The Early Romance area within the Department



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From the Department homepage:

“To have another language is to possess a second soul.”

These words, spoken by Charlemagne, King of the Franks, more than 1200 years ago, could not ring truer in today’s interconnected societies.

In the context of UBC’s commitment towards a global citizenship, the Department of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies plays a pivotal role by adding to the curriculum of more than 4,000 undergraduate students the richness of the languages, literatures, films, cultures and civilizations of Canada, France, Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America, Spain, Italy and Portugal. It is also an important centre for research with its faculty members engaging in ground-breaking work and publishing in international venues, and with its 50 graduate students pursuing M.A. and PhD programs in French and in Spanish with a specialization in Literature or Linguistics.

Our research and teaching strengths lie in an in-depth coverage of various fields as well as in an interdisciplinary approach, both within the department (Romance Studies) and with other units and programs: Arts OneCanadian StudiesComparative LiteratureEducation, European StudiesFoundationsHistoryMedieval StudiesLatin American Studies19th Century Studies, and Women’s Studies.

(André Lamontagne, Department Head)

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CURRENT COURSES IN THIS AREA (2009-10)

FREN 220 Introduction to Early French Literature and to Textual Analysis
FREN 320 Advanced Studies in French Literature from 1000 to 1700
FREN 321 Advanced Studies in French Literature from 1700 to the Present
FREN 407 Studies in Medieval French Literature
FREN 409C Studies in French Literature of the Seventeenth Century
FREN 495R Research Seminar in French
FREN 498 Directed Reading
FREN 499 Honours Essay
FREN 512B Studies in Literary Criticism
FREN 520A Studies in French Literature S
FREN 576A Studies in Gallo-Romance Dialectology
FREN 578B Studies in Romance Philology
FREN 599A Master’s Thesis
FREN 599B Master’s Thesis
FREN 699 Doctoral Dissertation
ITAL 303 Italian Literature and Culture of the Medieval and Early Modern Period
ITAL 403 Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy
ITST 231 Introduction to Italian Culture I: From the Middle Ages to the Early Modern Period
ITST 413 Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy in Translation
RMST 221 Literatures and Cultures of the Romance World I: Medieval to Early Modern
SPAN 357 Survey of Peninsular Literature and Culture from the Origins to 1700
SPAN 358 Survey of Peninsular Literature and Culture from 1700 to the Present
SPAN 364 Survey of Spanish-American Literature and Culture to the 1820s
SPAN 410 Medieval Literature
SPAN 470 Selected Topics in Spanish-American Colonial and Nineteenth-Century Literature
SPAN 499 Honours Essay
SPAN 500 Seminar in Hispanic Studies
SPAN 501 Theoretical Approaches to Literature
SPAN 520 Golden-Age Literature
SPAN 548 Graduating Essay
SPAN 549 Master’s Thesis
SPAN 570 Spanish-American Colonial Literature
SPAN 649 Doctoral Dissertation

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A number of faculty members and graduate students in the Department have research interests that include pre-1800 language, literature, and culture in the Romance-group languages; but whose work is not necessarily exclusively or primarily in the area. The Early Romance is, indeed, one of the Department’s major areas of activity.

FACULTY

ÁLVAREZ MORENO Raúl
BEAUCHESNE Kim
BOCCASSINI Daniela
CASTONGUAY-BÉLANGER Joël
CURAT Hervé
FRELICK Nancy
HODGSON Richard
O’BRIEN Juliet
PHAN Chantal

GRADUATE STUDENTS

ÁLVAREZ Alejandro
CHUNG Lawrence
EDINGER Monika
GRILLO Maria Teresa
KRAUS Amie
LEPAGE Elise
LINAN Kathryn
LUSHCHENKO Marina
OÑATE Susa
OSEGUEDA Ximena
ROMENGO Margherita

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Image: Raphael, The School of Athens (1509-11).
The Vatican.
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