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Andrea Mirabile awarded Ragusa Foundation for the Humanities grant
Jul. 19, 2024—Andrea Mirabile, associate professor of Italian, has been awarded a Ragusa Foundation for the Humanities grant for his current project “Lucio Fontana: Immagini e parole.” Mirabile will be on research leave spring 2025 and will use the grant to work in archives in Milan.
2024 undergraduate prize winners
Apr. 23, 2024—The Class of 2024 was celebrated at a senior reception, where the following departmental awards were presented: The Gardner Prize: Chloe Hord and Cullen Allen The Book Prize, sponsored by the government of Quebec/French Embassy in the U.S.: Sam Curtis, Elliott de Boer, Warren Levy, Charlotte Mauger, Quinn Muscatel, Sofia Prieto, and Daniel Putnam The...
French Honors Society Pi Delta Phi Inducts 13 New Members
Mar. 4, 2024—On March 4th, 2024, the following French Undergraduate students were initiated into the French honor society, Pi Delta Phi: Alec Freedman Alexa Abrams Ava Hendrickson Cullen Allen Daniel Putnam Elliott de Boer Jordan (McKay) Lucas Madalyn Bergman Sofia Prieto William Parrack Yisu Yang Zoe Shulman Honorary Inductee: Professor Alexis Finet
Susan Kevra’s Article Appears in The Canadian Journal of Film Studies
Feb. 2, 2024—Principal Senior Lecturer in French and American Studies, Susan Kevra, published an article “The Man Who Changed the Climate: Frédéric Back’s Film Adaptation of The Man Who Planted Trees” in The Canadian Journal of Film Studies, Vol. 32, No. 2, Fall | Automne 2023 as part of a special issue on Climate Change and Cinema. Read...
Elsa Filosa Awarded Prize at MLA 2024
Jan. 5, 2024—The Modern Language Association of America awarded Elsa Filosa, assistant professor of the practice in Italian at Vanderbilt University, an honorable mention in the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Italian Studies for her book Boccaccio’s Florence: Politics and People in His Life and Work, published by the University of Toronto Press. The prize was...
Dan Church, professor emeritus, has died
Dec. 1, 2023—Dan Church, professor of French, emeritus, and former director of the Vanderbilt Language Lab, died October 9, 2023 in Nashville. He was 84. Church was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina in 1939 and grew up in North Wilkesboro and Statesville. He received his bachelor’s degree in French from Wake Forest University in 1961 and was...
French Faculty Recognized with TWLTA Awards
Nov. 25, 2023—Faculty members Becky Peterson and Virginia Scott (emerita) were recently honored by the Tennessee World Language Teachers Association. Professor Scott received a lifetime achievement award, and Becky Peterson won the Jacqueline Elliott prize for outstanding service to language education. 2023 Jacqueline Elliott Award Winner Becky Peterson is famous throughout the state of Tennessee for her...