Recent News

  • Zengierski Family Lectures in Honor of Genevieve and Leon Zengierski in Spanish Literature and Culture, Spring 2021
    8/6/26
    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
    1/14/25
    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.
  • Colleen Culleton Wins Award for Undergraduate Teaching and Mentoring
    11/15/19
    Associate Professor of Spanish and Catalan Studies Colleeen Culleton was honored with the UB President Emeritus and Mrs Meyerson Award for Distinguished  Undergraduate Teaching and Mentoring at the Sixteenth Annual Celebration of Faculty and Staff Academic Excellence held on October 31, 2019.
  • Perec en Amérique reviewed on Acta Fabula
    9/23/19
    Congratulations are due to RLL Distinguished Professor of French and Melodia E. Jones Chair Jean-Jacques Thomas, whose recent book, Perec en Amérique, has just been extensively reviewed in the September 2019 issue of Acta Fabula, the prestigious webzine for information on French and Francophone literature and art.
  • Elizabeth Scarlett takes on new role with MLA
    8/21/19
    Professor of Spanish Elizabeth Scarlett has accepted a three-year appointment to the MLA's  Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize Selection Committee. Since 1989 this prize has been awarded annually for an outstanding book in English or Spanish in the field of Latin American and Spanish literatures and cultures. The committee may review as many as thirty-five to forty-five books as part of the selection process.  We congratulate Professor Scarlett on her achievement!