RLL at UB

What are the Romance languages?

All Romance languages share a common historical origin in the Latin language, which spread across the Roman Empire, evolving into French, Italian, Spanish and several others.

In the UB Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, our faculty and instructors teach courses that span the fields of language study, literary and textual studies, culture and civilization, linguistics, film and media studies, intellectual history and visual culture. Undergraduate students can complete much of the UB Curriculum with our courses, while paving the way for a major or minor. Graduate students receive advanced training in research and methodology as well as substantive fields of expertise, with in-depth seminars and the production of original contributions to knowledge.

Fields of Study

French

7/26/18

With over 220 million speakers worldwide, French is the sixth most common spoken language. It is an official language in 29 countries, ranging from Switzerland and Morocco to Vietnam and Canada.

Italian

3/12/18

The fourth most studied in the world, Italian is one of the official languages of the European Union, as well as the language of great writers such as Dante and Machiavelli.

Spanish

3/14/19

Spanish is not only the official language of Spain, but also Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean islands of Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic and most of South America.

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Justin Read, PhD

924 Clemens Hall

Phone: (716) 645-0878

jread2@buffalo.edu

Chair

Associate Professor

Department of Romance Languages and Literatures

College of Arts and Sciences

Scholarly Interests: Urbanization and Modernization of Latin America since 1850; Space, Place and Political Subjectivity, focused primarily on Argentina, Brazil and Mexico; 19th and 20th century Latin American literature and culture; Critical theory; Poetics; Modernism and Avant-Garde

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924 Clemens Hall

Phone: (716) 645-0878

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Amy Graves Monroe, PhD

931 Clemens Hall

Phone: (716) 645-0880

acgraves@buffalo.edu

Associate Professor

Director of Graduate Studies

Department of Romance Languages and Literatures

College of Arts and Sciences

Scholarly Interests: Wars of Religion; Print Culture and History of the Book; Early Modern Philosophy and Political Thought; Satire and Irony; Intellectual History and Literary Theory

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931 Clemens Hall

Phone: (716) 645-0880

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Maureen Jameson, PhD

901 Clemens Hall

Phone: (716) 645-0860

jameson@buffalo.edu

Associate Professor

Director of Undergraduate Studies

Department of Romance Languages and Literatures

College of Arts and Sciences

Scholarly Interests: 19th, 20th and 21st century French literature and society; Digital Humanities; French history; Cognitive Science; Science and society

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901 Clemens Hall

Phone: (716) 645-0860

jameson@buffalo.edu

Barbara Avila-Shah, PhD

910 Clemens Hall

Phone: (716) 645-0867

bia@buffalo.edu

Language Coordinator, Adjunct Assistant Professor in Spanish

Department of Romance Languages and Literatures

College of Arts and Sciences

Scholarly Interests: Sociolinguistics in Caribbean Spanish; Second language acquisition and teaching; Spanish for heritage speakers; Linguistics; Sociolinguistics; Caribbean Spanish

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910 Clemens Hall

Phone: (716) 645-0867

bia@buffalo.edu