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Why did medieval readers kiss, smudge and deface their books?

May 13, 2025

Le Cercle Français President, Asher Cohen, Named University Medalist

May 8, 2025

New Hildebrand Fellow Erin Dunbar Studies Multilingualism in 19th-century Québécois Literature

April 23, 2025

French Job and Internship Fair a Success!

April 23, 2025

Professor Debarati Sanyal awarded Major Mellon Grant for “A Counter-Imaginary in Authoritarian Times”

January 31, 2025

Illuminating Language: Liesl Yamaguchi on Synesthesia, Translation, and the Poetics of Modernity

January 29, 2025

Exploring Identity and Interdisciplinarity: A Conversation with Kévin Drif on French Media, Migration, and Cultural Hybridity

December 4, 2024

Professor Liesl Yamaguchi publishes On the Colors of Vowels: Thinking through Synesthesia

December 2, 2024
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