The ROML GSO is happy to announce its next colloquium. Join our students to help them train and give them feedback on their research. Featuring Jean Costa and Anaïs Jandot.

We are pleased to announce that Mélanie Hélin-Longayrou has successfully defended her master's thesis entitled “Des Accents d’Occitan: L’influence de l’occitan sur la prononciation des voyelles nasales en français méridional" in which she argues for Occitan influence in the distinctive Southern French pronunciation of nasal vowels.

Félicitations, Mélanie!

Diana Ranson

Catherine Jones

Gary Baker

Interdisciplinary International Conference with Keynote Speakers:

Elizabeth Jelin, Pilar Calveiro & Fernando Reati

Program with session information, event times and locations

The idea of cinema as an art is one born of cinephilia. While the term simply means “love of cinema,” cinephilia sets itself apart from the average film fan’s love of stars, spectacle, and popular genres, seeking out more challenging and complex pleasures.

Congratulations to Bethany Bateman on the successful defense of her doctoral dissertation. Bethany’s dissertation, entitled “Contact-induced subjectivization in the compound past: an examination of PP/PRET variation in Cusco Spanish,” examines past reference among monolingual and bilingual speakers of Andean Spanish in Cusco, Peru. The committee was impressed with the clarity of Bethany’s research and the important implications it presents for our understanding of contact-induced language change. We look forward to hearing much more as this exciting research agenda evolves.