Recent News

  • 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.
  • 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.