Welcome to the Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics at Florida State University.

The department offers graduate and undergraduate students unique opportunities for language and culture study. From language classes in Arabic or Hebrew, to culture classes in Chinese, German, Italian, and Japanese, to degree programs in areas including French, Slavic, and Spanish, the department prepares students for a variety of educational and future career opportunities.

Visit the language division sites on the menu bar to the left for more information on specific programs, or click on the links above for general information. The following professors currently lead the department:

Professor William J. Cloonan
Chair and Professor of French

Professor Reinier Leushuis
Associate Chair for Graduate Studies

Professor Noémie Parrat
Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies

• Required Text Books

• Reinier Leushuis & Christian Weber are presenting during the inter-disciplinary symposium on the concept of “Genius” on Friday, Feb. 12, 2010, sponsored by the FSU Libraries, the Friends of the FSU Libraries, and the FSU Center for the Humanities. More ...
• Lisa Ryoko Wakamiya explores the writing of returned exiled writers in her new book, Locating Exiled Writers in Contemporary Russian Literature (Palgrave, 2009). More...
  
• Gretchen Sunderman and fellow researchers published findings in the current issue of Psychological Science showing that language immersion impedes access to one's native language (12/09). More...
• The Eastern Europe of My Parents:   Hope and Turmoil, 1913-1996,  Dr. Rado Pribic Lafayette College Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures.
  Monday, October 12 5:00 p.m. Diffenbaugh 009. - More ...
  
• Maysa Abu Ammar, a Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant (FLTA) in Arabic, writes about her experience at Florida State University and says: "This past year has been one of the best years of my life". -- Read the whole article in the Fulbright FLTA Newsletter.
• Janet Gomez and Renata Redford Selected for European School of Comparative Studies Conference. More ...
• Mark Pietralunga is a 2009 recipient of the Florida State University Teaching Award.
• Melinda Thacker (German) is the recipient of the 2009 Bess Ward Honors Thesis Award. - More ...
• Juan Carlos Galeano receives Florida State University’s Council on Research and Creativity (CRC) Small Grant Proposal award for “Researching Oral Narratives in the Rio Negro Region of Brazil” (Spring 2009)
• Tallahassee Democrat, front page (3/23/09): "Scholar Ray Fleming brings passion to FSU classroom." - Read the whole article, and see Ray in action. - More ...
• Naida Saavedra (Spanish) featured by the Florida State International center. - More...

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