Languages, Literatures, and Cultures - School of Arts & Sciences

Master a language. Live in that language and its culture and learn to think differently. Study complex global social and ethical issues through literature and film. This is what the faculty of LLC offers you in Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, and Russian.

Language of Covid Symposium

For two years now, the global pandemic of Covid-19 has been lived as a global phenomenon that has drawn in not only international institutions such as WHO, the UN, the EU, but also has necessitated the application of both general and local interventions. This conference explores the debates and discussions on the ways the Covid-19 pandemic was lived, dealt with, and mitigated by various cultures and languages.

The Language of Covid Symposium will consist of addresses, expert panels, and artistic screenings and a performance.

LEARN MORE ABOUT THE SYMPOSIUM SCHEDULE, PANELISTS, AND PRESENTATIONS.

All events are free-of-charge and offered in-person or remote.

Celebrating Our 2020 Graduates!

African Film Weekend

The African Film Weekend screens new and original African films each fall to celebrate African culture on the continent and the Diaspora through cinema. The 2019 African Film Weekend, presented September 20-22, will be themed "Where is Home After Migrating?" Visit the event's website for a listing of films and accompanying lectures.

Feature Stories

Student research results in online exhibition featuring ancient coins

For the past semester, Laposata has examined coins from the eastern Mediterranean which stemmed from research for his honors history thesis.

A&S hosts Contested Spaces event about walls and borders around the world

On February 28th in the Richmond Room, the departments of history, sociology & anthropology, and languages, literatures, and cultures hosted a scholarly conference entitled “Walls, Borders, and Partitions in Global Perspective.” The conference was held as part of this year’s Contested Spaces in which the 2019-20 focal point is “This Ground.”

Colby College history professor to give talk on Russian engineering

On November 14th, Paul Josephson, a history professor at Colby College, will give a talk entitled “Putin’s Nostalgia for the Soviet Union.” A specialist in the history of technology and environmental history, Josephson has written several books including Red Atom: Soviet Nuclear Policy from Stalin until Today (2000); An Environmental History of Russia (2013); The Conquest of the Arctic (2014), and, most recently, “Putin’s Projects: The Russian Empire, Resources and Technology in the 21stCentury” (forthcoming).

University of Richmond to Spotlight South African Culture During International Week 2018

South African films and photos, as well as a Bok Walk and Illuminated Tree Walk will be featured during The University of Richmond’s campus-wide celebration of International Education Week November 12-16.

3 Students receive prized State Dept. language scholarshipsThree Spiders are heading overseas with U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarships. Learn more in Spider Pride

Richmonder and recent University of Richmond graduate awarded Fulbright to teach English in Malaysia

Tim Gruber of Richmond has received a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship, which he will complete in Malaysia January through November 2019.

University of Richmond student Rylin McGee awarded international Gilman scholarship for study abroad in Russia

University of Richmond junior Rylin McGee, of Rochester, New York, has received a Gilman scholarship.

Illustration by Katie McBride

Rays of LifeAn except from Dr. Yvonne Howell's recently edited collection of Russian and Soviet science fiction, Red Star Tales. Read More

Matt DiCintio, '00When Matt DiCintio, ’00, began researching early American tavern performances, he expected to find advertisements for short plays. Instead, he found a strongwoman. And then a lion. Similar characters and animals kept appearing. That’s when DiCintio, a history buff with “a taste for the bizarre and offbeat,” knew he’d found the subject of his doctoral dissertation. Read More

Recent University of Richmond graduate awarded Fulbright grant to teach English in Ukraine

Taylor Johnson, a history and Russian studies double major who graduated from the University of Richmond earlier this month, has received a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant grant.

2017 A&S Student Symposium

At the A&S Student Symposium, student researchers share the results of their self-directed projects in the arts, humanities, sciences, and social sciences.

Senior awarded Fulbright grant to teach English in Germany

University of Richmond senior Ryan McEvoy of Brooklyn, N.Y., has received a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant grant.

Ryan McEvoy, '17

Ryan McEvoy, '17, explores different cultures and religions through his classes, research, and study abroad.

French Film Festival 25th Anniversary

The founders of the French Film Festival reflect on how the Festival has grown.

Richmond hosts Wim Wenders conference

As part of the Tucker-Boatwright Festival, scholars from all over the world gathered in Richmond to discuss Wenders’ contributions to cinema

Faculty Highlights

Gao Published
Gengsong Gao, associate professor of Chinese studies, published the book A Novel Approach to China What China Debaters Can Learn from Contemporary Chinese Novelists.
Gao Published
Gengsong Gao, associate professor of Chinese studies, published "Post-Tiananmen Chinese Liberal Intellectuals' Political Uses of Confucian Tradition and Chinese History" in the Journal of Contemporary China.
Gao Published
Gengsong Gao, assistant professor of Chinese studies, and Dan Chen, assistant professor of political science, published an article titled "The transgressive rhetoric of standup comedy in China" in Critical Discourse Studies.
Weist Awarded

Caroline Weist, Assistant Professor of German Studies, was named one of four ASTR Research Fellowship winners this year for her book project, "Refiguring Volkskörper: Disability and Critical Corporeality on the Twentieth-Century German Stage."
Lookingbill Awarded for Habitat Ecology Dr. Todd Lookingbill has received the 2019 Distinguished Service Award by the U.S. Regional Association of the International Association for Landscape Ecology.
Skromne Publishes on Spinal Cord Development Dr. Isaac Skromne: Cdx4 regulates the progression of neural maturation in the spinal cord. Developmental Biology, 2019, vol 499, pages 132-142 Co-authors: Piyush Joshi and Andrew J. Darr.
Barney Awarded Ecroyd Teaching Excellence Award Dr. Timothy Barney was awarded the prestigious Ecroyd Teaching Excellence Award by the Eastern Communication Association at their recent convention in Providence.
Winiarski awarded NEH Stipend
Dr. Douglas Winiarski has been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend of $6,000 for Shakers & the Shawnee Prophet: A Microhistory of Religious Violence on the Early American Frontier, 1805–1815.
Spera Wins Climate Change Fellowship
Dr. Stephanie Spera has been awarded the Second Century Stewardship Research Fellowship at Acadia National Park for Climate Change, Fall Foliage and Leaf-Peepers: Effects of Precipitation and Temperature on Senescence and Visitation in Acadia National Park.
Barney Receive Rockefeller Funding Dr. Timothy Barney has received a grant from the Rockefeller Archive Center for Mapping the Foundations: US Philanthropy in a Cold War World, 1947-1991, in partnership with Dr. Nicole Sackley. This project also recently received $10,000 in start up funds from the Provost's CIE initiative.

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Contact Us

Mailing Address
Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Carole Weinstein International Center
211 Richmond Way
University of Richmond, VA 23173

Phone: (804) 289-8096
Fax: (804) 287-6446

Department Chair: Dr. Kasongo Kapanga
Academic Administrative Coordinator: June Wise

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