JAPAN is probably the only country in the world where a blind child makes faster progress in school than a normal child. The children attending the Japanese government schools for the blind take two ...

Yehuda sits with Rukhl Schaechter, editor of the Yiddish Forverts, to explore the renaissance of the Yiddish language—from ...

Prof. W. J. T. Mitchell may be the only living iconologist on the planet. He draws on ideas from ancient and modern mythology that treat pictures as living things. As a historian of cultural images, ...

For their books, Assoc. Prof. Noémie Ndiaye and Asst. Prof. Maria Anna Mariani respectively will receive the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies and for Italian Studies ...

Monika Schmid receives funding from DFG, NWO, AHRC and ESRC. There is another reason why studying a language at school will serve you well. As my new research shows, the knowledge you acquire in a ...

Modern language professors at SUNY Brockport are mobilizing against a possible downgrading of their department, a local manifestation of a national predicament for shrinking language departments at ...

The Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis) fascinate researchers and the general public alike. They remain central to debates about the nature of the genus Homo (the broad biological classification that ...

Taking place simultaneously in Berlin, London, Stockholm, New York, Boston, and Hollywood, Florida, the festival spotlights ...

The French option of the applied modern language and culture degree provides advanced study of French language and culture that directly applies to the global economy in which you’ll work. You will ...

The Undergraduate Catalog states that all students will have proficiency in a foreign language at the 202/203 level. A foreign language is understood to mean a natural language other than English. You ...

Enrollment by college students in foreign language courses dropped a record 16.6% between fall 2016 and fall 2021, according to the Modern Language Association’s (MLA) most recent census, released ...