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In a recent Le Monde op-ed, Professor Benjamin Hoffmann examines the controversy surrounding writer Thélyson Orélien and the accusations that his novel was produced with the help of…
STILSA is an international education program that offers paid, career-building or credit-earning experiential learning opportunities for Ohio State STEM students. Dr. Patrice Hamel, a professor of…
Kickstart Kreyòl, designed by French and francophone studies Assistant Professor Ryan Joyce, is entering its second year with a mission to expand Haitian Creole language education…
Languages have been an integral part of Elena Past’s life, guiding her upbringing, education and eventual career in higher education. Now, as the incoming chair for the Department…
We are pleased to announce that Dr. Lucille Toth will serve as Interim Director of the Newark Earthworks Center, effective July 1.
Read more on Earthworks!
Her program On Board(hers) was recognized for demonstrating excellence in community engagement and high-impact practices.
Dr. Lucille Toth, Associate Professor in Newark, has received the 6-Year Distinguished STEP Faculty Mentor Award, recognizing exceptional excellence in advancing STEP's…
FRIT was proudly represented at Newark’s 22nd Annual Student Research and Scholarship Forum by four exceptional students whose work highlights the department’s commitment to…
Deborah Idowu, a first-year French and Francophone Studies PhD student in the Department of French and Italian at The Ohio State University, has been named co-winner of the prestigious…
The Department of French and Italian and French Center of Excellence were pleased to celebrate our own Benjamin Hoffmann, College of Arts and Sciences Designated Professor of French Literature,…
Thirteen students in Italian 3222, Modern Italian Media (Professor Qian Liu), visited Thompson Library’s Special Collections to explore rare materials on Italian Futurism and its global…
The Department of French and Italian is thrilled to share Professor Lucille Toth's co-edited volume, Embodied Narratives in the Health Humanities and Literary Studies,…
The French Center of Excellence was pleased to host visiting Professor André Leblanc to discuss his current research on a project entitled Modernity of Madame de Staël and the Coppet Group…
Dr. Lucille Toth, Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies, recently collaborated with Latinx students at the University of Texas at San Antonio through her creative research project …
On October 9th, CSCC Executive Chef Reese Flowers (Degrees Restaurant) visited the students of FRIT 3061: Mediterranean Food Cultures to talk all about pesto. After the students were primed to…
Students in Italian 5330 took a field trip across the Oval to Thompson Library to peruse the rare manuscripts collection. Many don't realize how amazing the collection of Medieval and Renaissance…
The French Center of Excellence hosted its first guest, University of Indiana at Bloomington Professor of French, Nicolas Valazza, for the Autumn 2025 semester on October 9 in Thompson Library…
In French 4401 “Le Féérique et le fantastique” we have been reading “contes de fées” (fairy tales) by sophisticated writers of the period 1690-1757, many of them women. Cinderella’s science…
Professor Ryan Joyce is participating in the inaugural Engaged Scholars Academy, organized by Ohio State’s Office of Outreach and Engagement. Over the course of the year, the Academy convenes to…
Dr. Maggie Flinn, Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies, was recently honored as a recipient of the prestigious Will Eisner Award for Best Academic/Scholarly Work. Professor Flinn…
The Department of French and Italian is excited to announce Dr. Benjamin Hoffmann, College of Arts and Sciences Designated Professor of French Literature, has been named a Fellow of the Royal…
Our own Dr. Maggie Flinn, Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies and Film Studies has been shortlisted for Comics Studies Society Best Edited Book shortlist and for…
Professor Ryan Joyce recently appeared on the radio live from Martinique, where he organized two conferences on the visibility and invisibility of queer and feminist experiences, expressions, and…
The Department of French and Italian celebrated our academic year 2025 graduates, including 6 graduate students taking MAs or PhDs as well as numerous majors and minors, on May 3 in Hagerty Hall…
On April 1, 2025, the French Center of Excellence and Wexner Center for the Arts co-hosted a series of events dedicated to honoring and exploring French and Francophone culture and language as a…
The French Center of Excellence and Department of French and Italian hosted Dr. Loïc Bourdeau on April 3 to discuss his research in narrative medicine. Dr. Bourdeau's talk, entitled #Ob…
The French Center of Excellence and Department of French and Italian hosted a conversation between Dr. Mauro Cazzolla and Professor Jonathan Combs-Schilling on Thursday, April 17 to analyze some…
We are pleased to announce Professor Lucille Toth's OnBoard(hers) documentary, produced in 2021, has been selected as part of the 2025 Columbus International Film Festival on April 26 in the…
The Department of French and Italian was pleased to host French cartoonist Jessica Oublié on Thursday, March 27 for a review and discussion of her new book Toxic Tropics.
