Recent News

  • Glossolalia event scheduled for April 29, 2022
    4/4/22
    Glossolalia celebrates language in all its fascinating forms and functions! Language students from across UB will present or perform their language projects achievements in a day-long event devoted to the glory of the spoken, written and enacted word.
  • RLL announces Spring 2022 Black History Month Programming
    4/28/22
    The Department of Romance Languages and Literatures announces its Spring 2022 lineup of Black History Month events.
  • Adrián Riccelli and Colleen Balukas receive UB DSSN Enabling Grant
    12/1/21
    Dr. Adrián Riccelli and Dr. Colleen Balukas, along with a team of graduate and undergraduate student collaborators, have received a $2000 Enabling Grant from UB’s Digital Scholarship Studio and Network (DSSN). The grant supports their research into Spanish grammatical variation, with a focus on how and why Spanish speakers show variable patterns in their use of the complementizer ‘que’ (‘that’).
  • UB Now: Mame-Fatou Niang demonstrates international scope of Black Lives Matter
    11/3/21
     Mame-Fatou Niang's Fall 2021 FR 482 seminar "Rethinking Universalism" is featured in the November 3, 2021 edition of UB Now.
  • Professor of Spanish David Castillo Co-PI on NSF planning grant
    9/27/21
    Prof. David Castillo, Professor of Spanish and UB Humanities Institute Director, is Co-PI on a $750,000 NSF Planning Grant addressing the topic of disinformation. The investigation dovetails with Prof. Castillo's most recent book, "Undeceptions: Cervantine Strategies for the Disinformation Age."
  • Latinx Heritage at the Intersections of Culture and Crisis
    11/3/21
    Latinx Heritage Month (September 15-October 15) is an important symbolic gesture at the national level. It signifies that we Latinxs are present in the social, cultural, and political life of the United States, even as we continue to face discrimination and racism. We fully intend this series of conversations to make a statement that we Latinxs are here at the University at Buffalo, and we are ready to serve as a bridge between UB and the Hispanic communities of Buffalo/Niagara and beyond.