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LLC Newsletter Fall 2025

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Welcome to the Fall Newsletter

Welcome to the Fall Newsletter

Friday June 13, 2025

This edition offers a snapshot of the department’s activities, including student engagement, innovative research, teaching initiatives, and accomplishments by our faculty and staff. This Fall semester has been a period of transition marked by new arrivals. Since stepping into my role as Chair of the Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Department, I have been deeply grateful […]
New Staff and Faculty

New Staff and Faculty

Friday June 13, 2025

Sam Jones, Administrative Specialist and Office Manager has been working for UF since 2021 and recently joined our department as the Administrative Specialist. “I’m a transplant from south Florida who came up to visit and never left! Gainesville is such a great place to live, and the university is full of wonderful faculty and staff […]
Faculty News and Publications

Faculty News and Publications

Friday June 13, 2025

Hélène Blondeau Presented two co-authored papers on lexical and morphosyntactic variation in French spoken in Montreal and Welland, Canada, at the New Ways of Analyzing Variation conference (NWAV 52) in Miami. As part of the French for All Initiative (French in Higher Education program), and in collaboration with partners at Washington University Johns Hopkins University, […]

Learning Experiences

Friday June 13, 2025

Virtual Tabadul, Salah Algabli and Soraya Bouguettaya This Fall semester 2024, the Arabic Studies Program launched Virtual Tabadul, a unique virtual reality program that enables UF students enrolled in Arabic language courses to connect with peers in Morocco and Algeria. This initiative provided more than 82 students at UF at beginner, intermediate, and advanced levels […]
Alumni Update

Alumni Update

Friday June 13, 2025

New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV 52) in Miami Two UF Alumni, a current MA student and Dr. Blondeau were in Miami last November for the New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV 52). Modupeola Lawal, a current MA student in FFS, participated in the Project Launch poster session with her MA project Translanguaging practices and […]
Events

Events

Friday June 13, 2025

Ingrid Kleespies and Pavlo Antonenko (Professor of Educational Technology and Director of the NeurAL Lab in the School of Teaching and Learning, College of Education) welcomed a team of Ukrainian educators, local politicians, and high school students who visited the UF College of Education and P. K. Yonge on October 30. The team has worked […]

Upcoming Events

Friday June 13, 2025

Rori Bloom: The France-Florida Research Institute, a center of excellence in French studies supported by the French Embassy, is pleased to announce the following events for Spring 2025 as part of our Environmental Humanities and the Francophone World program: January 22: Dr. Jean-Luc Guichet (University of Picardie) will present a lecture entitled “Sensitivity to the […]