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April 13, 2015
Dear Colleagues, The news is out!  Please join me in congratulating Maurice Samuels, who has been awarded a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship for 2015-2016  for his project...
February 20, 2015
The Translator Relay: Alyson Waters By Rachel Morgenstern-Clarren   Our “Translator Relay” series features a new interview each month. This month’s translator will...
February 18, 2015
See Yale News article here
Reda Kateb (left) and Viggo Mortensen in Loin des hommes
February 17, 2015
Today, Albert Camus is still alive but changed, thanks to the art of David Oelhoffen and Kamel Daoud. Albert Camus, once decried as the symbol of reactionary French Algeria...
December 19, 2014
Can a 3D printer interpret literature? How many steps would it take to translate art into code? Can you really build an object using a metaphoric literary excerpt? In 19th...
December 1, 2014
Benjamin Mappin-Kasirer Quebec, 2015 Current place of residence: Montreal, QC University:  McGill University, Yale University Current/recent course:  Doctor of Medicine (In...
October 9, 2014
To the Faculty, Students, and Friends of the Department: The Yale Department of French congratulates Patrick Modiano on winning the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature “for the...