Romance Languages and Literatures

Alice McLean

Lecturer in Romance Languages and Literatures, received a Chicago Course Connection grant from the UChicago Chicago Studies Program.

Miguel Martínez

Assistant Professor in Romance Languages and Literatures, received a 2013–14 residential fellowship at Brown University’s John Carter Brown Library.

Irena Cajkova

Lecturer in Romance Languages and Literatures, translated Matěj objevuje (Meander Publishing, 2014) and Deník kapitána Arsenia (Meander Publishing, 2014).

Philippe Desan

the Howard L. Willett Professor in Romance Languages and Literatures, published Montaigne: une biographie politique (Odile Jacob, 2014) and Cités humanistes, cités politiques (Presses de la Sorbonne, 2014), which he edited with Élisabeth Crouzet-Pavan and Denis Crouzet.

Thomas Pavel

the Gordon J. Laing Distinguished Service Professor in Romance Languages and Literatures, Comparative Literature, and the John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought, published The Lives of the Novel (Princeton University Press, 2013), which received the American Publishers’ PROSE Award in Literature and was listed as one of the best books in literary criticism of 2013 by The New Yorker.

Rocco Rubini

Assistant Professor in Romance Languages and Literatures, edited The Renaissance from an Italian Perspective: An Anthology of Essays, 1860–1968 (Longo Editore, 2014). He received a grant from UChicago’s Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society for the research project “Humanism, the Classics, and the Historical.”

Alison James

Associate Professor in Romance Languages and Literatures, edited Frontières de la Non-Fiction: Littérature, Cinéma, Arts (Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2013). She was awarded grants from UChicago’s Franke Institute for the Humanities and France Chicago Center to plan the conference Fiction/Non Fiction: The Uses and Truths of Literature. She also received a grant from the UChicago Arts Council.

Justin Steinberg

Associate Professor in Romance Languages and Literatures, published Dante and the Limits of the Law (University of Chicago Press, 2013). He received a 2013–14 research leave fellowship from UChicago Franke Institute for the Humanities and was named associate editor of the journal Dante Studies.

María Cecilia Lozada

Senior Lecturer in Romance Languages and Literatures, received a grant from the National Geographic Society’s Committee for Research and Exploration for “The Emergence of Institutionalized Male Conflict in Southern Peru.”

Frederick de Armas

the Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Service Professor in Romance Languages and Literatures and Comparative Literature, received the Consolider Grant (Spain) for “Patrimonio teatral clasico espanol.” He was elected Honorary President of the Early Modern Text and Image Society and was invited by Queen Sofia of Spain to present his research.

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