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The Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at CUA is a dynamic community of teacher-scholars with widely varying backgrounds (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.
Located in NE Washington and an active member of the local university consortium, The Catholic University of America encourages its students to take advantage of the possibilities offered by this exciting and diverse community. In particular, close connections with international business organizations (International Monetary Fund, World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, Organization of American States, Pan American Health Organization) provide unique opportunities for student internships, hands-on learning, and professional development.
We invite you to join our international community in the pursuit of an educational mission that is as pragmatic as it is humanistic.