French and Italian at UT...
The Department of French and Italian faculty and staff provide and support innovative, high quality teaching responsive to educational needs and interests of students through courses in pedagogy, language teaching, literary criticism, and cultural studies.
The department offers bachelors degrees in French and Italian. At the graduate level the department provides three subject tracks leading to masters and doctors degrees in French: French and Francophone Literature; French Linguistics; Romance Linguistics. Graduate courses in Italian support graduate degrees in other departments and cross-disciplinary offerings. Fall semester, 2009 will mark the beginning of a Graduate Program in Italian Studies at the University of Texas. Application deadline will be January 15, 2009.
Offices are located in Homer Rainey Hall (HRH) on 21st Street between the Harry Ransom Center and Benedict Hall. The building was originally the UT Music Building and was renamed in honor of former UT President Homer Rainey (1939-1944). The department shares this interesting 1950s Spanish Colonial style building with the Jessen Auditorium, and Liberal Arts Dean's Conference Room. Alice Hart's photograph (featured at the top of the navigation menu at left) looks across the Littlefield Fountain at the east end of the building.
Current News
Final Approval Received for Creation of New Italian Graduate Program
M.A. and Ph.D. to be offered in Italian Studies beginning Fall 2009
The Italian Studies Graduate Program at the University of Texas at Austin is a broad- based, interdisciplinary program designed to offer students maximum flexibility in course selection and choice of specialization.
French and Italian Student Award Ceremony
Friday, April 25, at 3:30, in the Santa Rita Room of the Texas Union
Outstanding students in French and Italian classes are recognized, from first semester through graduate level. In addition, scholarships are awarded to upper division and graduate students. Graduate students also receive recognition for outstanding teaching and for various, innovative contributions to the department.
Faculty member receives prestigious research grant
Marc Bizer honored
Associate Professor Marc Bizer has been awarded a Research Grant in the Senior Scholar category from the Renaissance Society of America for his project on "An Epic Longing: Homer and the Politics of Authority in Renaissance France."
Memorial Service for Professor Bob Dawson to be held November 17, 2007.
November 17, 2007. More details TBA. Please see the memorial website for further details.
It is with deep sadness we mourn the passing of Professor Robert L. Dawson, who died June 4, 2007, in Paris, France, at the age of 63.
A memorial service is scheduled for Saturday, November 17th at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin.
Please check the memorial website for further details.
CHRONOS 8 International Conference on Tense, Aspect, Mood, and Modality
October 2-5, 2008 The University of Texas at Austin
Dedicated to the memory of Prof. Carlota S. Smith (1934-2007)
CHRONOS is a series of biannual conferences devoted to current research on the morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics of markers of tense, aspect, mood, and modality. The conferences welcome presentations from scholars who approach linguistic research from different perspectives and embrace different theoretical frameworks. The current meeting will include a parasession in Romance languages.