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Spring 2021: FRIT Book Presentation Series

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Join the Department of French and Italian this semester for a series of virtual book presentations and Q&A sessions hosted by faculty with recent publications in the department. These events are free and open to the public.

Wednesday, March 31, 12-1 p.m.

Dr. Jan Baetens University of Leuven, Belgium: Photonovel: A Cultural History of Forgotten Adaptations (University of Texas Press)

Dr. Paola Bonifazio, UT Austin: The Photoromance: A Feminist Reading of Popular Culture (The MIT Press).

Moderator: Vanessa Fanelli.

Wednesday, April 7, 12-1 p.m.

Dr. Cinzia Russi, UT Austin: Sicilian Elements in Andrea Camilleri's Narrative Language: A Linguistic Analysis (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press)  

Wednesday, April 14, 12-1 p.m.

Dr. Carl Blyth, UT Austin: Open Education and Second Language Learning and Teaching: The Rise of a New Knowledge Ecology (Multilingual Matters; New Perspectives On Language And Education, 87) 

Wednesday, April 21, 12-1 p.m.

Dr. Daniela Bini (UT Austin) Portrait of the Artist and His Mother in Twentieth-Century Italian Culture (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press) featuring guest respondent Dr. Millicent Marcus (Yale). Moderator: Valerio Rossi.