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DEPARTMENT OF ROMANCE LANGUAGES & LITERATURES
St. Augustine Liberal Arts Center, 303
Villanova University
800 Lancaster Avenue
Villanova, PA 19085

Greetings from the Chair

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Greetings from the Chair

Hello and welcome to the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, an exciting and vibrant community of teacher/scholars and students dedicated to the study of French and Francophone Studies, Hispanic Studies, Italian Studies and Portuguese Studies; languages, literatures and cultures that constitute the very fibers of our Western world and civilization at both sides of the Atlantic. Please come in and find out what our Department has to offer.

Dr. Mercedes Juliá
Professor and Chairperson

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Please meet our new faculty starting Fall 2013

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Professor Luca Cottini received a Ph.D in Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University (2012) and a Master’s in Italian Studies at the University of Notre Dame (2007). Trained in Italy as a classical philologist, and in the United States as a cultural historian, his interests touch upon Italian literature, visual arts, and intellectual history from the 17th to the 20th centuries.  He is currently working on a book project, in which he explores the cultural reception of industrial objects and industrialism in Italy at the turn of the 20th century.

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Professor Étienne Achille received his doctorate in French and Francophone Literatures from the University of Cincinnati. His research focuses on Francophone Caribbean and Maghrebi literatures and cultures as well as contemporary French civilization from a postcolonial perspective. Étienne’s articles are forthcoming in French Forum, Contemporary French Civilization and Nouvelles Études Francophones. His current monograph, based on his dissertation, studies literary representations of the Francophone Caribbean diaspora’s participation to the performative writing of the French nation, and reflects upon a potential evolution of the concept of nation.

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Professor Lindsay Trostle, also known as "Profe T", received her Master's degree in Linguistics with a concentration in Teaching Foreign Languages and Language, Culture, and Society from Syracuse University.   Her interdisciplinary scholarship spans the fields of second language acquisition, Spanish literature, creative writing, anthropology, eastern philosophy, and yoga therapy.  She has been teaching language since 2006 and is thrilled to be teaching at Villanova University. 

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