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  • Congratulations to Eva Glancy

    June 03, 2021

    Congratulations to Eva Glancy recipient of the 2021 Alumni Horizon Award

  • In the Footsteps of Enayat al-Zayyat

    May 19, 2021

    Iman Mersal (Arts) discusses her award-winning book on the life of an Egyptian poet.

  • Congratulations our 2021 Faculty of Arts Awards recipients

    May 17, 2021

  • Tribute to Dr. Anne Malena on her Retirement

    May 12, 2021

  • Iman Mersal Wins 2021 Sheikh Zayed Book Award

    April 23, 2021

    Congratulations to faculty member Iman Mersal (Modern Languages & Cultural Studies) for winning the 2021 Sheikh Zayed Book Award in the "literature" category! Her 2019 work of creative nonfiction, Fee Athar Enayat Al Zayyat (In the Footsteps of Enayat Al-Zayyat), explores the life of Egyptian writer Enayat al-Zayyat. The piece illuminates the challenges of writing while female, of attitudes toward mental health, and life in mid-20th-century Egypt.

  • Sofia Monzón Rodriguez recipient of the People's Choice award 2021

    April 07, 2021

    Sofia Monzón, PhD Transnational and Comparative Literatures, tied to win the People's Choice award for the Images of Research competition.

  • Dr. Bohdan Medwidsky

    March 29, 2021

    It is with profound sadness that we announce the passing of the founder and benefactor of the Kule Folklore Centre and the Bohdan Medwidsky Ukrainian Folklore Archives.

  • Congratulations to our 2020 COVID Remote Teaching Award recipients

    March 10, 2021

    We are thrilled to announce that three of our MLCS members, Houssem Ben Lazreg, Mimi Okabe and Natalie Van Deusen are recipients of the University of Alberta 2020 Covid-19 Remote Teaching Award.

  • 1200 new German words unique to the pandemic

    March 04, 2021

    Claudia Kost, Associate Professor, gave an interview on CBC radio to talk about all the new words that are created in the German language during the pandemic. Click here to listen.

  • Congratulations to Claudia Kost and Crystal Sawatzky

    March 04, 2021

    Claudia Kost, Associate Professor, and Crystal Sawatzky, German Instructor, submitted their academic poster "A Task-Based First-Year Blended Learning German Language OER at the University of Alberta" to the Festival of Teaching and Learning Academic poster contest. Their poster was voted as one of three posters that the University of Alberta teaching community has expressed an interest in learning more about in a Q and A session.

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