French Immersion Program: A New Initiative

Discussions on French Immersion Programs in Madison The Center for Interdisciplinary French Studies was pleased to host Consul Général Guillaume Lacroix and the Science Attaché James Dat on their second visit to Madison. During his …

Dr. Subha Xavier: “Wretched of the Sea”

Subha Xavier is Associate Professor of French at the Institute of African Studies at Emory University. Author of The Migrant Text: Making and Marketing a Global French Literature (McGill-Queen’s UP, 2016), Dr. Xavier presented a …

French Delegation visits Madison

In early March 2019, the CIFS welcomed a delegation of graduate students and faculty from IAE in Aix-en-Provence for a study tour focusing on business in the US context. The students had a busy week …

Andrew Irving honored by French Consul

On October 19, Professor Andrew Irving was awarded a distinct honor at the French House Centennial Gala. In recognition of his outstanding service and dedication to French language education, Professor Irving received L’Ordre des Palmes …

French House Centennial

The French House just turned 100! With more than 2000 undergraduate residents over the years, scores of conferences and lectures hosted, and who knows how many baguettes and boeuf bourguignons enjoyed, what was once just …

UW-Madison French Alumni Publish New Textbook

Elizabeth Berglund Hall, Anne Theobald, and Mark Hall, all UW-Madison French Ph.D. alumni, are co-authors (with James Pfrehm, German) of TEXTURES, a new textbook from Yale University Press supporting the transition from language to literature …