UC-Irvine Department of European Languages & Studies

Check out the Vogue feature on French Studies major, Arielle Sidney. Last summer, while in quarantine, she taught herself how to sew. Her creations have since taken TikTok by storm. Below, she shares the inspiration for her looks and why repurposing is important to her.

This Winter 2021 take Italian 150: Italian Renaissance Epic! Course description: https://www.humanities.uci.edu/els/italian/courses.php

Aimez-vous la France? Do you love France? Enroll in the new course offered this winter quarter where you can learn more about transatlantic problems and part...nerships past, present and future! Acquire knowledge of this beautiful country before your journey abroad Do not miss this opportunity

Join us on Wednesday, December 2nd at 1pm for an Italian Studies at UCI zoom seminar titled Sexism and the Italian Language with Prof. Annalisa Somma, University of Birmingham, UK

Are you a Spanish speaker? This class is designed just for you: Italian for Spanish Speakers 1AB in Winter 2021 MWF

Prof. John Smith has launched a database dedicated to German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: https://www.humanities.uci.edu//calendar/story_details.php

Every Thursday 11:50-12:50pm join us for Italian Theater Lab on zoom

Every Friday 3-4pm on Zoom join us for Caffè Italiano for fun activities with your peers

On October 5, Ruth Kluger, Distinguished Professor emerita of German, passed away. She was a prominent scholar of German literature and culture who was widely celebrated for her memoir, weiter leben. Eine Jugend (1992), which she translated from German into English as Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered (2001). It chronicles her life as a child in concentration camps during the Holocaust and in occupied Germany after the war, as well as her later life as a U.S. academic. Her memoir is taught in university courses throughout the U.S., including at UC Irvine. Through her writing and teaching, she has touched the lives of many, including countless Anteaters. Gail K. Hart, professor of German, shares Kluger's amazing life and impact below.

Teaming up with world-renowned scholars, Jane O. Newman, professor of comparative literature at UCI, has co-edited the timely collection, Refugee Routes: Tellin...g, Looking, Protesting, Redressing (Columbia University Press, 2020). The collection features contributions from a range of scholars who illuminate both historical and contemporary examples of refugees, asylum seekers, exiles and forced migrants as individual subjects with memories, hopes, needs, rights and a prospective place in collective memory. Read our Q&A with Newman below. Read here: https://www.humanities.uci.edu//calendar/story_details.php

Learn Italian this academic year with Intermediate Italian Studies 2ABC!

Learn Italian this academic year with Italian Studies Fundamentals 1ABC!

Dive into the fun and adventurous world of Boccacio's The Decameron this fall! Deanna Shemek, director of Italian studies, is teaching a course, Italian 150 - "...The Decameron," dedicated to the classic collection of novellas. Set in 1348, the characters shelter in place outside of disease-ridden Florence, telling tales of love, lust, comedy, and tragedy to pass the time and offering insight into the Black Plague and its effects on society. Time: Tuesday/Thursday, 3:30 - 4:50 p.m. Course code: 28886

Learn Italian this Fall 2020 with this hybrid Italian 1A course!!

Xuxu Song, a Ph.D. candidate in German, received a graduate research fellowship for a year in Germany from the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst. This fell...owship will help her research on the Athenaeum (1798-1800), a journal of early German romanticism. In her dissertation, Song asks how the journal could be understood differently if we look at it as a work on its own rather than studying its individual contributions. Song says this project will not only offer a new perspective on early German romanticism, but also help us understand how radical the Athenaeum is with its numerous genres and continual production, which will lead us to a different notion of what constitutes a work of art. During the current world crisis, Song believes the spirit of collaboration and collectiveness embraced by the romantics is even more relevant. While COVID-19 has postponed her travels, she is expecting to travel to Germany by April 2021.

Study Italian at UCI! Take a look at the Italian Curriculum for 2020-2021.

What can we learn about COVID-19 from past stories about pandemics? In this episode of "COVID-19: The Humanities Respond," Tyrus Miller, dean of the School of Humanities at UCI, interviews Deanna Shemek, professor of Italian, and Zina Giannopoulou, associate professor of classics.

Expand your worldview and dive into all things Italian with the Italian Studies Program! The Italian Studies Program offers courses teaching the Italian languag...e and classes taught in English on various subjects related to Italy from film to literature and history. Not only do some of these courses fulfill a GE or language requirement, they can also help you complete a minor in Italian studies. Learn more about the Italian Studies Program and how to add a minor in Italian studies here: https://www.humanities.uci.edu/els/italian/

Enroll in Italian Studies at UCI!

Happy birthday to the late photographer and filmmaker Chris Marker, born today on Camera Day! Associated with the French New Wave, Marker’s most popular films a...re A Grin Without a Cat, Sans Soleil and La Jetéehere is a still from the iconic sci-fi movie, a tale of time travel told in still images. See more