Languages, Literatures and Cultures
Bookbeat
Spatial
Turns
Barbara Mennel looks at space as an
analytical and representational category for culture.
Cet “autres” qui nous distingue. Tendances communautaires et parcours individuels dans le système des pronoms en français québécois
Helene Blondeau traces a linguistic change in progress affecting the usage of pronouns in Quebec French.
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In this Issue: Successes in French and Francophone Studies at UF.
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Study Abroad in Italy.
Events
Friday, March 25
Stalin's Biography: Childhood or World History?
Saturday, March 26
The Humanitarian's Tale: How the Story of Ekaterina Peshkova's Life Informs the Story of Her Work
Subject to Chance: Self-Reinvention in Poland under Stalinism
The Books We Read and the Roles We play: Meyerhold’s Seagull
Materials for a Biography: A Terrorist's Life (and Death)
A Typology of Russian History: Do we Schematize the Historical Process?
Thursday, March 31
The instability of vowel /a/ in the development of Vietnamese
Thursday, April 14
She Who Has Health, Has Hope: Women's Health in the Late 18th and 19th Centuries in Germany and the Netherlands
News
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Calin, the Maker
Dr. William Calin was honored at the May 2011 Medieval Conference at Kalamazoo, MI. A session on Makers of the Middle Ages was held in his honor, one scholar read a paper "Calin, the Maker," and he was presented a commemoration volume entitled Cahier Calin. Makers of the Middle Ages. Essays in Honor of William Calin. -
Correspondences between music and texts in French literature
Dr. Miriam Zach and Dr. Sylvie Blum are offering the following Honors course (spring 2012)Correspondences between music and texts in French literature [sub-title] : Textes et musiques. La littérature française à l’écoute de la musique.
The course introduces literary text and musical compositions that have been inspired and composed by major French literary writers and composers. The class goal is to stimulate an exchange between two disciplines that are not necessarily combined in the classroom. Through a selection of reading and listening, as well as analysis, the instructors will cover the correspondences between music and texts in 19th and 20th century France. Several genres will be covered: In literature, poetry, theatre, short novel, and novel, in music: opera, ballet, songs, piano solo and jazz.
Registration must be done through the Honors program at UF.
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 and Francophone Studies
- 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.
