Student Profile: Casey Swann ’12 (Video Feature)

Casey Swann '12 spoke to me a few days before graduation this May about her self-designed Italian Studies major, her study abroad research in Rome, Italy, and about her plans … [Read More]

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Student Profile: Kelly Houck ’12 (Video Feature)

Kelly Houck '12 sat down with me a couple of days before graduation to talk about her experiences in the Arabic program at the College, her study abroad in Morocco, and what … [Read More]

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Student Profile: Bridget Carr ’12 (Video Feature)

Bridget Carr, one of our graduating seniors in French and Francophone Studies, was kind enough to sit down and talk with us right after she defended her Senior Honors Thesis … [Read More]

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Graduation 2012 Photo Gallery

Modern Languages  and Literatures and Global Studies Graduates celebrated with family, friends, and faculty on Saturday and Sunday, May 12 and 13, in graduation ceremonies at … [Read More]

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William and Mary Students Present at UVA Slavic Forum

On March 17, four Russian Studies students – along with professors John Lyles, Alexander Prokhorov, Elena Prokhorova, filmmaker-in-residence Jes Therkelsen, and Russian … [Read More]

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Student Profile: Jacob Lassin ’12 (Video Feature)

Jacob Lassin recently won the American Council of Teachers of Russian’s (ACTR) Post Secondary Russian Scholar Laureate Award. This award, according to the ACTR newsletter, … [Read More]

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“Writing on the Wall” – Understanding Today’s German Society through a Study of the Representations of the Berlin Wall in Literature, Art, and Music

In November 1989, pictures of jubilating East and West Germans dancing on the Berlin Wall went around the world. Chanting “We are the people”, East Germans had demanded … [Read More]

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After the Quake: Student Research on the 2011 Japanese Earthquake

On March 11 last year, northeastern Japan was struck by a threefold catastrophe—a massive, 9.0 magnitude earthquake, an devastating tsunami, and level-seven nuclear … [Read More]

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Professor Regina Root Wins Award

Professor Regina Root’s book Couture and Consensus: Fashion and Politics in Postcolonial Argentina was recently awarded the Middle Atlantic Council of Latin American … [Read More]

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William & Mary opens Confucius Institute

by Beth Stefanik and Megan Shearin The College of William & Mary officially opened its Confucius Institute on Monday, April 16, with a day-long celebration of events … [Read More]

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Spring 2012 Issue

elcome to the Spring 2012 issue of Global Voices, the News and Events pages for the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at the College of William & Mary. With this issue we are introducing a new theme. We will now be devoting most of the Spring issue of the Newsletter to our graduating seniors and the Fall issue will be devoted largely to Department news and Faculty bios.  This issue features interviews with graduating seniors in Arabic Studies (Kelly Houck ’12), French and Francophone Studies (Bridget Carr ’12), Italian Studies (Casey Swann ’12), and Russian Studies (Jacob Lassin ’12). We’ve also got a great Graduation 2012 Image Gallery with pictures from graduation. As always, we love to hear from you, so please send your news, updates, comments, and questions to modern-languages@wm.edu. Watch an excerpt from the MLL Graduation Ceremony:

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