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The Department of Romance Studies gives voice to the literatures and cultures of those parts of the world where French, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish are or have been spoken.
Your support enables the Department of Romance Studies to enhance the experience for undergraduate and graduate students and contribute to faculty excellence. Gifts can help fund lectures and conferences, faculty and student research, distinguished speakers, field trips, and other Department priorities. Please consider a donation to either the unrestricted gifts fund or the endowment gifts fund.
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A mainstay of the Department of Russian Literature from 1977 until his retirement after the department closed in 2010, Senderovich oversaw the establishment of a comprehensive graduate program in Russian literature, expanding Cornell’s graduate offerings in the field.
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Projects spanned topics from Confederate cemeteries to Korean textiles.
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Kaila Hall is majoring in government & French.
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Parker Piccolo Hill is majoring in English and Italian.
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Salvatore Brancato is majoring in Biology & Society and Spanish.
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Salma Rebhi, doctoral candidate in Romance studies, is among Cornell’s Bouchet scholars inducted at the annual Yale Bouchet Conference on Graduate Education.
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A conference May 5-7, “The Biopolitics of Global Health After Covid-19,” will combine biopolitical and anthropological inquiry to spark a cross-disciplinary dialogue about (post-) pandemic discourses and practices of global health.
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