About Us

Romance Studies is a multilingual, interdisciplinary, and genuinely global department that explores the culture, thought, and practices of communities where romance languages — French, Haitian Creole, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish — are or were once spoken.

Our department has an expansive reach through many centers, programs, and sites located at Durham and around the globe, including:

Affiliated Centers & Programs
Global Education Programs

Our faculty mentor and guide our students from their initial steps in learning the basics of the language to their intellectual and professional engagement with native cultures and their speakers. While our discipline is rooted in the philological and literary methods, Romance Studies’ excellent faculty specializes in health humanities, critical race studies, decoloniality, intellectual history, translation, visual studies, service learning, gender and sexuality studies, modernism, critical economics, and linguistic rights, among others, all studied through a rigorous frame. Using these critical lenses, we also help students understand and find viable, collaborative, and sustainable solutions to pressing global issues that communities face, such as healthcare, education, and human rights.

 

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Address & Location

Department of Romance Studies
205 Language Building
West Campus
Campus Box 90257
Durham, N.C. 27708

919-660-3102 (phone)
919-684-4029 (fax)