Recent News

  • Two RLL Graduates win 2023 Fulbright Scholarships
    5/3/23
    RLL graduating senior and Presidential Scholar Emma Correia and RLL alum Alivia Smeltzer-Darling have won Fulbright awards to continue their studies abroad. Correia graduates in May with a double major in Spanish and linguistics;. Smeltzer-Darling is a 2021 graduate with a double major in Spanish and health and human services.
  • RLL Spanish Teaching Assistant Jamison García Ramírez wins 2023 Excellence in Teaching award
    4/25/23
    Jamison García Ramírez was one of seven Graduate Teaching Assistants honored April 20, 2023, at an award luncheon in the Buffalo Room. This annual Graduate School award recognizes graduate students who have demonstrated exceptional performance in the execution of their teaching responsibilities.
  • Students Welcomed into Pi Delta Phi, National French Honor Society
    5/10/23
    Sixteen UB students were welcomed into the Pi Delta Phi National French Honor Society for the 2022-2023 academic year. Pi Delta Phi recognizes outstanding scholarship in and support of the languages, literatures, and cultures of the French-speaking world.
  • Proust and Literary Experience: New for Fall 2022
    7/26/22
    RLL announces FR 526/COL 542 Proust and Literary Experience I for Fall 2022.
  • RLL Commencement Celebration 2022
    6/6/22
    The Department of Romance Languages and Literatures honored the graduation of undergraduate and graduate students with a celebration at UB's Center for Tomorrow, May 20, 2022. Class of 2020 alum Jaycee Miller spoke to the graduates' resilience, flexibility and determination to succeed throughout the pandemic, excellent preparation for life in the "real world."
  • RLL fetes the retirement of Margarita Vargas, associate professor of Spanish
    5/18/22
    The department honored Magui's 37 years of teaching, research and service to UB with a celebration May 16, 2022.