Modern Languages Faculty

Alison Rini FCRH ’21 was featured in The Fordham Ram for her research project, “Mapping Ethnic Histories of the Bronx,” that she conducted in Fall 2018 on the Bronx Italian American History Initiative and the Bronx African American History Project. Using these oral history archives to map personal stories of multi-ethnic encounters in the Bronx, Rini created a digital map using […]

We are excited to host Getty Photo Journalist Misha Friedman to discuss his inspired work-THE IDEALISTS-on the transformation of the police force in Ukraine. In the early 2000s, there were almost no female police officers. Now women comprise 25% of the force is female, including the deputy interior minister and the national police chief. Read […]

Fordham College at Rose Hill February 18 at 3:47 PM ·  Today’s Who Do You Love nominee is Professor Patricia Romero. Professor Romero is a Spanish instructor here at FCRH. As one student said, “She genuinely cares about her students inside and outside the classroom. She not only cares about our education, but our well-being as […]

Students interested in pursuing internship, employment, and volunteer opportunities related to modern languages, linguistics, and literatures should consult the organizations listed below. ARABIC Council on Foreign Relations. CFR’s volunteer internships give selected volunteer interns the opportunity to receive training in the area of foreign policy; as well as skills training in areas such as writing, […]

On Tuesday November 27, professors Alessandro Daniele and Alessia Valfredini led a “lezione di cucina” (cooking class) in which they demonstrated (and had the students engage in) cooking pasta alla puttanesca, in a vegetarian and more traditional, anchovy-laden version. Students raved about the results. The event was made possible by the generous sponsorship of Aramark and […]

SPAN 3770, Cultures of Memory and Postmemory in Contemporary Chile, is now accepting students. This course will explore artifacts and movements of Chile’s cultural memory—literature, criticism, film, photography, and other media—that illuminate efforts to come to terms with the country’s dictatorial past. We will also discuss these artifacts in light of the idea of “postmemory”: […]

Please join us for this talk by Cecily Raynor of McGill University at 4:00 pm on Monday, November 19: “Digital Transhispania: Reading and Writing Towards Other Worlds.” Dr. Raynor has been doing groundbreaking work on the digital humanities in the Spanish-speaking and Lusophone worlds, and will speak to us about her research on cultural formation and communities […]