a message from the department chair
Welcome to the Department of French and Italian at the University of Southern California. Our faculty members are collectively committed to working across disciplinary and national boundaries—and indeed to rethinking disciplinarity itself in innovative ways. As a department, we emphasize the global resonance of French and Italian Studies in addition to the impact of literature and film on cultural, political, social, and environmental contexts. The interests of our faculty range across contemporary literary theory and philosophy, Francophone cinema and culture, Italian and French modernity, Renaissance intellectual and cultural life, and early modern thought and narrative. We work in close collaboration with the Francophone Research and Resource Center, part of a national network of pluridisciplinary centers, which sustains physical and intellectual spaces for the critical exchange of ideas and facilitates the visit of Francophone and French writers, critics, scholars, artists, and filmmakers to USC. Through support from the Center, and through faculty initiatives sponsored by programs including the College Commons, Visions and Voices, the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute and the Shoah Foundation Institute, we regularly reach out to students and colleagues throughout the university, and to the wider Southern Californian community as a whole. MORE
department news
SPRING 2010 SELECTED COURSE OFFERINGS IN FRENCH AND ITALIAN
FALL 2009 SELECTED COURSE OFFERINGS IN FRENCH AND ITALIAN
events
Meet USC 
November 23 - December 21 Campus visit program for high school juniors, seniors in their fall semester, and their families. |
| Meet USC
November 23 - December 21 Campus visit program for high school juniors, seniors in their fall semester, and their families. |
| Potential Effects of Climate Change on Southern Ocean Top Predators
November 24 Speaker: Dr. Daniel Costa of UC Santa Cruz. His seminar will examine his recent work in the Antarctic Peninsula in terms of habitat utilization patterns and how that is likely to change with a changing climate |