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The Department of Romance Studies strives to create an atmosphere of intense intellectual engagement across linguistic and textual boundaries, and students are encouraged to take advantage of the wide array of on-campus lectures, events and resources available to them.
"I have been continuously drawn to the intersection between history and literature, that is, examining the cultural and political vestiges of French colonialism manifested in literary expression.
I am fortunate that Cornell supports an interdisciplinarity that has encouraged me to become a part of the Southeast Asia Program, in which I am concentrating my minor. My extension beyond the department has given me the opportunity to not only work with scholars in other fields, but also to foster my personal interests through extracurricular discussions on Asian-American identity, contemporary Vietnamese studies, and creative writing."
Click here to read about our current graduate students in the Department of Romance Studies.
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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