Recent News

  • RLL mourns the passing of alum Ezequiel (Ziggy) Ruiz
    3/15/21
    It is with great sadness that RLL shares the passing of alumnus Ezequiel Luis Ruiz. Ziggy succumbed to Covid 19 on December 14, 2020.
  • "How does a world come to its end?" A presentation by Jean Luc Nancy
    3/24/21
    Please join us on Thursday April 15, 2021, at 12:00 pm EDT for a virtual presentation by Jean Luc Nancy, philosopher and Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Strasbourg, and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Chair at the European Graduate School, Saas-Fee, Switzerland. Juan Manuel Garrido Wainer, Professor of Philosophy, Universidad Alberto Hurtada, Santiago, Chile, will provide commentary following.
  • RLL Announces Black Histories Matter/Black Lives Matter Programming
    3/9/21
    The Department of Romance Languages and Literatures announces its Spring 2021 virtual lineup of Black Histories Matter and Black Lives Matter events.
  • Zengierski Family Lectures in Spanish Literature and Culture, Spring 2021
    4/7/21
    RLL presents a four-part series of presentations examining various aspects of the poet and playwright Federico García Lorca (1898-1936), his contemporaries, and his legacy. Born in the Spanish province of Granada, Lorca combines a championing of the socially marginalized, avant-garde experimentation, and reworking of Andalusian and Roma traditions such as flamenco. Assassinated near the start of the Spanish Civil War, his remains have never been found, putting him at the center of unresolved historical memory issues.
  • RLL announces Spring 2021 Haitian Kreyol courses
    12/28/20
    The Department of Romance Languages and Literatures is offering beginning and intermediate levels of online asynchronous Kreyol language instruction to accommodate students' scholastic and/or work schedules. Periodic individual or group meetings (by appointment) with the instructor are required.
  • RLL Alumna Selected for Prestigious Fulbright Award
    12/1/20
    Lilian Macancela, a spring 2020 UB graduate with a BA in Social Sciences Interdisciplinary, a concentration in Legal Studies and a minor in Italian, has been selected for a Fulbright award to Italy October 2021-June 2022.