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The Department of French and Romance Philology
Welcome to the Department of French and Romance
Philology at Columbia University. Since its founding in 1890, the
Department has been a thriving point of contact for scholars from around
the world. Comprising distinguished professors with a broad range of
specializations related to French and Francophone literature and
culture, and consistently attracting some of the top graduate students
from around the globe, the Department continues to uphold its tradition
of dedication to teaching and cutting-edge research.
Undergraduate Research Fellowship 2017
The Center for French and Francophone Studies at Columbia University is pleased to announce the CFFS Undergraduate Research Fellowship. The fellowship is intended to support students majoring in the humanities or the social sciences pursuing research in France or a francophone country or region during the summer between their junior and senior years. Resources permit fellowships of up to $1500 to two juniors. For complete information please access the following link: Center for French and Francophone Studies Undergraduate Research Fellowship. |
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We are pleased to announce Pierre Force’s recently published work, Wealth and Disaster: Atlantic Migrations from a Pyrenean Town in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016), a transgenerational case study of two emigrants from the Pyrenees who settled as colonists in Saint-Domingue and whose white and mixed-race descendants were scattered across the Atlantic following the Haitian Revolution. The book tells a character-driven story of pirates, revolution, staggering riches, financial ruination, natural disaster, harsh imprisonment, and the rise and fall of the plantation economy. |
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Professor Eliza Zingesser having won The Michael I. Sovern/Columbia University Affiliated Fellowship, awarded by the Provost of Columbia University, will spend six weeks in residency at the American Academy in Rome beginning May 2017.
In addition, she has been awarded the Mellon Course Development Grant from the Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality for her course Reading and Writing the Body in the Francophone Middle Ages being taught fall 2016. |
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We are thrilled to announce the publication of the original English version of Phil Watts' book, Roland Barthes' Cinema, which includes nine translated texts written by Barthes about cinema, as well as an exclusive interview with Jacques Rancière. |
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