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Hannah Frydman's book receives honorable mention for the 2024-25 Laurence Wylie Prize in French Cultural Studies

October 08, 2026

Prof. Hannah Frydman has been awarded an honorable mention for the 2024-25 Laurence Wylie Prize in French Cultural Studies for her book, Between the Sheets: Sexuality, Classified Advertising, and the Moral Threat to Press Freedom in France (Cornell UP...

RLL's Hannah Frydman Announced as New Member of the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study

June 24, 2026

Hannah Frydman has been announced as a member of the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study in Fall 2026 where she will be working on her second book project, "Queer History's Fictions." Congratulations!

RLL’s Adán Ramírez-Figueroa Awarded the Nancy F. Marino Prize

May 20, 2026

Please join us in congratulating RLL’ s Adán Ramírez-Figueroa for being awarded the Nancy F. Marino prize! He won with the paper, “’Las del buen amor son rraçones encobiertas’: On the Provenance of Manuscript T of the Libro de Buen Amor” The selection of...

Walter Channing Cabot Fellowship awarded to RLL's Luis Girón Negrón!

May 13, 2026

Please join us in congratulating professor Luis Girón Negrón! He has been awarded a Walter Channing Cabot Fellowship for the academic year 2025-2026 in recognition of his achievements and scholarly eminence in the fields of “literature, history or art, as...

LASA Awards Best Article in the Humanities to RLL's Alejandra Vela Martinez!

May 04, 2026

Congratulations to Alejandra for her article "Elena Garro's Gambit: The Politics of a Female Writer's Intimate Archive (1935-1998)" being recognized as this year's Best Article in the Humanities by the Latin American Studies Association-Mexico Section...

RLL's Nicole Mills awarded Anya Bernstein Bassett Prize!

April 29, 2026

From the dean of the OUE: “I write with the happy news that you have been awarded the Anya Bernstein Bassett Prize for Excellence in Teaching, which recognizes outstanding undergraduate teaching by non-ladder faculty. Your commitment to fostering an...

A Month on the Road: Dr. Claire-Marie Brisson Brings Francophone North America to Five Stages

April 02, 2026

In March 2026, Claire-Marie Brisson, Preceptor in French in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, crisscrossed the continent as a featured speaker at five events spanning Maine, Québec, Louisiana, and Indiana — a month of public and...

Atim Mackin Student Leadership Fellowship Announcement

March 23, 2026

Atim has been awarded the inaugural LGBTQI+ Student Leadership Fellowship at the Carr-Ryan Center for Human Rights Policy at HKS. This summer, Atim will be working with a Paris-based NGO to support LGBTQI+ asylum seekers through French language...

Fifteen Questions: Doris Sommer on Optimism, the Role of the Humanities, and the Montessori Education

February 09, 2026

RLL Doctoral Candidate Adam Mahler named Klarman Fellow

February 05, 2026

María Luisa Parra Velasco Selected to Receive Harvard Mellon Urban Initiative Grant

September 29, 2025

Harvard Mellon Urban Initiative (HMUI) Latino Scenescapes: A Digital Mapping of the Communities in the Boston Area. In the last 15 years, the advanced courses “Spanish in the Community” (59-59H) have connected Latino and non-Latino students with the...

Alejandra Vela Martínez receives the Victoria Urbano Award in the category of Critical Essay Written by a Professor for 2025!

September 24, 2025

The jury was composed of Prof. Noel Valis, winner of the Victoria Urbano Prize for Academic Recognition; Prof. Nadina Olmedo, Presidente del Jurado and Representative of Associate Professors; and Alexandra Rodriguez Sabogal, the winner of the Award for a...