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
November 8, 2009
Keene Faculty Center, Dauer Hall, 1:00-3:30 pm
Nov. 13, 2009
Pugh Hall 210 - 3:30PM
Dec. 1, 2009
Dauer Hall 219 - 4:00PM
If French Does Not Have Word Stress. Does It have Words?
News
- Carol Murphy inducted into the French Legion of Honor
- New Faculty Appointments
- PLIDA Italian Proficiency Exams
- McLaughlin awarded International and Area Studies Fellowship
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.
