Romance Languages & Literatures

The Department of Romance Languages and Literatures (RL&L) is a cornerstone of the Humanities at Wesleyan and the university’s gateway to the French-, Italian-, Portuguese-, and Spanish-speaking worlds. We represent literary and cultural traditions that extend from the Middle Ages to the present.  We teach languages, literatures and cultures that span Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas. Our students develop and apply their knowledge and skills through the extracurricular activities and study abroad opportunities that we promote. Through a network of collaborations across departments and divisions, we support a wide array of majors, academic programs and initiatives.

Event Calendar

Friday, February 01, 2019

Lecture:Lina del Castillo, Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Texas at Austin, Crafting a Republic for the World: Scientific, Geographic, and Historiographic Inventions of Colombia

Romance Languages Highwaymen Common Room (Romance Languages)

Thursday, February 28, 2019

For the Love of Bach 4

Memorial Chapel Memorial Chapel

Campus News

Shapiro Featured in Poetry Magazine Better Than Starbucks!
Four poems, translated by Distinguished Professor of Literary Translation and Poet in Residence Norman Shapiro, appear in the November 2018 Vol. III edition of the international esoteric journal, Better Than Starbucks!. This poetry magazine is edited by American poet and translator Michael Burch. The poem below, titled “You …” is translated from the French of Cécile Périn…

Curran Receives French Academy of Sciences Book Prize
Andrew Curran, the William Armstrong Professor of the Humanities, has received the 2018 Prix Monsieur et Madame Louis Marin from the Académie des sciences d’outre-mer for his 2017 book L’Anatomie de la noirceur [The Anatomy of Blackness], which was published by Classiques Garnier. This prize, which is given by the French Académie des Sciences d’outre-mer, recognizes…

Jackson Translates Second Play from Brazilian Playwright Newton Moreno

Jackson Translates Second Play from Brazilian Playwright Newton Moreno
A play translated by Elizabeth Jackson, adjunct associate professor of Portuguese, was performed at Yale Cabaret Oct. 25–27. The play, titled “Agreste (Drylands),” is a Brazilian tale of love and loss, desire and death, ignorance and violence, written by Brazilian playwright Newton Moreno. Based on true events, “Drylands” is a poetic narrative set in Brazil’s suffocating and…


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Contacts

Chair
Andrew Curran
acurran@wesleyan.edu

French Section Head
Jeff Rider
jrider@wesleyan.edu

Italian Section Head
Ellen Nerenberg
enerenberg@wesleyan.edu

Spanish Section Head
Olga Sendra Ferrer
osendra@wesleyan.edu

Portuguese Language
Elizabeth Jackson
ejackson@wesleyan.edu

Romance Studies Section Head
Andrew Curran
acurran@wesleyan.edu

Honors in RLL
Michael Meere
mmeere@wesleyan.edu

 

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