The French Center of Excellence and Department of French and Italian hosted Professor Chase Cormier for this year's Jules Verne Lecture in Creative Writing on March 17, 2025 at Thompson Library…
The French Center of Excellence was honored to host Yale University Associate Professor of French, Morgane Cadieu, on February 3. Professor Cadieu gave a talk in Thompson Library on her most…
Benjamin Hoffmann, College of Arts & Sciences Designated Professor of French Literature, has been named Chevalier of the Order of Academic Palmes. This prestigious French honor, founded in 1808,…
This lecture examines the historical and contemporary systemic exclusions impacting the authentic representation of Black American Music (BAM). Focusing on the perspectives of Nicholas Payton, a…
The Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies will host its annual symposium on Friday, February 21 and the morning of Saturday, February 22. This event brings together six scholars from OSU and…
The French Center of Excellence is proud to announce its Spring 2025 lecture and programming series. The following events are free and open to the public. Please register using the links below.
“HIP HOP is a gateway to our youth…music influences their decisions, what clothes they wear, what they want to be as an adult and even the food choices they make. I connect this culture and…
Chay Robert Rossing is a graduating senior on track for degrees in Philosophy with a Minor in LGBTQ+ Studies; Religious Studies; and French and Francophone Studies. Under research mentor, Dr. Dana…
The Wexner Center for the Arts will host a French film festival by Jean-Luc Godard in January 2025.
This special series offers three chances to see Godard’s final works paired each night…
Research shows people who speak another language are more utilitarian and flexible, less risk-averse and egotistical, and better able to cope with traumatic memories
Andrea Sims, Professor in the Department of Linguistics, will give a lecture on November 20 entitled "Modeling trees, theorizing forests: From local to system-level linguistic organization."
Designated Arts & Sciences Professor of French Literature Benjamin Hoffmann recently published a new edition of De l'Esprit des lois. Congratulations, Professor Hoffmann!
“Murakame” by Benjamin Hoffman, College of Arts and Sciences Designated Professor of French and Francophone Literature, has been published in the Fall 2024 issue…
The family of Albert N. Mancini, Professor and Director of the Italian Language Program at Ohio State 1965-2001, have established a fund in his honor. It will support an annual lecture on Italian…
The English translation of Professor Benjamin Hoffmann’s prize-winning novel Sentinel Island has just appeared with Liverpool University Press, translated by Alan J…
The Old French Reading group meets weekly on Tuesdays at 8:00pm to read aloud and discuss medieval French texts with facing-page translation. No prior experience necessary. Please contact…
This recent US News and World Report article discusses why majoring in the humanities can be a good career move.
A 2021 report says” Economically, arts and culture contribute 4.5% of U.S…
Celebrating the retirement of beloved Professor Danielle Marx-Scouras!
She has been such a strong voice in the field of Francophone Studies. Her dedicated and lively teaching and advising has…
FRIT was delighted to host our first annual Department Soirée des talents / Serata dei talenti on Monday, November 13. We had a slate of French & Italian students and faculty display their passion…
The French Center of Excellence, Department of French & Italian, and OSU Newark were delighted to host Kévi Donat on Tuesday, September 19 for his lecture in this year's French Center of…
Congratulations to Drs. Anne Mutidjo and Cindy Jiang for being selected as two of ten participants in the 2023 Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) community!
The Old French Reading Group will gather once again for the Autumn 2023 semester on Tuesday evenings. Meet to read aloud in Medieval French and learn about the language and culture -- for…
The Center for Languages, Literatures and Cultures (CLLC) committee conducted virtual reality experiences and grammar exercises with intermediate level Italian students in the spring of 2023. The…
We celebrated our French, Italian, & Romance Studies graduates with a ceremony and reception on May 5th in Hagerty Hall. We are so proud of our FRIT graduates and wish them such luck as they go…
PhD student, Thierno Diallo, was awarded OSU's Graduate Associate Teaching Award, which is OSU's highest recognition of the exceptional teaching provided by Graduate Teaching Associates. The…
Professor Danielle Marx-Scouras and her French 3103 Conversation class at La Chatelaine on April 15 and 16.
