharic
- Arabic
- Chinese
- Czech
- Dutch
- French
- German
- Haitian Creole
- Hebrew
- Hindi-Urdu
- Italian
- Japanese
- Lingala
- Polish
- Russian
- Scandinavian / Swedish
- Swahili
- Vietnamese
- Wolof
- Yoruba
- Xhosa
Mission
As home to the majority of the language and literature programs on campus, this department endorses the premise that to learn another language is to step into another world. The knowledge acquired in this transformative process has an intrinsic value to the university and its students. As such, we have a four-fold mission:
- to conduct research at the graduate and faculty level in the languages, literatures and cultures of the world, including linguistic and media studies, and communicate original results that relate these domains;
- to facilitate the study of languages, literatures and cultures at the undergraduate level in such a way that students actively engage with this field of knowledge;
- to connect North American and international perspectives on academic endeavors in the humanities, and to maintain an international voice and presence at the University of Florida; and
- to promote the integrity of our component academic fields and to support the vitality of each of the programs housed in the department.
By cultivating the potential inherent in combining both national and transnational approaches in a single entity, the department advocates an inclusive and interdisciplinary scholarship that develops innovative models, both theoretical and pragmatic, for the study of languages, literatures, and the various media that comprise our understanding of culture.
