The Catholic University of America

Modern Languages-Chinese Class

Welcome to the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures

There are many reasons to study other languages and cultures. By studying literary and cultural values, both past and present, we gain important insights into ourselves and others that enable us to confront the intellectual, social, and political challenges of the future. From a purely practical standpoint, knowledge of languages and cultures will provide a competitive edge in the increasingly globalized and complex workplace of the 21st century.

The Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at CUA is a dynamic community of teacher-scholars with widely varying backgrounds (Arabic, Chinese, Italian, German, Spanish, French, American, Latin-American, etc.), interests, and theoretical approaches. While remaining grounded in a broadly humanistic tradition of intellectual inquiry and scholarship, we are committed to opening a dialogue with other disciplines--including CUA programs such as Philosophy, Media Studies, History, Comparative Literature, Semitic Languages and Literatures, Classics, and Medieval Studies--and with the consortium and intellectual community at large. In our classrooms and research, we thus seek to combine a solid foundation in national literatures with the interdisciplinary pursuit of new fields of investigation.

 

QUICK LINKS

 Spanish  for Health Care Certificate Program

 European Studies

  Islamic World Studies 

 

FACULTY HIGHLIGHTS

AWARDS:

Prof. Grimbert has been named "Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques". 

PUBLICATIONS: 

  • Prof. Stefania Lucamante : Quella difficile identita’: Ebraismo e rappresentazioni letterarie della Shoah. Iacobelli: 2012. 
  • Prof. Claudia Bornholdt: “’Everyone thought it very strange how the man had been shaped’: The Hero and His Physical Traits in the Riddarasögur.” In Arthuriana: Special Issue on Old Norse-Icelandic Arthurian Literature 22 (2012): 18-38.
  • Prof. Damiani: Narrativas humanísticas. Roma: Edizioni Nuova Cultura, 2011.

 INVITED LECTURES:

  • Prof. Kassen: Writing Together with Wikis, presented at World Languages Experience, Arlington, VA, Feb. 10, 2012 and Tampa, FL, Feb. 17, 2002
  • Prof. Kassen: Transitioning to Hybrid Language Instruction, presented at the University of Delaware, Newark, Del, Mar. 6. 2012
  •  Prof. Stefania Lucamante: “Post-Unification Politics and the Politics of Food.” Princeton University, Department of French and Italian, December 6, 2011.

PAPER PRESENTED:

  • Prof. Juanita Aristizábal: “Through Routes and Ruins: Manaus’ Fleeting Modernity”. Panel: Crisis in the Amazon. The American Comparative Literature Association’s 2012 Annual Meeting, Brown University, Providence, RI.
  • Prof. Margaret Ann Kassen: “Transitioning to Hybrid Language Instruction.” University of Delaware, Newark, Del, March 6, 2012.

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