Based on a play by Victor Hugo, Verdi's Rigoletto explores dueling elements of power, charisma, toxicity, and moral dignity. Experience the thrilling story for yourself during Rigoletto on March…
Associate Professor Benjamin Hoffmann will present his latest novel, “L’île de la Sentinelle”, at the upcoming Festival des Littératures Atlantide in Nantes, France. Each year, this festival…
Lucille Toth, assistant professor of French-Newark, has just published her first book, Danses et pandémies: Du sida à la covid-19 (Varia Press, Dec. 2022). An English translation is forthcoming.…
On December 13 of this semester, Samuel Palazzo, who is a History major and Italian minor and has taken a number of courses in Italian, including four with me (and a fifth this coming spring!),…
Congratulations to Associate Professor Benjamin Hoffmann, who has won an award for his new novel L’Ile de la Sentinelle - the “2022 Love-at-First-Sight Laureate Prize” from the Le Mans …
Janice Aski, professor in the Department of French and Italian, has been promoted from interim director to full director of the Center for Languages, Literatures and Cultures for…
Associate Professor of French Benjamin Hoffmann presented his new novel L'île de la Sentinelle on French national TV on "L'essentiel chez Labro"! Check out the video.
You can also…
Professor Marx-Scouras's spring 2022 class French 5403: “Minor Art” from Gainsbourg to Stromae: Popular Music as a Political Act allowed students to engage with French and Francophone music…
Congratulations to Professor Jonathan Combs-Schilling, who was recently promoted to Associate Professor!
Combs-Schilling’s principal field of research and teaching is Medieval and…
Congratulations to Lucille Toth on winning the 2022 Best New Undergraduate Mentor Award! Toth is an Assistant Professor of French at OSU-Newark, affiliated with Ohio State Dance department. She…
A huge thank you to FRIT's Wynne Wong and Québec Government Office in Chicago for organizing "Mental Health and Music: An Evening with Quebec's Polyglot Florence K" on April 13th. Over 200 people…
Congratulations to Sarah-Grace Heller, who has been appointed by Interim Executive Dean David Horn as Department Chair of the Department of French and Italian! Heller will begin her four year term…
Over the weekend of March 18-19, Assistant Professor of Italian Jonathan Combs-Schilling, who specializes in Medieval and Renaissance Italian Literature, was invited to join the Columbus Symphony…
Congratulations to FRIT's Lucille Toth, Assistant Professor of French, and Maggie Flinn, Associate Professor of French, for recently winning substantial A&H Grants for their respective research…
Sarah-Grace Heller, an associate professor of French, specializes in medieval French and Occitan literature, language and material culture. Her most recent book is a cultural…
Professor of French Danielle Marx-Scouras was featured in the Arts and Sciences Faculty Spotlight. She talks about her teaching, research, and her advice to students!
The French consulate in Chicago seeks an intern. Questions can be directed to Bérangère Travard, Consule générale adjointe / Deputy Consul General.
Congratulations to Associate Professor of French Benjamin Hoffmann, on the publication of his newest novel L'île de la Sentinelle.
Hoffmann shared his inspiration for this project:…
Lizzie Chung, a student we know from our French Language Program classes, will graduate at 18 from Ohio State Lima with a Bachelor's Degree in Biology and and from Delphos Jefferson High School in…
The Department of French and Italian is hiring Associated Faculty in French and Italian! Applications are open for three full-time, non-tenure-track lecturers in the…
Dean of Arts and Humanities and Professor of Italian Dana Renga was interviewed by to the prestigious French journal, Le Monde, in which she discusses her research on mafia movies.
The application deadline for the 2022-2023 Teaching Assistant Program in France has been extended by two weeks until January 31st, 2022.
Apply and learn more on TAPIF website.
Congratulations to Emeritus Professor of Italian Charles Klopp on his new publication! Published by Agincourt Press, One Year of School and The Island is a volume that presents…
The Teaching Assistant Program in France offers you the opportunity to work in France for 7 months, teaching English to French students of all ages. Each year, over 1,500 American citizens and…
The Department of French and Italian is giving away free tickets to the Polo & Pan Concert that will take place at the Newport Music Hall on December 7th, 2021!
Giveaway Info The Band…