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School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

Meet the Eight Language Students Awarded $10,000 in Scholarships

Students prepare for careers in translation, counseling psychology, medicine, linguistics and microbiology informed by language studies and study abroad.

February 07, 2024 Korean, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

“A national scholarship? I’m just Alyssa from Frederick!”

Meet Alyssa Taylor '24—she spent the 2022-23 school year in Korea as a Gilman scholar at Seoul National University. Now, she's connecting students to their own study abroad journeys as a Global Learning Ambassador for Education Abroad.

January 23, 2024 Russian, School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

2024 Maya Brin Artist-in-Residence Mikhail Durnenkov

The Maya Brin Residency Program is proud to announce Artist-in-Residence, Mikhail Durnenkov, who will be a visiting faculty member in the SLLC and the TDPS for the Spring 2024 semester.

November 20, 2023 Spanish and Portuguese, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, College of Arts and Humanities

Spanish Professor Retakes the Stage

Concert in Chile to reunite his influential 1990s rap group.

November 13, 2023 French, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

French Program Alumni receives $50,000 grant for research on Haitian women’s literature

Dr. Cae Joseph-Masséna will use her year-long research fellowship from American Association of University Women to work on her first book manuscript.

November 09, 2023 School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, College of Arts and Humanities, Russian

Trampoline Gymnast Jumps to the Top

Undergrad heads to world championships with Olympic berth on the line.

September 22, 2023 School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, School of Music, American Studies, College of Arts and Humanities, English, The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, History, Douglass Center

Breaking the M.O.L.D. Launches Second Cohort for Leaders of Color and Women in Higher Ed

The Mellon Foundation-funded initiative prepares underrepresented arts and humanities faculty at three Maryland universities for leadership roles.

June 06, 2023 School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

The SLLC Celebrates its Fall 2022 and Spring 2023 Graduates

The School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures (SLLC) at the University of Maryland recently held its Spring 2023 Commencement Ceremony, honoring the achievements of its undergraduate and graduate students.

May 22, 2023 History, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

Paulina Leder ’23 Named Undergrad Researcher of the Year

The triple major explored filmmaker’s striving for artistic freedom in East Germany.

March 16, 2023 School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Russian

2023 Maya Brin Resident Liudmila Novikova

The Maya Brin program brings leading Russian cultural figures to the University of Maryland for short term stays.

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Inauguration of the José Emilio Pacheco Series

December 17, 2016 School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Spanish and Portuguese

Inauguration of the José Emilio Pacheco Distinguished Lecture Series

Dr. Hernán Sánchez M. de Pinillos at the Library of Congress

November 16, 2016 Spanish and Portuguese

On October 21 professor Hernán Sánchez Martínez de Pinillos presented a lecture on Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra at the Library of Congress as part of the library’s celebration of Cervantes’ life and work.

2016-17 Scholarship Recipients

November 15, 2016 American Studies, Classics, College of Arts and Humanities, Communication, English, History, Linguistics, Philosophy, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Chinese, French, Romance Languages, Russian, Spanish and Portuguese, School of Music, School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

ARHU is pleased to announce the 2016-17 Senior Scholars, Scholarship Recipients and Freshmen Scholars.

Lecture and "Tricks of the Trade" with Javier Uriarte

November 04, 2016 Spanish and Portuguese

Professor Javier Uriarte will be visiting the Department to give a presentation followed by an informal discussion

"Cortar y Pegar": An Event with Professor Antonia Viu

November 04, 2016 Spanish and Portuguese

Professor Antonia Viu of the Adolfo Ibáñez University (Chile) gave a talk at the University of Maryland.

Walter Mangold Series by Dr. Saúl Sosnowski

October 24, 2016 Spanish and Portuguese

Dr. Saúl Sosnowski is the 2016 Walter Mangold Visiting Scholar at the University of Melbourne, Australia.

Anthology of Spanish American Thought and Culture

October 24, 2016 Spanish and Portuguese

Jorge Aguilar Mora has published the Anthology of Spanish American Thought and Culture

Alumni Spotlight: Paul Wlodkowski

October 20, 2016 School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, German Studies

German Studies and Engineering Major 2015

Important New Developments in Arabographic OCR

October 05, 2016 Arabic, Arabic Flagship, Roshan Institute for Persian Studies, Persian

Important New Developments in Arabographic Optical Character Recognition (OCR)

2016 Maya Brin Residents: Valera and Natasha Cherkashin

September 27, 2016 School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Russian

The Maya Brin Residency Program is pleased to welcome the Russian artists Valera and Natasha Cherkashin