Recent News

  • 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.
  • Students initiated into Sigma Delta Pi, National Collegiate Spanish Honor Society
    5/17/22
    On Friday, May 13, 2022, initiation was conducted for ten students whose academic achievement and commitment to Spanish qualified them to join Sigma Delta Pi, the National Collegiate Honor Society for Spanish.
  • RLL/Linguistics Student Language Research Celebration May 6, 2022
    4/25/22
    Join the departments of Romance Languages and Literatures and Linguistics to celebrate your language and linguistics projects! We invite undergraduate students to present brief presentations (10-15 minutes) on topics related to language in any way, with a focus on honors theses, term projects, independent studies, and collaborative projects.
  • RLL announces Summer 2022 online elementary Portuguese classes
    4/21/22
    RLL announces the addition of two new online courses to its Summer 2022 schedule, Portuguese 101 (May 31-July 8) and Portuguese 102 I July 11-August 19).
  • RLL Women's History Month Presentation March 29, 2022
    3/28/22
    Terza Silva Lima-Neves, professor of political science and chair of the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Johnson C. Smith University , North Carolina, offers a lecture on the book that she published last year, "Kriolas poderozas: Cabo-Verdean women writing, remembrance, resistance and revolution." Prof. Lima-Neves will also visit with students to discuss her scholarship and teaching, and share advice from her personal experiences as a Cabo-Verdean woman in the United States.