The Department of French and Italian

• ANNOUNCING USC'S NEW PHD
  IN FRENCH AND FRANCOPHONE STUDIES THROUGH CSLC!!!!

• New Dornsife Scholar!

  Congratulations Nicole!

  Nicole Cruz, a double major in Italian and Psychology with a minor in Chemistry. She is one of ten outstanding students to be designated a USC Dornsife Scholar upon her graduation from the Dornsife College.

  This is the highest recognition awarded by USC Dornsife to our graduates.

  It recognizes her outstanding contribution to the life of the College over the last several years. Her commitment to undergraduate research, overseas study, and service learning has set a very high standards for all students who earn undergraduate degrees at USC Dornsife.

  Nicole will be attending Vanderbilt University and will be earning a MA in Education from the Child Studies Program.

  We are so proud of you and your accomplishments!

• The Department of French and Italian, and the USC-Huntington EMSI Present:

  
  Tuesday, April 17, 2012, 4pm 

  Doheny Memorial Library, USC Friends of the Library Hall (DML 240)

  
  "Home Girls and Wild Men:
  Gendered Prints in Renaissance Costume Books
  (France and Italy 1560-1600 CE)."
  
  Professor Ann R. Jones, Smith College, Speaker.
  
  

  Please direct any questions to Dr. Margaret Rosenthal (French and Italian) at mrosenth@usc.edu or Amy Braden04172012talkAnnRJones.pdf (USC-Huntington EMSI) at abraden@usc.edu.

• DEPARTMENTAL OPEN HOUSE MARCH 29 12-3PM (WITH COMPARATIVE LITERATURE)

  DEPARTMENTAL OPEN HOUSE MARCH 29 12-3PM TAPER HALL 170

  Explore our majors while you meet and mingle with faculty, students and advisors. Pick up course descriptions, meet professors and learn more about the Department, its special events and resources.

• March 29, 2012 at 4pm in THH 170.

  March 29, 2012  at 4pm in THH 170.

  "La foi des traités"
  The Politics of Reading and Early Modern Tragedy
  
  by Professor Timothy Hampton,

  UC Berkeley.

  
  Presented by The Department of French & Italian and EMSI

  For further information, please contact Dr Antonia Szabari.

• Message from the Department Chair

  Welcome to the Department of French and Italian at the University of Southern California.

  Our faculty members are collectively committed to working across disciplinary and national boundaries—and indeed to rethinking disciplinarity itself in innovative ways.  As a department, we emphasize the global resonance of French and Italian Studies in addition to the impact of literature and film on cultural, political, social, and environmental contexts.  The interests of our faculty range across contemporary literary theory and philosophy, Francophone cinema and culture, Italian and French modernity, Renaissance intellectual and cultural life, and early modern thought and narrative.

   

• Vast Waters of the South Pacific

   

  The March 2012 issue of Poetry magazine will feature the poem "Sleep Log" written by Alain Borer and translated into English by Mark Irwin. Over the course of their friendship, the two USC Dornsife professors have translated each other's poetry into French and English.

  By Michelle Salzman
  February 29, 2012