Senior Lecturer Patricia Mougel has been named Minnesota’s French Teacher of the Year by the American Association of Teachers of French (AATF), Minnesota Chapter.
Dr. Jennifer Row, Dr. Angela Carter, and Dr. Jessica Horvath Williams of the University of Minnesota's Critical Disability Studies Collective (CDSC) are featured in an article…
Prof. Frieda Ekotto, who earned her Ph.D. from our Dept., has just been elected 2nd Vice-President of the MLA (Modern Language Association). This means that in two years she…
I teach FREN 3014 French Phonetics, which is a course that helps students improve their pronunciation of French and acquire a more native-like accent. In the past, a lot of…
My first reaction to Zoom for remote learning was quite Proustian, as the name brought back memories of a TV show largely created by kids for kids on American public…
Professor Lock, who long taught French narrative in the Department, retired in the early eighties, after nearly twenty years of service to the department.
The University of Minnesota Twin Cities (TC) French and Morris Humanities programs are pleased to announce a new partnership for Fall 2020: an upper-division course taught in…
Separated by language and location, librarians Brian Vetruba and Sarah G. Wenzel nonetheless join as partners in an unusual librarian exchange between the University of…
Cookbooks, kitchens, and restaurants hide secret family recipes and the stories behind them. Deborah Lee-Ferrand unearths these secrets of food and culture in her PhD research…
Betsy Kerr is retiring after a 40-year career in the department of French & Italian. She reflects on teaching before and after the technological revolution, coordinating…
Joseph Rojas learned abroad in three countries and three languages. He discusses how his experiences in Brazil, Venezuela, and France informed his career path. “Adaptability…
