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Unlock New Skills This Summer: Explore our 2025 Course Offerings

Gain ground and earn UMD credits through convenient 3 and 6-week summer sessions.

February 14, 2025 Language House, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

Love Speaks Every Language

These SLLC students met their spouses while studying language.

February 11, 2025 School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

Foreign language studies are overlooked. A mandate would change that.

After spending a summer immersed in Jaipur, India, one University of Maryland student argues that language learning isn’t just a personal skill—it’s a global necessity.

January 15, 2025 School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

The 10 Best Books of 2024

The staff of The New York Times Book Review chooses the year’s top fiction and nonfiction, including Álvaro Enrigue's "You Dreamed of Empires".

October 29, 2024 Cinema and Media Studies, College of Arts and Humanities, French, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

Exploring French Art and Film: Brendan Berger’s ‘Life-Changing’ Year Abroad

The senior French and film student took in art at renowned museums and attended the Cannes Film Festival.

October 14, 2024 English, History, Russian, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

2024-2025 Maya Brin Resident Maxim Osipov

The Maya Brin Residency Program is thrilled to announce the visit of Maxim Osipov.

October 10, 2024 Communication, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Spanish and Portuguese

2024 Mark and Heather Rosenker Lecture featuring Joe Mazza

Joe Mazza presents "Enduring Words" for the 2024 Rosenker Lecture

September 17, 2024 School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Spanish and Portuguese

Honoring ‘Las Muertes’

Ana Patricia Rodríguez and two of her students highlight how D.C.’s Salvadoran diaspora uses art to grapple with painful past in new documentary

June 12, 2024 School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Persian

PERS 251 / HIST219: Student research reflects study in Iranian modernity

A digital exhibit of student work created for PERS251 / HIST219

June 07, 2024 Arabic

Four Arabic Flagship Students Win Prestigious 2024–25 ARHU Boren Scholarships

The students will embark on two semesters of immersive language study in Meknes, Morocco.

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Bonnie Thornton Dill, Longtime Dean of UMD’s College of Arts and Humanities, to Step Down this Spring

April 12, 2022 American Studies, Art, Art History and Archaeology, Classics, Communication, English, David C. Driskell Center for the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora, History, Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, School of Music, School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, Linguistics, Philosophy

The pioneering scholar of intersectionality helped usher in a more diverse faculty, power up collaboration and research and launch interdisciplinary, arts-tech centered programs.

Upcoming Roshan Institute Events

April 11, 2022 School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Roshan Institute for Persian Studies

Join the Roshan Institute community for these exciting events!

The Diamondback

How Language instructors are creating a gender-inclusive Hebrew

April 01, 2022 Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

Every language in the world has a different relationship with gender. English sits with Finnish and Chinese with no grammatical gender, while the most commonly spoken languages in Europe and some in the Middle East use gender to classify their nouns.

Summer Language Courses Online May 31 - August 19, 2022

March 30, 2022 School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

Gain ground and earn UMD credits through these convenient summer sessions. Classes meet online. Current UMD students simply register. All other students must first apply.

2021-2022 Maya Brin Resident Aleksandr Skidan

March 25, 2022 Russian

The Maya Brin Residency Program is pleased to welcome Aleksandr Skidan

The Cinephile New Wave Podcast

Professors Arsenjuk, Federici and Resmini interviewed about Cinema Ritrovato On Tour

March 24, 2022 School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Cinema and Media Studies, Italian

Cinefile New Wave Podcast

Elisa Gironzetti Publishes a New Book

March 21, 2022 School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

The Multimodal Performance of Conversational Humor

German Studies Professor Dr. Baer authors a new book

March 17, 2022 School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

Dr. Baer explores the aesthetic and theoretical importance of the 1968 German Film The Cat Has Nine Lives.

International Women Day event at the Italian Embassy with our students

March 11, 2022 School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Italian

Students of Italian participated in a special event at the Italian Embassy with the Honorable Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of U.S. House of Representatives. The event was officiated by the Ambassador of Italy in the United States, Mariangela Zappia.